production operator

forklift operator

mixer

maintenance technician

sanitation worker

C.H. Guenther & Son LLC

The company has grown fast and has neglected to add staff or budget to accompany the growth.

The result is that it has shifted too much into fire-extinguishing mode  from proactive support.
This leads to the new people being hired quickly leave when they find a "real" job as this company is merely transitional. You're left with old-timers who are more concerned with CYA and riding out until retirement instead of being innovative and listening to their employees.

People who worry more about their own skin end up hiding a lot of issues from upper management and that results in anything middle-management and down has poor morale and "can't wait to leave" as I keep hearing repeatedly. 

The culture and the people in general are great. There are team birthday celebrations, there are new product samplings and events and people get along well.  This does a lot to offset the temp-job mentality that people have.

Benefits - high cost with limited coverage. The money is spent more on a gym/ "wellness plans" instead of actual medical coverage.

Promotions and moving up is limited because with the limited staff in many departments you're too needed in your current position. This limits you to waiting for someone to quit before you even have a chance. 
This is part of why so many people with less than a decade in don't feel vested in the company.


If anyone at this company reads this, please make use of the "snitch box" to leave comments to upper management. I am not entirely sure they are aware of the issues due to insulation by their subordinates.

Pioneer foods has been a wonderful place to earn experience and learn valuable skills that have greatly assisted me in building a strong resume. I think it has the potential to be a great place to work if there wasn't so much of a clique environment embedded into the culture. Even after a few years of hard work in this plant I still constantly feel like there are a select few who receive special treatment from upper management even if they continuously fall short of expectations. 

This observation is not coming from a disgruntled employee but a concerned one. 

Another issue is that the off shifts are allowed to continuously damage equipment, do sub par work, and pawn tasks off on their follow on shifts which creates an atmosphere of animosity in the overall work community, and a has created a culture of systemic entitlement and dis-ownership especially among Team Leaders which then rolls down hill to their employees. 

The final Issue I have with the plant is the completely unpredictable scheduling and last second rescheduling. I understand that in the manufacturing world that sometimes crazy things happen and a shift might have to be extended, or you may have to work an extra day, but at Pioneer this type of disorganized sporadic scheduling is regular, constant, and expected to be adhered to even on little to no notice. I cannot count how many times I have come in for a 10 hour shift only to stay for 12-13 hours then come back in the next day on a 6-7 hour turn around.

Repeat and I LOUDLY REPEAT, I would rate the company & most importantly the managers & HR with 0 stars if that were an option. 

STEER CLEAR from working here or even just thinking about applying (DON'T DO IT!), there are serious/severe issues with management and HR, so many unethical issues, there aren't enough character limits to include all. Main ones are:

1. Management AKA leadership simply doesn't exist. The maintenance manager is more racist than the most racist person you know. HR or Sr. leadership do absolutely nothing, and that's no exaggeration, they literally do nothing about this issue. 
2. The turnover rate is higher than in a fast food restaurant. 
3. You will never see the light of day, even in spring forward season, because everyone except management & HR is worked to death, no matter how qualified or experienced you are. 
4. HR has no clue how to be HR. 
5. Raises are comparable to a child's allowance, that's actually an overstatement, because a child's allowance is actually more than you'll ever see no mater if there 10 years, 20 years, or your entire life. 

Simply, just stay away and even do your enemies a favor and tell them to steer clear because nobody in their right mind would even recommend their worst enemy to work here.

I have been working for more than 9 years. A typical day begin at 7 am checking and downloading data from Data Loggers located inside the freezers in Packing lines. Then upload the data to Sharepoint where users from any company of the corporation can check out how our freezers are working. 
Then documentation from every production department is daily checked making sure no data or signature is missing. The next step is sorting the documentation and placed in the corresponding log books.
Daily personnel training is checked. Then review the Master Log Scheduled (certifications, documentation, equipment) for any about to expired document or certification.
Producing bread is very easy to learn but everything is timely controlled so if procedures are not followed, results are catastrophic. People of every department is willing to learn, though the hardest part is all the things we have to do in QA to control processes not because they are hard but we are short of people most of the time giving us no time to enjoy the job.

Be ready to do the job of others, one shift has 6 warehouse workers which combine to 1 actual worker since they take 1 hour breaks (2) and a 1 hour lunch. Then you have 4 people in the other shift that have to do what was supposed to be done in first shift. Of course you have you bad seed on that shift too who basically does whatever he wants since accountability is only for those who are actually working and aren't part of the leadership friends crew. 

