machine operator

maintenance technician

maintenance mechanic

entry level manufacturing technician

assistant

Amcor

I worked in maintenance starting off on the m-f/8hr rotation then went to the night shift 12hr rotation. The workload is intense the majority of the time so you need to be in good shape and motivated with high energy if you want to be sucessful here. 

There is no training program and not nearly enough resources for you to self-train. This means you'll have to ask plenty of questions and soak up as much knowledge as you can from the other team members. This also means that you'll want to maintain a good relationship with ALL of your peers, esp the veterans. They're the best and only training resource you have. Now, there are certainly some veterans who are rotten apples.....I mean rotten to the core. Try to stay clear of them and stick with team members in different departments that you get along with and build relationships with them. You'll find that there are plenty of amazing men and women at this facility that you share commonalities with.

Unless you have work experience in this field you'll be stepping into a completely different world, working on equipment that's foreign, aged and highly complicated. It's a ton of new information (names, acronyms, procedures, parts, etc) to grasp. Understanding how these machines work will take years, so frustration and stress will be routine occurrences- heads up. But, the team chemistry is second to none and you'll enjoy the work once you understand the basics and get the hang of it.

The attendance policy is very strict and non discriminative so don't test the waters on this one.

The pay is good here so spend the money on heavy duty, reliable tools. It will pay off in the long run.

The maintenance manager at this facility is one of the best I've encountered. Really, all of management here is good and the supervisors are experienced, great leaders. You'll find that you have plenty of support.

Overtime- there's lots of it. The majority of the time it's impossible for the workload to be completed in 8hrs. So yes, some mechanics will have to stay behind but I've never been forced to stay when I couldn't. When you first start you're going to want to volunteer to stay late anyway. This is where you learn the most. You'll also be asked to come in on wknds sometimes but not required.

All in all, I had a positive experience working at this facility. As I said, the lack of training resources presents a severe learning curve but the maintenance team members are a great group of guys who won't hesitate to teach you everything they know. There are facets of the culture that can be negatively contagious. Just stay clear of them because the opportunities are endless if you're dedicated, hardworking, self-motivated and a fast learner.

Amcor could've should've and would've been the perfect job. The shifts are 12 hrs and the days are alternate days every 2 weeks( work Monday and Tuesday first week off Mon and Tues the next). This gives you more days off but the 12 hours can be tough on some people.... Although i liked the setup. Was hired through temp agency... Wish i was hired through company... Temps are treated like dirt... There is no training to speak of... Literally told a task and hopefully can figure it out.... Some coworkers are nice and will help but most are so burned out by the company they rarely speak and perform their duties like zombies... That said you definitely can move at whatever pace you want... There is no supervision to speak of... After a 5 minute "safety meeting" where everyone just eats or is on their phone you won't see a supervisor the rest of the 12 hours... Can't find them if you need them either.... They must have a great sense of job security because i have never seen such blatant nepotism... Top positions filled with the same last names....: new employees getting favorable assignments and their grievances acted on because of friends and family who have been with the company... Especially against temps... There are literal memos given out everyday at the mandatory meeting that will usually tell a short example of a temp mistake and having their assignment ended. Don't expect job security....:: they put me in a clean room where the AC was broken and the temperature was a constant 88 degrees with no talk of fixing the ac... Constant breakdowns... Was told quarterly bonus was cancelled... Alot of finger pointing and thin skinned individuals... If you get a job there my advice... Don't speak... Someone will get offended and never go beyond what your expected to do... If you ever do something extra you will be expected to do your regular work and the extra everytime.... Gotta love bagging your ware... Packing your own boxes and wrapping and transporting your own pallet from the clean room while working 7 machines.... And the reward for never missing a day and giving everything to try to get hired into the company... When your evaluation date is close you'll get a text from the temp agency saying your assignment has ended... Could've been a great place to make a career... Should've been a company that valued hard work and commitment... Not who you knew.... Would've loved to have said best job ever in the review but it definitely isn't that... 

