employee of PETNET - Field Service bei PETNET Solutions: Mitarbeiterbewertung

PETNET has two types of environments you can work in. They have a corporate headquarters in Knoxville that has more holidays off and a generally better work schedule. If you work there you'll be fairly satisfied. However, the drug manufacturing is done in the field at remote laboratories. I'll be focusing mostly on the field since that is where most of the problems are located. Their IT dept is horrible and it's very difficult to update your email password if it ever lapses, unless you have a corporate laptop, since their help desk is in India and they require verification from your coworkers to issue a new password. Their electronic time card is equally bad. You'll find yourself donating any time when you work outside the lab because it's difficult to get your time updated. You don't have access to add hours and have them approved. They must be added by your manager. The time card machine is also incapable of telling you if you are currently clocked into the system, and this often leads to errors and lost pay for you. The work is at night and will always be at night, since the drug is manufactured the day before it's used. This is because it has a very short radioactive half life, so if you ever want off nights you'll have to apply for a job at corporate. The labs have a very limited holiday schedule, while corporate has a generous holiday schedule. They give you floating holidays to compensate. If you work at corporate you can have Christmas with your family, but if you work in the labs you can have Christmas in July. Many of the labs run at least six days a week, but some have ran seven days a week in the past. The equipment is high tech and subject to being fussy, and that's the new equipment. If you work at a lab with old equipment it may even be past it's end of life with parts and service difficult to come by. The labs attempt to cover for each other when labs adjacent to them go down, but PETNET has added new bio markers and so the labs have a difficult time covering for each other during outages, because a lab has to move on and make the next product for the day. This creates a very high level of stress for the pharmacists and service personnel who work in the labs. Radiation exposure may be high, but within legal limits, depending on what your job function is. The maintenance personnel are subject to the highest levels of exposure but the pharmacists may get a high level of exposure themselves if they are sloppy when they are loading doses into the shielded shipping containers. The pay is acceptable to good for a normal job, but if you work in one of the labs it may be too low to tolerate the horrible work environment.