forklift operator

equipment operator

production worker

manufacturing technician

qc technician

Bolthouse Farms

It was fast paced during the span of the day used for cleaning the equipment. I made of point of filling the voids during the rest of the day as a sanitation worker has some flexibility. I'd fill propane tanks if the temp forklift drivers ran them out of gas. I'd clean up the packaging area whether I was alone or had help. I was all over my section of the plant literally at times. Due to people failing to come in, sometimes I covered two areas. Lots of lifting and dragging of hoses (manguera). I also drove forklift for sanitation as did many others. Typically ancient forklifts no longer suitable for shipping. A good full face respirator with regularly changed filters (at least every 2 weeks as this is a wet environment) is vital to this position. At times this was the company's greatest failing depending on the year. The bleach (chloro) ruined many pants and shirts due to it leaking thru holes in my Viking brand spray suit. Some got chemical burns. Even with the mask you get a dose and half masks are not good enough for many positions as the protection factor is too low.
If you speak Spanish it will help though the job is largely self evident. They will hire older workers so that is good. The distance to production plant was a huge cost as it is located near the Columbia River miles from most towns so figure near 80 miles round trip for most people per day. Management did try to improve the job each year as to safety and process. Also sanitation was a seasonal position requiring you reapply each year. Nine months of hours in six months is the schedule. 
The moving equipment sometimes resulted in people having near misses and injuries. 
I had a supervisor of sanitation that made the job doable.

There is limited opportunity for advancement. It seems advancement is only offered to those that know the right people and have the same "values" as upper management. If you are a "Yes Man" or "Yes Woman" you will fit right in.

From a work prospective, they do very little or poor planning and are very re-active, so employees end up having an unbalanced, unpredictable work/home life.

 Lack of communication and community within the organization. One of the values of the company is "Everything matters." In my experience, it really came down to money. If a project was more lucrative than another, then we would be asked to leave a customer hanging as it is not a "priority." Management is too young. I am OK with constructive criticism but there is a lack of any mentor ship. Managers tell you what you do wrong but don't really give you any encouraging words or advice. There direction was very "robotic" like and lacked any emotional contentedness managers, should have with their employees.

 When hired on, you are basically left on your own. Sounds great, but make a mistake and you'll be sure hear it. The company thinks that someone who does a great job regardless of their personality makes a good leader. Not the case.

I have enjoyed my overall work experience at Bolthouse Farms; I love the environment, and I think the management is very professional.  I perform various tasks throughout my workday at Bolthouse including, but not limited to: Accounts Receivable: applying payments to customer accounts as they are received via ACH, EFT or checks.  File and pull invoice and payment information.  Send discrepancy information to SCM team.  Print, review and mail customer invoices.  Process credit memos.  Organize and maintain reports.  Responsible for reducing delinquency on assigned accounts.  Printing, reviewing and mailing customer invoices.  Filing and pulling invoice and payment information.  Assisting in eliminating discrepancies in billing areas, and cleanup of previous accounts.  Coordinating with sales on customer needs upon request.  Maintaining daily records of correspondence with customers, sales and other co-workers for weekly meetings with manager to ensure I am meeting expectations.  Coordinating with sales on customer needs upon request.  Maintaining daily records of correspondence with customers, sales and other co-workers for weekly meetings with manager to ensure I am meeting expectations.

Sales office is very unstructured. This company does not have any real training or even new hiring on-boarding plans in place. They are just going with the flow of things and expect you to know. Managers gossiping and whispering in corners, creating unconformable work environments. Managers in sales office show favoritism. This place gives me high school vibes for sure. Managers have been heard sharing employee personal business on the floor.Turn over rater is very high, very few people have been employed over 3 years. Expectations are not laid out in the beginning so many things are left unclear. When being trained you can not ask more than one person a question and get the same answer. No team meetings, no progress meetings or updates! You only get an email from someone when you have done something wrong. Sales office is NOT a team environment what so ever! They will throw you under the bus and not even offer to help when in need of help. Team members are so concerned with other peoples work load, that they cant even do their own work. Blatant abuse of unlimited sick day policy so you will be stuck covering for the same ppl WEEKLY! They are using old archaic jde systems. Micromanaged at its finest

Very bad job experience, worked in the sanitation department for about 2 weeks before resigning. The job isn’t so bad but you basically have to teach/train yourself most things which makes it very difficult the first days, the management doesn’t train you they just give you a walk through the first day and then you’re on your own. I don’t know how the company hires their supervisors, the one on sanitation doesn’t explain anything, talks very rude and seems like he’s always in a bad mood, He talks more rudely in Spanish, if you ask him something it seems that it bothers him, sometimes he doesn’t even reply just moves his head. So there’s no motivation of going to work when you feel unwanted you think everyday about going or not , They barely pay you above minimum for a graveyard shift job and have many rude supervisors that make you feel uncomfortable, no wonder many people quit . Some of the leaders with the green safety helmets are good people though, they try to help you. Most people don’t speak English and it’s hard to communicate. If you get to work there be careful because you’ll be working with dangerous machines and there has been accidents already.

