Tennant reviews about "manager"

Mid-level managers / MILs are a bit overworked Schedules are tight and often unrealistic

Managers are passable. Lots of stress put on engineers to meet unrealistic deadlines (as there is with any manufacturing company) set by project managers, who will never change the schedule even if the ask is impossible. Offshore contract team is a hit or miss at being actually useful, but required to work with even if to the detriment of your work if you get one of the bad ones. Do not trust certain managers to have a spine to protect you from getting pulled in many directions in your day to day work. Communication between director level and manager level is not good and there isn't a solid vision or roadmap from the directors. Stingy vacation allotment for new engineers. Benefits are just ok.

Company bases field service technician compensation of local forklift company pay, when forklift techs have local support and less than a 1/4 of the administrative duties, internal sales duties and expectations of managing local accounts as the Tennant technician does. Tennant service techs are expected to meet and exceed sales goals all while dealing with terrible integration of technologies and unrealistic expectations. " Do more! Go Above and beyond!" Are all things you might hear all while management is giving directions under the cloak of ambiguity wanting you to charge everyone but the company for your time spent dealing with internal inefficiencies. Sales team is well compensated as account managers and paid off of service sales, but service is not treated the same although providing support to mostly technically incompetent sales staff.

Seems like a lot of new management learning how to manage! They say people is the top pillar, but developing mangers how to manage different employees should be a huge emphasis

Heavily reliant on a couple large customers;