James Hardie Building Products Employee Reviews

Great company! Great team! I love how absolutely everyone on the team achieves the highest of customer satisfaction! Special people with special talents

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James Hardie Building Products insights

Based on 217 survey responses

What people like

Ability to meet personal goals
Clear sense of purpose
Ability to learn new things

Good benefits, competitive pay, good progression

Operator (Current Employee) - Tacoma, WA - September 16, 2023

Good progression offered as Ling as you continue to tell your management what you need from them. Hazardous work with fair compensation, although the safety culture can be difficult to work with due to differing standards among leadership

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Good paying reliable job

Production Worker (Current Employee) - Pulaski, VA - September 11, 2023

James hardie is a great paying job, management is ehhh but all in all it’s a good job to have! Plenty of room for growth in the company and they use a nice certification system to help you get raises and grow more through the company, plenty of overtime if you want it as well!

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It was good until management changed.

Industrial electrician (Former Employee) - Waxahachie, TX - September 1, 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?The other people working there.What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Management, the heat and the cold.What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Hurry up, no matter what it takes.What is a typical day like for you at the company?Always hurry up and fix this equipment.

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You are treated as a kindergarten kid

Trim inspector (Former Employee) - Peru, IL - August 29, 2023

Place sucks hot in summer cold in winter. Your treated as you are in kindergarten you work 12 hour days or nights the can get mandated ot on days off

Pros

Free lunch

Cons

Mandated over time

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Not a bad place to work.

Maintenance Mechanic (Current Employee) - Pulaski, VA - August 26, 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?The pay is above average for the area. Benefits are great as well.What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Working overtime and holidays What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Good. Management has always been respectful.What is a typical day like for you at the company?Some days are laid back , some are wide open.

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work ya to death

Machine Operator/Forklift Operator (Former Employee) - Pulaski, VA - August 23, 2023

Really isn’t worth explaining I worked there’d for 3 years and when I left I never got a phone call why or anything lol I’m pretty sure HRS and plant managers don’t even know who I was lol despite being there for so long doing so much for the company’s and going Un heard eventually I left even the pays not worth my happiness and time.

Pros

Free lunch ever Friday and good pay/benifts

Cons

Long shifts, 12 hours 15 minutes 5-6 days a week, never coming off production and your interest goes in one ear out the other

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High stress,horrible working conditions,poor management

Roller hand (Former Employee) - Peru, IL - August 9, 2023

Insanely hot in summer freezing cold in winter Dirty filthy environment Management will lie to advance their own careers.Lots of pizza party's not many raises.

Pros

Good health insurance

Cons

Managers will lie and blame you for their laziness, they will lie to advance themselves, insanely hot and dirty work environment.

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Worst job ever, don't even bother applying

Operator (Former Employee) - Frederickson, WA - August 2, 2023

They don't call it James Easy for a reason. The culture is toxic and corporate management think that yelling at you makes you work harder. I was fortunate to escape this company. I truly have no clue how they stay in business.

Pros

The people I worked with

Cons

Too many to list

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Pick a shift where u can learn without them friends

Machine Technician (Former Employee) - Reno, NV - July 16, 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Pay was good my only thing is they let ppl go without notice after promises of no layoffsWhat is the most stressful part about working at the company?Trying to Advance when it's too many friends that only look out for each other if you learn more it put their friends job in jeopardy so it's slow too learn more things and if u don't learn more things you get laid offWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?It's a great place but need more diversity What is a typical day like for you at the company?Long nights stressful nights but sometimes it's easy

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Great pay and benefits

Forklift Operator (Current Employee) - Cleburne, TX - July 11, 2023

Great work environment, great leadership and improvement program for you to be able to achieve your goals within the company to climb the ranks and have a rewarding career

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Fun

General Labor (Former Employee) - Peru, IL - July 3, 2023

ABSOLUTELY loved working at James Hardie. People were fun. Made work more then just a occupation. Made it a habby. Yea I guess you can say the pay was good. But it’s doesn’t matter how much you get paid if you love what you do/did

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Production

Raw Material Handler, Rollerhand (Former Employee) - Cleburne, TX - July 1, 2023

Good people to work for great benefits and 401k great place to learn and move up . Over all grade this place at a 8 . 12.5 hour shifts you have 4 departments production , finishing, color plus, shipping and receiving

Pros

Free lunch fridays

Cons

Sometimes breaks aren’t available

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I should have never left this place

Engineer II (Former Employee) - Reno, NV - June 28, 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Good pay, they take care of their employees, and the business is guided by business rather than social movements (like some others).What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Hard work, the products are worth a lot, so mistakes are expensive.What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Rough around the edges, but at the same time accepting

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great work culture and great pay/benefits

Electrician (Current Employee) - Pulaski, VA - June 16, 2023

Been working as a electrician for 5 years, The work culture is great? Pay and benefits are competitive. Work load and schedule are in reason and direct management is competent.

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Fun but dirty

Maintenance Mechanic (Current Employee) - Peru, IL - June 14, 2023

Decent pay great team to work with. It is dirty year round especially on the raw mats / production side and also extremely hot most of the year. If you can get past that the maintenance team is awesome and fun to work with

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Great crews, mediocre pay

Operations Generalist (Current Employee) - Pulaski, VA - June 6, 2023

You will work, and the environment is high paced but very friendly. The pay is mediocre given what you have to do and the heat you are in. Opportunity to move up is there.....at certain times.

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Very unprofessional company with poor business practices

Specialist (Former Employee) - Reno, NV - June 5, 2023

I worked here for two years and three months. There was no exit interview. The culture is very bad here with little to no leadership. The company will hire anyone on the spot because they're desperate for quick labor but they can't keep people. Its a revolving door but if you need quick cash it's a good place for some temporary work. As an employee I was treated very unfairly so I wouldn't recommend this place to anybody.

Pros

Easy job, no boss, no leadership

Cons

Low pay, no work life balance, little to no time off

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its okay

Specialist II (Current Employee) - Peru, IL - June 2, 2023

lots of pros and lots of cons like everywhereHot as heck in summer, cold in winter.some opportunity to move up in company as long as you show up every day and work hard.

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Thought it was a good job until I started working there.

Machine Operator/Stacker Hand (Former Employee) - Plant City, FL - May 31, 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Nothing. They only care about production. And nothing about family and the issues that may arise at home.What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Long hours and a lot of standing.What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Very dirty and wet. Plus unsafe.What is a typical day like for you at the company?A typical day at work is a boring safety meeting.

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