This job are for people who desperately need a job and are wiling to jump through hoops to keep a full time job and lose their personal life. You get the days off they assign to you and if the planets are aligned then you could have more than one day off, otherwise you're usually just given 1 day out of the week off every week until they rotate you a weekend off. Most of the time you get into work you will go through a pass down meeting of what the shift before you didn't complete and because you are now on the clock, all the work the previous shift failed to complete becomes your problem for your shift. Management and supervisors alike don't care nor bother to help you in your daily struggles unless they don't need to get out of their seats. The hardest part of the job is having to communicate with people who don't care what you have to say.
The best part of the job is working the weekends when there is little to no work to be done, but you still have to finish your shift for the time being, so you just wonder aorund doing little work to pass the time.

A typical day at work was that of being there for 12 hours a day and working out at the gym. I loved working for the company, always something new going on and never short on work. I learned how to operate just about every machine necessary to run a bottling factory, and everybody was open to cross training and learning more. Management really knew their stuff about the manufacturing process, book smart and machine smart if you will. Co workers were also very machine savvy and open to teaching you new things, got tons of support from everybody on my climb to the top operator position as a Pasteurizer operator. The hardest part of my job id probably base off of what others have said to me, its a large workload. But ive always preferred more work than less, the most enjoyable part of my job were the opportunities that the company had given me. They were always very open to teaching me new things as well as working with foreign technicians/engineers during machine shutdowns and upgrades and it made me feel like I was learning more and privileged to have the opportunity as well.

The people here are alright but they can be very offensive at times. Very few managers and supersvisors are good people and a lot of things don't get addressed or handled properly. This place wants to suck the life out of you and have you make this place your number one priority even though you as an employee are not valued in the slightest. Ive heard management say that if someone is being even a little difficult to just let them go as opposed to compromising with them. Days off are hard to come by as almost everyone is required to work 6 or more days in a row and time off request do not get approved that often so work almost basically becomes your life. With all the Covid-19 things going on; the ineptitude of this company and its management have really shown. I had to leave early for a dentist appointment and I let my supervisor know so that I wouldn't get in trouble and I still got a write up for that. Overall I'm only here till I finish school and get a better job. The pay isn't nearly good enough compensation for the work that is expected of you.

From no-experience to some-experience pay is 15.00 to 18.00 dollars an hour. Make sure you negotiate a good hourly pay. 2% rises yearly. Schedule is crazy if you’re the new machinist you will work longer hours. You will get started on deferent pieces of equipment. Then you will be moved to the dirty room an area where you remove bearings from rollers easy peasey. If you’re not considered a key member of machine shop you will be asked to help in deferent areas. A good benefit in terms of learning everybody tips and tricks when doing deferent jobs, you will also be doing everyone else’s shores, like maintaining and cleaning all equipment in the CNC area , SAW area and Roller shop area, you will also sweep all these areas,  clean the outside gutters and organized yard racks, there is no taking turns or schedule of who’s next to clean, this will be your responsibility until you become a key member, You will do this until a more permanent position opens up on a piece, you will also mostly be asked to help-out fabrication good if your wanting to learn the welding part of fabrication.

The only good thing about the company is the weekly pay and discounts for their company store. 

However management is terrible.
The company expects you to either do 8 hour shifts or 12 hour shifts MANDATORY.
Some of us have personal lives and a family to take care and provide for, but the company can care less and WILL give you a point and/or write up for not staying OT. There's no doing 30, 1hr, 2hr, OT. STRICTLY ONLY 8 or 12 and the worst part about it is they let you know usually the last 1 or 2 hours of your shift when you're almost done for the day. 

Schedule is constantly changing, sometimes they just send you home early if work is low. 

As for for the environment, it's alright but there is some favoritism and especially the night shift some of the supervisors are rude, disrespectful, and micromanage you to get you in trouble for any reason if you get on their bad side because they enjoy their little power trips.

Lastly, some of the employe are a bunch of gossipers. 

Overall, the 

OVERALL, environment is very unstable, management is horrible.


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