Pros
Pleased to join on the tipping point of old stale traditional manufacturing culture is being replaced with much more agile and professional. Really hope enough resources can be put on the table to back up such a large scale transformation and avoid a disaster of people moving faster than organisation is able to resource. Leadership team is really backing up the transformation and themselves doing good at being distruptive and leading by example.
Cons
Still some large pockets of staff not willing to take ownership of what they do and expecting things served on a silver plate. Some accumulated change fatigue, which unfortunately frequently results in old blood being replaced by new. Perhaps can be minimised by being better prepared for the changes, starting from better strategising and planning for it - can only do that with helping more senior staff offload routine or low value tasks to more helping hands (need more junior staff, workplace experience etc). Most of on site facilities could really do with renovation, only one floor with modern open design and enough breakout rooms. Considering it’s in the middle of industrial park would be great to have good quality cafe on site with decent mini-mart - something like cotton on offices have would be terrific. Public transport is not really an option - drive to work only so more covered parking would be great too.