machine adjuster

machine operator

packer

adjuster

industrial mechanic

Cenveo

Many people have many negative things to say, but you will also find negative things about any employer out there. This place could've been better if ran better from above.All decisions come from corporate, and it often seems that corporate is far more interested in paying themselves and their stock holders, rather than making sound decisions for all.

Communication is always lacking, and when there is actual communication, it's the complete opposite of what was passed down previously. Up until recently this was the norm. Now communication happens more often and is more direct and honest.

Management changes, and there are people brought in by corporate that have no experience in the fields that they were hired for. Some feel that management doesn't care about the employees, and many feel that corporate cares even less.

Training was always lacking and never made available for any program and ERP used. For a large corporate printer, you would think that they would like to educate their employees in the printing process instead of just dropping the employees into the pool of sharks and letting them fend for themselves. Many call this the Cenveo Way. Most employees have worked their way around this by creating how to charts, or have made themselves available even  after their departure from the company.

No raises or other type of compensation for some people for over 8 years, and many who have been salaried and are non-management have had to take pay cuts to keep their jobs. 

This particular location has many wonderful and talented good people, but corporate has made many poor decisions and now the plant is closing, forcing many people out. This location was producing profit, and was told that the location would not be closed. Obviously that's no longer true.

Poor decision making with no compensation had led to many  employees leaving the company with none being replaced. The general attitude sometimes feel like one of apathy rather than enjoyment and pride.

If the correct direction would've been taken, many things would be different, and many people would still be employeed today. The employees were willing to do many things to keep us moving forward and ahead.

This company cares absolutely NOTHING for its employees and their families. Long hours every single day. They do not believe in work life balance at all. Work shifts are 12 hrs rotating from days to nights working every day!  They don't want you to have any days off! If you work in the press room, you don't even get a lunch. If you want to eat you have to eat while you work (for 12 hours)! Beware because management and owners do not believe you need more than 1-2 weeks of vacation. And get this, vacation time encompasses sick days AND vacation. Is this a slave mentality company or what? No wonder they're bankruptcy material. These people running the company have no idea of how to really run a company. There's no business innovation, marketing concepts.....no business sense or ethic whatsoever! So, if you're thinking about working for this company.....DON'T! It would be the biggest mistake of your life. I suggest working for a company that really gives **** about their employees and knows that if your employees are somewhat happy, the company will succeed. But, hey maybe that's it.....the owners don't want it to succeed!

Typical work day would entail making sure all 100+ invoices per day were entered to the system so Corporate AP could process payments off the data in accordance to their terms policy.  I learned much more about the relationships between sales and use tax while working in the print industry. Management at the plant level was wondrous, and have added quite a few to my network.  Management of cash flow at the Corporate level left much to me to desire, and yet I still attempted to entertain the idea that some "management companies" that initiate hostile takeovers might amount to benefits to the company they take over.  NEVER again.  Though the hardest part of my job was vendor reconciliation in the wake of Cenveo's cash flow discrepancies, I feel I have acquired quite a folio of experience I could call upon should the need arise while serving others.  My most enjoyable part of this job? ... all aforementioned experience made me feel part of the team.

Cenveo is a great place to work if you like working with great professional people. It is not a great place to work if you are looking to advance within the company or hoping to achieve a great deal of success. People there have not received a single raise in six years, and while the company seems to be investing a lot of resources in bringing the business into the 21st century, they seem to ignore their employees, and thus create a less than enjoyable work experience. A lot of people who have been there years are starting to leave (the great exodus) and I can't help but wonder if because of this, the business itself is going to falter.
A lean, yet rather inexperienced staff might help save a few dollars, but will do very little for your reputation in a field that is already becoming increasingly hostile and competitive.

Perhaps this company is best viewed in the present as a stepping stone, a place to achieve a lot of experience with very little compensation to encourage long-term growth.