I worked as a forklift operator in the warehouse on a temporary basis through a nationally recognized staffing agency. I was placed on a job alongside a full time company employee doing the exact same duties as the other employee for far less pay. That in itself should tell you something. At my facility,there were no real shift foremans but only "warehouse leads". These were hourly employees with foreman duties but no managerial authority. Lacking authority, I found that many "leads" had difficulty with giving orders to the many belligerent and quite frankly LAZY people there so they'd find the one person that would actually work and lay a ton of duties on them. If you don't like overtime or value your weekends then don't work there. You work towards your 3 day weekend all week only to be told you have to work anyway. The "bottle line" is terribly understaffed and should be a two person job. Loading trucks is good but prepare as the bottom hand to do all the difficult loads that the others don't want to do. Favoritism? You'd better believe there is. Double standards too! I noticed immediately when I hired in how unhappy everyone was there in the warehouse. Were they ungrateful and just belly aching like most people do on every job in America? Probably. But speaking for myself, I saw many, many areas that needed improvement. Perhaps morale would go up if those improvements happened. But I didn't stick around long enough to find out. That's the bad. Now for the good.........
I was a temp.  That said, I didn't get paid near enough to deal with the aggravation of Amcor Wytheville. But if you can secure permanent full time employment with the company as an Amcor employee and not a wee little temp, the pay and benefits make enduring the bad things a little easier. But you'd better have forklift /material handling experience in a fast paced production environment. Preferably experience that involves removing and placing product on and off production lines at a continuous pace. I literally put as much as 11.5 hours on my lift on a 12 hour shift at times. If you can handle that, ignore the lazy people and complaining, accept that you'll be assigned duties that others cry their way out of, and not be a temp, then you might actually thrive and do well at Amcor.

Two major issues in my short time here:
First day on the job, there was a department and shift-wide "grievances meeting" with management and and the HR member. Only two people felt safe enough to speak up for issues that everyone else in the room nodded along to, while the HR personnel there to help listen to the issues grew increasingly defensive and ultimately hostile. The two employees who felt safe enough to speak up ended up explaining issues for a full hour in a tactful yet truthful way. The HR personnel did not address any issues brought up, only insisted that they were trying and repeatedly asking the employees who spoke up if they had any better solutions. If I'm not mistaken, that was her job. Over the coming days, the meeting was discussed by different employees as typical and as though nothing ever changes, so why even bother having us talk to management and the HR personnel assigned to "help". 
The second problem came from a small accident that resulted in an injury that was never looked at by any medical professional, even though the employee immediately asked to see a medic when alerting the supervisor. While no running machinery was involved, the accident involved heavy materials dropping on appendages and then repeatedly smashing the same place while attempting to return to work (on a different project) later. The employee was never seen by any of the on-staff medical professionals, but was the subject of another department and shift wide meeting to shame the new employee and cover all the company's talking points on safety. 
The company talks a good game from the outside, but the HR personnel directly involved with employees speaks to these employees in a way that was condescending at best and underlyingly hostile at times. Then there was the issue of the long meetings on safety that were more to ensure the company could not be found at fault for any legal liability, when no medical attention was offered or given to the employer. 
I would give serious consideration to avoiding working for any part of the company I witnessed. Why be unhappy and unsafe while managers insisting they are there to help and support actually just cover the company?