The job is extremely but you have to deal with the name callings and tons of work left behind by the first shift which doesn't do anything at all. The leads don't care if your parents or relatives passed away, you still have to work the next day or you are terminated. Lots of retaliation when speaking up about concerns specially with the pandemic since there has been numerous employees testing positive and they still have to work, which should be a red flag for the FDA since you handle food products. IF OSHA WAS TO AUDIT THAT PLACE IT WOULD SHUT IT DOWN, people are driving while taking calls and no one does anything. 

NO RAISES SO YOU ALWAYS MAKE THE SAME AMOUNT BECAUSE HR WILL FORGET ABOUT IT VERY OFTEN.

I was able to help make a dramatic impact on this operation. The employee morale improved, profits improved, the ethestic look of the operation improved, employee pay improved and quality improved. The amount of waste decreased, inventory became more accurate, deliveries were more timely and management interaction with the daily operation improve significantly. The typical day involved the production and shipping of finished and the receiving of raw materials. The co-workers had high morale and believed in what they were doing. The hardest part of the job later became dealing with the drama that began to engulf the work-place. I learned that a weakness in the upper echelon of any operation will trickle down to other parts of the operation and like a cancer will eat away at any success. There should always be a strong degree of professionalism within an operation that should never allow personal drama to intervene in the delegation and decision-making of any operation less failure is iminient.

•	Successfully help with the implementation of SAP 
•	Participate in monthly inventory by verifying the account and entering accounts into the system
•	Successfully monitor PSA levels and correct when needed.
•	Participate in weekly food safety meetings
•	Insure warehouse food safety by daily walk through 
•	Successfully  facilitate monthly safety meetings 
•	Successfully monitor re-work levels
•	Successfully monitor finish product FIFO (First In First Out)
•	Successfully monitor raw ingredients for FIFE (First In First Expired)
•	Conduct daily team meetings
•	Implemented logistic coordinator standard work
•	Successfully lead warehouse 2nd shift to a 50% increase outbound and inbound trucks
•	Successfully helped logistic department pass SQF Audit
•	Worked with co-workers to keep spending at or flat to budget
•	Successfully managed 2nd shifts logistics labor at or below budget 
•	Successfully managed off shift labor budget and performance 
•	Worked with production team leaders to lower the amount of ingredients in PSA by 25%
•	Working with department manager to cut turnover rate with employees  
•	Successfully conducted employee certifications

What is the best part of working at the company?
Horrible management not safe to work there. Management is more concerned with product output than safety. At least when I worked there from July of 2020 and February of 2021

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of good leadership and lack of safety. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Working environment in unsafe conditions and everyone is very negative due to the lack of good leadership no room for opportunity in growth

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Very busy from the moment you walk in which isn’t horrible it is a job but trying to make the place better while management telling you that you’re not doing a good enough job criticizing your every decision. Running into many obstacles due to not having the tools you need on a daily basis.

There is some room to grow here and you get some decent benefits once you make it past the probationary period. But negative politics ingrained into the culture of the company stemming from the overwhelming favoritism (in favor of any Spanish employees) make the daily grind a drag (not to mention employees getting promoted to inappropriate positions based on their actual skill or qualifications). I've encountered a great deal of racism, negativity, and ignorance (especially from the floor employees where there is pretty much no bar to measure or set standards). I did enjoy learning new software, getting to know my own teammates, and learning about mechanical and electrical parts/processes.

The management is terrible and the HR is the worst I have seen. They change your schedule whenever they want regardless of what you want or need. They may change the schedule twice in the same week. They expect you to adjust to what they want with little or no warning. The employees are good usually same as most companies. Management is totally inept at any form of advanced planning. They say there is an open door policy, however, it will get you nowhere to try to complain about anyone in management. The training is poor at best and is basically CYA. The environment is terrible due too the fact that it is all about “let’s look good” and not about truly being good. The supplies and training to do your job are inadequate. The only reason for any success this company has is the hard working and adaptable employees.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production operator 18 salaries reported	$22.50 per hour
Forklift operator 9 salaries reported	$22.01 per hour
Mixer 7 salaries reported	$23.56 per hour
Maintenance technician 1 salary reported	$39.54 per hour
Sanitation worker 4 salaries reported	$21.63 per hour

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