My Exton Division of National Envelope was purchased by Cenveo in Sep of 2013. While initially there was worry that we were going to be closed right away, we were kept open as the tried to make us profitable. Steps and procedures were implemented to help us reach their goals. While we broke even, we never really hit their mark. As the year went on, the agreement with the company that leased the building was ending, Cenveo attempted to strike a deal/find another facility to locate us too, in the end, it didn't work and we are scheduled to be shut down for good the last working day of August. While I enjoyed working with my co-workers, Cenveo themselves never introduced themselves to us after the purchase and never interviewed us to find our strengths/weaknesses. I think that would be important if you really want to improve and grow and keep the people you had under you. In short I think they just wanted our machines, some of which are being sent to other facilities within the company.


	Lead, train, direct, appraise and mentor a team of    
operators and printers plus weekly Payroll
•	Ordering monthly supplies for prepress and printing 
•	Conduct monthly safety meetings
•	Complete monthly inventory 
•	Create daily schedule for the presses 
•	Order daily inventory for the presses
•	Perform conventional stripping daily for all presses 
•	Created set-up and run procedures for presses
•	Monitor task productions 
•	Run and maintain machines: 
•	Create plates for flexo Printing Equipment in other departments
•	Record and track ink usage and waste
•	Record and track production waste and run units to the standards
•	Communicate with Sales Service & Customers about expectations & concerns regarding orders 
 

•	Trained in CPR/First Aid. Member of first response team.
•	Perfect attendance for over 28 years 
•	Under my tenure as a supervisor, there has never been an OSHA recordable lost time accident reported within our department.


Managers have little knowledge of how to treat employees and even less knowledge of what it takes to run their departments. Company politics prevents issues from being addressed and corrected at the root cause. You either work 12 hour days 7 days a week, or barely work at all, even as little as 1 or 2 days a week for weeks at a time. They do not properly fix equipment,, constantly trying to get by with antiquated machines that are run down and never repaired properly due to lack of money. Cenveo just got out of bankruptcy and will soon find itself insolvent. If you want to be unappreciated and micro managed by a supervisor who has no idea what your job entails, let alone what he is supposed to do, this is the job for you. If you want to work for a company that will be out of business soon. This is the place. Managers give credit to those who suck up to them, rather than to those who do their jobs.  Worst career choice I have ever made. My co-workers were the absolute best part of the job.

After working there as a temp I was hired.With little training and 0 prior experience I was thrown in to an operator position. I found the communication between departments and even different shifts was faulty to non-existant. Everyone "competing " for first shift jobs that require 0 responsibility. Only two mangers in the place had clue as to what machines reqired to get a quality job done. There seemed to be a general lack of consideration for whats being produced,Just clock in do the time go home.Worked third shift for a year without attending any " events " employee appreciation\safetymeetings the list goes on. The plant manager
and front end manager were the only people who seemed to understand what was going on at any particular time.And they were burned out just didn't care anymore. This a prime place to develope hypertension and exacerbate any other health issues you might have relating to stress

I was a printing press operator at the Jefferson City plant. The work day varied from 8-12 hours with very little advance notice from the supervisors. Most of the time they would wait by the time clock at end of shift and send you back to work for 3 of 4 more hours. Worked 6 days a week for over a year, no family time and if you wanted a day off you were given a disciplinary point. The machines are very old and break down constantly, any interruption of production means you work until your quota was met. The printed labels looked awful due to the decrepit machinery but production had to go out. Most of the work coming out of that plant looked like cow fertilizer and management was fine with that....as long as you made your numbers. The pay is good but the conditions are awful, no A/C, filthy bathroom, tobacco spit and spit cups left all over the plant. Work there if you don't have or don't want a life.

I worked for approximately a year and a half for Cenveo Corp, at their Printegra building running up to three encoders at a time.  They would have us come in on a Monday for normal eight hour shifts and then tell us that we would have to work the rest of the week on 10 hour days.  By Wednesday they would up that to 12 hour days and mandatory eight hour shifts on Saturday and Sunday.  By the next Monday we would be sent home after only four hours because although they had made their quota they had far exceeded their manpower budget.  People were being laid off on a monthly basis and the remaining employees were expected to perform the functions of two, sometimes three employees.  The supervisor had previously been in our pre-printing department and had very little experience managing people or work-flows and was given very little if any training.  Not a good experience overall.

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