A typical day of working at Bemis starts like most production facilities.  You punch in and go to your designated area that was assigned to you in your initial 2 week training period.  New Hires have a longer probationary period but that is to be expected in order to be able to perform in a production environment.
Shift huddles are held regularly and last for about 15 to 20 minutes.  Safety protocols are called out and other other business that needs to be addressed for the day.  Most (if not all) new hires will work int he PRI room.  The PRI room consists of a parts washer (read: big dishwasher) that is loaded with blade chambers, buckets, and all of the other various parts that need to be washed after a print run has been completed.  It can by dirty work.  lots of solvents and inks to get you messy but once you have paid your dues int he PRI room you will move to the pit crew area and eventually to the production floor with a pay bump at regular intervals.  As of this posting (June 2016) you WILL make 16$ off the street and you will be at $18.13 in a year GUARANTEED, if you stick with it.
The entire system is designed to make sure that everyone is trained in the same way from the moment you step in the door.  That is not to say that everybody works the same way (far from it) but essentially you should receive the same training as the people who are ahead of you.  
Hardest part of the job is lifting barrels of ink that can weigh about 42 lbs. at the most.  You will do this on a regular basis.  I have watched 6ft 6" guys BUILT who hated it and I have seen 5" 4" girls who couldn't have minded it less.  It is all about how much you want to put into the job.  Attitude is everything.  It is not a terribly physical job but it can get a bit busy and tiresome.  It can also be a bit hard to handle a 12 hour swing shift but when you do the math you are only working for 7 months out of the year! 
The people were pretty cool to work with but you are always going to have your cranks.  On the whole, I really enjoyed working at Bemis and hope to find something similar in my new location.

I worked in maintenance on blowmold and there was not a single person, there that is a tradesman. Most of them were operators turned maintenance, most by just sucking up to management. A lead electrician that doesn’t know an electric dryer is 220v. The other lead that “qualified” me on the lathe and milling machine pointed to the surface grinder when I asked about a grinder to sharpen carbide lathe cutting tools, it wasn’t equipped with the appropriate wheel for that, he flat out didn’t know. The same ignorant mouth breather also brought me a woodworking belt sander to restore the profile on a machine cam. There are a handful of really smart, good techs there but they’re walked on and treated like idiots because they’re not about sucking up and actually do their jobs. The only detail this company did not lie to me about was the address, literally!! I was told about pay progression to get to top scale, they changed their wording on that ofter I quit a good job for that one. They promised 2weeks of vacation which I got but was impossible to get any “approved”. I was also told I would train in the facility for 90 days on all the equipment with the PM crew and then put with a shift tech for the rest of the training but in reality they stuck me mopping and cleaning up after the PM crew. After 90 days they put me on shift, not to train, but to replace another tech and learn as you go, but still with entry level pay progression. There, maintenance is responsible for quality, setting up the machine, change overs, and operator on top of maintenance responsibilities. They are also terribly understaffed and there are only two techs per shift keeping the plant running. Furthermore, during my interview I was told that the reason that they have lost so many members of maintenance is “they weren’t a good fit for the company”. That statement couldn’t be farther from the truth. Apply at your own risk, I’m so grateful and happy to not have to clock in that s____thole anymore.

First of all Bemis Healthcare Packaging in Oshkosh should really look closely at their Leads and Supervisors , I have never worked someplace where the Supervisors and Leads talk about their current  employees  and former employees ,actually its more like they make fun of them. If they don't like you they tell everyone else.  I worked with a newer person that was slow on packaging (according to the leads)and they were telling everyone that they were going to fire her, but they didn't talk to her about her performance.  I guess if you have a problem with someone then go to that person not everyone else. Also since your working in a "clean" environment you cannot chew gum or candy but the leads and Supervisors do? Also you have to wear latex gloves at all times but yet the leads don't while they are on the belt?  You go through 1 week of schooling and 1 week on the floor then after that your supposed to be with the same trainer for a while but many in my group was not, we were just basically thrown in there and the people that have been there a while expect you to know things you were never trained on, there is a huge lack of communication between the Leads and Supervisors with the general workers and operators on this issue.  If your sick you have to beg to go home, hmmm weird in a "clean" environment why would you want someone sick there?  I call that place a "revolving door". Soooo many people come and go and these are just a few of the reason why!I would never recommend it to anyone. Just way too many people there that think they are the boss when they are just a general worker or a tester.( I had a difficult time with a particular tester lady there also, she constantly was telling general workers what to do and how to do it, she never could mind her own business and she has only been there less than 2 years, which seems to be about the norm there.  I only met a handful of people there that was there 3 years or more, whats that tell you?

