production associate

food service team member

sanitation worker

runner

human resources assistant

BIRCHWOOD FOODS

What is the best part of working at the company?
opportunities to increase skill set in mechanical applications=

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Long hours, conflicting priorities, lack of support, toxic workplace.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Poor, toxic, vitriol rules, your actual position is to serve as a scapegoat for upper management.  Survival depends on political skills and ability to worship upper management, as well as willingness to accept responsibility for the poor performance of others. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Arrive early, check email - usually filled with complaints, groundless accusations, faulty data, demands for remedy of the failures of others, conflicting demands from assorted and often feuding management, threats, public airing of grievances, etc.
The majority of your shift will require going from point to point, addressing mechanical issues, staffing issues product component issues, and supply issues, while trying to keep staff safe in a dangerous ergonomic nightmare of a facility.  A proper close out of the shift will involve balancing hopelessly incorrect inventory data,  completing redundant reports, often providing fraudulent data to government required records, and many constantly changing demands that are not in you or your staffs job description.  A two hour, non-compensated for process at a minimum.

The working conditions at Birchwood Foods were kinda like Hell if Hell were cold and loud.  The sanitary conditions were awful there was always pools of blood on the floor.  There was a true element of danger there. You could lose your arm in the grinders or there's the possibility of getting stabbed by a prison inmate.  The place was like a mecca of seedy nasty people many with criminal backgrounds.  The people who worked there I found were very rude and talked smack all the time.  I had to stand up to a few people there just to get them off my back which I shouldn't of had to do.  The managers there didn't seem to care about my plight with the social conditions.  I saw a few fights and I almost got into a few myself.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part about working for birchwood is definitely the workforce. Everyone is friendly 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most stressful part about working at the company is communication from leadership to the employees. There is no clear guidelines on what is expected. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It is a typical industrial environment. The union is a benefit to the employees if you know how unions operate but mind your P's and Q's leadership that is in place does not like constructive criticism.

A lot of hours. Bad communication. All foreign employees so language barriers. A lot of finger pointing, no confrontation. Understaffed in maintenance dept. Disrespectful , insubordinate employees, set in their ways. Low standards, in the process of changing that. Nobody wants to work together, they are concerned about their job and their job only. Management is decent, they have a lot to work with considering that it is an old plant and the orders are in high demand so a lot of stress and pressure. They do give out gift cards and cater in meals when accelerated production numbers are achieved in appreciation.

I was a Production Supervisor in the Birch wood North Department, the amount of hours you are expected to work as well as the days off that you will never see equate to a very horrible job. My salary as a production supervisor was 49,400 and you were forced to work 7 days a week and 10-12 hours + a day, that equates into no family life and no time for anybody else. Also the employees there speak little to no ENGLISH! 98.5% of my employees could not communicate with me when there was an issue. Closing, this is by far a horrible place to work, I actually quit after 3 weeks!

This could be a decent place to work if it wasnt for the hours and upper management not looking at the big picture.  You will work 70 plus hours weeks.  Being able to speak spanish would help.  Pay for the union workers is a joke.  9.50 to start.  Highest machine opperator was 14.50 an hour.  This is pretty sad.  Place also hires people that are serving time at the prision.  Nor sure if I liked this or not.  I guess it was cheap labor that would show up every day.  As a supervisor I was expected to be on the floor 90 percent of the day.  This is a number that is pretty unrealistic.  

What is the best part of working at the company?
Management and the culture the coworkers were very pleasant.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
There was absolutely no stress at all.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The environment was chilly,but it was a meat processing plant.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Fast paced steady work, very motivating.

Overwork! Short staff ! Short hours ! And short break! Only work here if you can handle hard labor work or need money fast. The people here are really nice but its short on people so that mean you will be doing everything! Haha everyone i work with are tired ! Even me! This company it feel like you have to be a favourite to move up! Its not good. Wish more people can work here. And break should be changed. Be added more . cause of the overworked. So if i work 10 hour or more standing all day! We need another break ! Two break a day is not gonna work. 3 breaks.

Greatest place i worked. I've been a truck driver for 20 years and wished I found them when I fist started driving.
Great people. Great company!
Never had to wait for a load. Always had my next load so I can plan how I wanted to run it.
Best Dispatch I ever had. Safet personal great. I just can't say enough about this company. 
I'm sorry I had to leave. I just didn't feel safe driving anymore. I sure miss everybody. 
The 20 years driving they treated me the BEST!


AS an employee at Birchwood foods, I was looked to as someone that was here to help. I follow all the guidelines for the Benefits Admin and have work also in the A/P portion of the Office work.  I would continue working there as this is a good company to work for as for the compensation for the job, it's not what I would say is spot on.  There for I am seeking other employment with better pay and full time hours as well as full benefits.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production associate 4 salaries reported	$18.50 per hour
Food service team member 4 salaries reported	$18.63 per hour
Sanitation worker 2 salaries reported	$20.75 per hour
Runner 2 salaries reported	$14.50 per hour
Human resources assistant 2 salaries reported	$18.00 per hour

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