inspector/packer

quality assurance inspector

technician

manufacturing technician

automation technician

Carclo Technical Plastics

You will be trained on about different 6 machines in 3 shifts if they have them available. You might be stuck training on 1 machine 2 days in a row so you don't get to experience other machines. There's probably like 40 different machines and parts. This is a problem when you come to work for real the first day and you only know how to use 2/6 of the machines you've been assigned.
Some days you will sit at one machine and do barely anything. Other days you will work 6 machines at the same time, some not even in the same room.
It's very confusing why it is so unbalanced like this. Some days they have too many people and they have to find work for you to do (Even just sweeping, etc.) Some days there are not enough people working and you have to balance a ton of different machines (that you will have not been trained on, by the way). And it is your fault if everything falls apart.
Often when you come in there are not enough boxes, totes, bags, etc. for you to work more than 30 minutes so you have to leave your machine and deliver a note to the warehouse that you need more boxes or whatever. But you cannot let parts fall to the floor or in a scrap bin. And if you leave your machine for too long lots of them have alarms that go off and you will get in trouble. So good luck figuring out that one. And then you have to hope the warehouse actually has what you need.

Fire all supervisors and those that have allowed them to keep their positions for so long. Bring someone in to restructure the entire process.

The Carclo of 2020 was a fun place to work. Honestly, just about everything about this place felt like it was a growing, secure company for which to work, and coming into work every day felt refreshing after working at three other mfg plants prior to this one. 

Enter 2022, most of management has changed, nothing is run right on the higher end of things, you're not appreciated as an operator or next level employee (QC, supervisors, techs)...If you do something good, they ignore it and focus on whatever you did wrong (even if it's petty). Their HR group is nearly nonexistent except payroll/benefits coordinator (who is excellent and on-point), but besides that, HR never responds and nepotism is their favorite thing. The whole company has a closed door policy, and it doesn't help that half of upper management is off-site from their mfg plant. Their attendance policy is too strict, but it only hurts the  good employees...employees with bad attendance still get away with murder. Finally, there's no work/life balance and the company culture SUCKS. The whole company is full of negativity and strife. 

It might get better in a few months time, but it pains me to say this (because it was at one point a very fun place to go to work everyday), but I cannot recommend working here. Unless you love drama, immaturity, negativity, being crapped on for doing a good job, inappropriate behavior, and having everyone else's responsibilities dumped onto you because HR can't do their job...you're better off steering clear unless you're desperate for work.

The place has no advancement opportunities like they claim to have. The workers are treated like garbage. You are just a number and if you dont fit in with the clicks you get harrassed by them. Ive been there for 5 1/2 years now and dont make much more than someone coming in off the street. If you get harrassed by someone and tell management nothing gets done about it. You put your body and health at risk doing the job. Then the medical insurance doesnt cover for you to take care of yourself for the things that are being caused by the job. God forbid you have an ongoing medical condition that you need daily meds for because the prescription coverage is horrible. Only good medical part is the vision coverage. You are expected to run at least 3 machines plus make all the supplies for those machines but if you try to preprep so you can inspect the product more throughly you get bitched at. If you are fast and good at your job you are expected to do way more for the same amount of pay. They fire good hard workers and keep lazy workers that cant do their job right, leave early, come in late, and just plain dont show up at all. Some supervisors arent that bad to work with. The enviroment there is like being back in school having the clicks that pick on the loaners.

When I started out, the work-life balance was fairly good. 12 hour shifts are long, but the 2-2-3 schedule affords a three-day weekend every other week. Now operators are being forced to do an additional 12 hours of overtime on one of our days off because management made promises they couldn’t keep to their customers. There is little to no communication from supervisors, and lots of confusion about how processes are actually supposed to be carried out. You’ll be overworked and under appreciated if you are any flavor of capable of completing your job. Laziness and incompetence are rampant here, as well as cliques. They’re so understaffed, you won’t get fired unless you really screw up, which means there are a lot of people still working there who should’ve been fired by now. 

Mandatory overtime, week by week. A person cannot plan anything because they may be scheduled on their days off. Management is running the place into the ground. This place has a higher turnover rate than any restaurant. They lie to get people to work. Frozen wages. Stocks are tanking. Siemens is appraising the Export building. Some people used their PTO and or sold it back and quit, so they completely reworked the PTO system. A second year employee used to be entitled to 10 PTO days. Now everyone is at zero, having to earn their PTO. The people who did it are long gone and they're punishing current and future employees for the actions of past long gone employees. I was there 1 ½ years. When I started stocks were over $20 a share, now they're at $8. The place is going under and anyone making money there is just squeezing it dry until it's collapses in on itself. 

If you want a job that’s full of high school drama and clicks then you have come to the right place. If you’re not the supervisors drinking buddy or friends with his daughter then you will get treated like a number. If you’re in the click then you can talk back to other management and do whatever you want like not coming to work, leaving when you want, or standing around doing nothing without getting in trouble. You get overworked when you are not in the click. You will work presses that you can’t leave unless someone relieves you, good luck with that. The drama click gets presses that they can leave unattended for hours so they can do nothing. Rules are never followed there. Nobody is to be left alone in the 550 building but they had no problem leaving me there for 2 hours by myself, yep because I’m not in the drama click

What is the best part of working at the company?
They do not promote from with in and they pay new hires more money for the same position title and you have to train them. There's to much nepotism. Not really a good place to work if your trying to build a career.  To many people are in their positions because of who they know not what they know

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They hire based on what the employee says not knows. So when the employee is hired not having the right mechanical knowledge it's up to another less compensated technician to complete the task with a lot of resentment 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Like being back in highschool. To many clicks and little groups to try to fit into

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Its like being the 3rd monkey 🐒🐵 trying to get Noah's ark

What is the best part of working at the company?
Ability to clean up after people, and running around with your head cut off 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack in training, communication, paying there health insurance. Dirty bathroom/ break room 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is small and compact. No room to do anything. Management is terrible and don’t care about you. Foreman doesn’t help operators when machine problems occur 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Being left behind and forced to run 3+ multiple presses… nobody there is long term. Benefits are terrible. PTO is not always accepted. No bonus, no increase in nothing

This is the best job I’ve ever had. I make a good amount of money because the overtime is always available . Right now they are even paying us double time to come in on our off days. I work night shift which is better for me.  I’ve never been one to focus on wages. Hours are where the money is at. If you do your job, have good attendance, then you will receive the respect you earn. Even when I was a machine operator I enjoyed the fast paced work. They moved me up very quickly. Don’t listen to the negative comments. People that cause drama or have bad attendance and attitudes of course will have something bad to say.  We need hard dedicated workers here at the export plant . Give it a shot

Poor excuse of a company run by incompetent people. If your not a drinking or golfing buddy your nobody. If you have a life or a family your gone. If you disagree or protest anything they say your gone. Pay is minimal especially sense they add other peoples jobs to your work load and punish if you cant complete it, meanwhile other workers stand around and talk. Management has no problem yelling and cursing at you when you dont do what they think your suppose to do. DO NOT GO HERE. Worked here for over a year and seen a lot of good people and workers chased out because they wouldent worship the bosses. Had an outbreak and hid it from workers so it wouldent affect the bottom line.

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