maintenance technician

machine operator

production associate

forklift operator

customer service representative

Buckeye Corrugated, Inc.

This job is highly stressful.  The training is a joke and the environment is terrible.  You cannot be one minute late without getting 'demerits' (of which they don't tell you when you get hired on); this is like a point system and if you go to the dr during your shift, or are one minute late getting back from lunch you get points against you.  The management is a joke; you have TOO many cooks in the kitchen and half the time no one knows what they're doing.  When I was there, they shifted supervisors over the customer service department, and this person really didn't seem to understand what it took for csr's to do their job.  You were chained to your desk and they counted every single time you went to the bathroom.  I was told I wasn't learning as quickly as they would have hoped, but I was buried all the time and the person training me wasn't even a CSR, and she was incredibly rude and condescending!  My blood pressure was sky high because of the stress, NO ONE liked their job; I heard from the other ladies there every single day how much they hated being there and how convoluted that place was.  The money was great, but certainly not worth what you were doing.  I was there every day from 745am to nearly 6pm and if you took more than 30 min for lunch, you were frowned upon even though they told you that you can take an hour if you want.  Your job description is not clearly outlined and there was hardly any training.  Every single thing I did, I was told I did it wrong, even though I did it exactly as it was shown for me to do you.  When they let me go, they simply said, you're making too many mistakes, rather than sit me down and TEACH me what I was doing incorrectly, or even ask me if I understood what the heck I was doing. I am college educated, and graduated with honors, and yet they made me feel like a complete idiot.

What is the best part of working at the company?
 Great place to work. Very good upper management , really care  about employees safety and ability to provide for themselves. If you don’t mind working overtime and  just show up to work and do a good job it doesn’t get much better. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
 As with any big company now a days there are a variety of employees some caring more than others. If you are there to work hard and be productive day shifts the way to go.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Day shift is professional and follow break times etc in accordance with company guidelines more so than nights,  that’s everywhere now I guess

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Time goes fast,  if everyone you work with stays at the machine.  There’s always something to keep busy even if it’s sweeping

hours were great and shift was great, besides that I dont have much to say in terms of the positives here. The work environment on certain machines ranged from horrendous to great, all depends on where they put you. The work load also varied from next to nothing to being overloaded, and dont expect any extra compensation in your hourly rate from working harder than anyone else. Training varied from machine to machine depending on the operator, and with myself having had previous experience in the industry I was left in the lowest position with no training to move up at all on the machine i was scheduled to work at. Managers pick and choose who they like and dont, and youll get your hourly rate based on that and not your actual work ethic/experience.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing...3rd shift does the work load of the entire company... everyone does not get the same benefits


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Upper management. They do not follow thru with promises appropriate  raises to work load ineffective communication.  The bad employees get rewarded and the good employees are punished with a heavier work load.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic.  Very clicky.  They do NOT like women here women are punished more harshly than men for the same actions

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful always trying to catch up what day shift didn't do plus our regular shift work load

My primary responsibilities at BCI Koch were to maintain and promote profitable sales of corrugated packaging and POP displays. On a daily basis, I would travel throughout my territory meeting with existing and new customers. Tasks included a wide variety of activities from responding to quality issues, collecting past due balances, developing new designs and creative ideas to cold calling on new prospects.
I maintained an average customer base of approximately sixty active customers that combined for a total of $4.5 million in annual gross sales.
I have a spotless reputation with my former employer, customers and competitors.

Has very good and loyal workers. They just need to appreciate them more. Management is a joke. I once had a question that I was sure was a HR issue. But HR referred me to the Plant Manager for the answer. When I asked the manager about it he told me to ask HR about it. So what does that tell you? Overtime is almost a constant. Requesting time off goes by seniority not first come first served. They will use your PTO on days you call in. Which can leave you with a negative PTO balance if you don't keep track of it. You have to work 60hrs BEFORE even getting paid double time for overtime. You get to listen to ear buds while you work so that's a plus.

Plant manager micromanages every step of the production process. All competent employees retired or left when the employee stocks were bought out. Leaving only incompetent leaders who refuse to listen to production employees. Non stop mandatory overtime blamed on people's poor attendance but it's actually due to the fack upper management wants to line thier pockets by boosting square footage output by forcing overtime and pulling orders up to the point it's impossible to finish what needs to be done. 

Small Corporate Office, which meant if it needed done, I did it. Zero knowledge of benefits when I started 15 years ago and once given the opportunity, excelled at working with employee-owners, Brokers, and Providers. Diverse group of co-workers will many different personality styles Worked and communicated well with all. Many became friends outside of work. Most enjoyable part of job was helping employees and their dependents with benefit problems and hearing the stress in their voices evaporate once we found resolution.

The job is very hot. If it is 98 degrees outside it is like 110 inside the building. Also they don't let you have water breaks. Very dangerous job.So if  you seek to work here do not try to do more than you can cause if you fall out it will be all on you cause we as temps have no insurance at all. They are not calling ambulance you have to get to the hospital the best way you can.

I've been working here for about 2 months as of writing this. Everyone so far has been really nice (from co-workers to management), they have fantastic structure, very goal-oriented, safety conscious, employee giveback, management interacts with employees every day, they started me at a great rate, and they have standards about new hires with their interview and application requirements. I wish I had started here way sooner

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Maintenance technician 18 salaries reported	$26.50 per hour
Machine operator 16 salaries reported	$23.76 per hour
Production associate 21 salaries reported	$22.14 per hour
Forklift operator 13 salaries reported	$20.96 per hour
Customer service representative 2 salaries reported	$24.50 per hour

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