Bemis - Mactac Scranton PA
SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:
Title: Extrusion Material and Process Engineer
As Process Engineer I am responsible for the efficient functioning of the plant's processes production, and equipment. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, analyzing problems and data, maintaining interplant communications, training operators, and establishing and improving production practices and procedures utilizing a team approach and Lean Manufacturing techniques.
I also perform other duties as required to promote overall plant effectiveness and customer satisfaction. Maintain max run rates
Update equipment for Liestritz twin screw extruder L/D 100/1.
Repaired a multiple problems and enhance capability
Lead upgrades, sush as install inline viscometer. Improve yields to maximum level of less than .03% scrap.
Investigate and analyze production problems and bottlenecks concerning throughput and processing issues.30%
Work with equipment, supplies and manufacturing technology regarding equipment or process changes and continuous process and quality improvement, as well as product development. 25%
Work on improvement activities related to manufacturing, efficiency, and film/adhesive quality issues. 10%
Work with operator teams in establishing practices and problem solving 10%
Analyze production and process data. 10%
Contributes to other plant and divisional activities as directed. 5%
Interface effectively with customers. 10%

TOOLS/EQUIPMENT:
Personal Computer and Printer
Calipers, pi tape grinders shadow graphs
Process Measurement Equipment
Calculator, Copy Machine
CAD light, Minitab, SAP, JDE, Mold Flow

Direct coworkers are the family that keeps Amcor Converter Films from falling apart. All jobs here have low expectations. Easy work in every position. No direction on how to advance. No incentive for working harder or contributing more except for personal satisfaction. They say that safety is #1 but their #1 is production output. Benefits taken away while achieving record breaking profits. Health insurance for family has $13,000 out of pocket max and $6000 deductible. Little vacation compared to competitors. Expect to work Christmas Day 7 years in a row (then 7 off) - It's like this for every holiday. Negative culture caused by management making major changes to structure without communicating the full plan - this naturally causes gossip and makes a negative air. Lazy employees are rarely held accountable. The rotating swing shift is hard on the body however, you do get a lot of days off - that's one positive thing. Great direct coworkers. Upper management can not be trusted at this location. Many issues that could be fixed in a single day have remained issues for many many years. Being proud to work for an employer is #1 reason for someone having company loyalty; however, not many reasons to be proud to work here. You used to get a prorated vacation based on start date. Now, you get less if you start mid year. You used to get more days off when a loved one passes away, but they took some away. While corporate workers are getting large 15k bonuses, production continues to get nothing - it's been that way now for nearly 5 quarters straight. We only live once. Consider an alternative employer. We might not be appreciated by most employers, but if they can make us feel appreciated that would be a drastic improvement. 

Was an employee oriented COMPANY and a great place to work when i started a number of years ago. Best job i ever had. Loved being a part of the Amcor family so much that being on my feet for 12 hr night shifts seemed a very small price to pay for the job satisfaction, $$$, support, appreciation, benefits, friendships, and extra treats and perks that i got in return. Now Amcor is part of a CORPORATION so don’t expect to feel like i did if u dare to start working there now. Prepare to spend 12 hrs going from 1 machine to another to shut off and deal with the constant (no joke..1 after another) alarms going off and running around tying to find enough rags, a clean mop, a bucket, and cleaner to be able to keep your floors clean all shift while gallons and gallons of oil or fluid pours out all around the machine.(blow mold/injection dept.) Nothing runs right, u will not have the tools/ supplies u need, maintenance is stretched so thin (nights) that whatever  problem ur having u will probably have to deal with for the shift unless it seriously affects quality or the machine just won’t run at all. If u work packaging you’ll be either REALLY hot or REALLY cold, at least 1 out of the 4 or 5 machines you’re running will not be able to complete 1 pallet without requiring at least 3mins of your time or energy ( for every pallet..all shift) and bet $1000 you’ll still be having the same issue when u come in for your next shift. Pay and benefits are great but still not worth the frustration and exhaustion you’re constantly in a state of while working there. 
Oh, and they’re always short staffed so don’t plan on having more than 5 days off a month. Mandatory 12 hr OT shifts are the weekly norm now that turnover is so high.





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