truck driver

quality assurance manager

production worker

operario producción

sales coordinator

Fresh Del Monte

Fast paced environment, specially when understaffed. At times I found myself having to do three people's jobs simultaneously with very little help or concern from management. Extremely unorganized at one point my schedule was changing weekly because of the unstable crew we had. Severe lack of communication within management, changes in scheduling don't get passed along, notifications of production issues go unnoticed repeatedly. A basically nonexistent and chaotic training regiment, just pretty much have to keep along or fall off. Team meetings are basically nonexistent as well. The production crew is outsourced to another company and not under Del Monte creating constant opposition between both companies when issues arise, neither want to take responsibility and it affects coercion and teamwork, production workers are rude and apathetic to their job with little concern for safety and quality with little to no repercussions. Unfortunately there's also a big language barrier between QA and production. The standards that were shown to me when I got there where basically changed by when I left and at times I found not even being able to do my job correctly. Tools/gadgets are outdated and fail every other day. The main issue is management, in ALL areas, this problem stems from the top to bottom, during my time there we went through 3 facility managers, 2 QA managers, 2 supervisors and over 25 different technicians. This is is a good place to get lots of experience, as there's a lot to learn and a lot of times I was put to do jobs that weren't even within my direct job description.

My advice stay away. If it's just about the money for you go because it pays 13 p/h and 19.50 over 40 if you like working 6 days a week mandatory and you only get one 30-45 minute break no matter what time you're getting off. I had developed a habit of calling off an additional day a week because I was dealing with very dark depression but that was set to change after I climbed out of it. Two weeks ago now I resumed my 6 days a week but little did I know the new schedule would display me working 11 days straight. Cry wolf for crying out loud no one wants to work a mandatory 11 day week so upon seeing it I called off rather than risk confirtation with the idiot who made the schedule. Little did I know upon returning to work on Sunday I would be removed from the roaster and told by the ***** in charge that they would call me in a week or two a few short days later. I was doing everything I could to hang on to the job, it was the job that was supposed to get me through until I could find a better one but I wasn't even looking yet. Now don't get me wrong they may be responsible for the vast majority of wrong comited here but I wasn't being entirely truthful with myself when I failed repeatedly to tell them I was dealing with serious depression instead coming up with random excuses. Does this dignify there actions at all? Absolutely not. You have no idea how much I just report them.

This particular location has an extreme lack of coordination in every department. From the warehouse, sales and their office. The Sales office is like a shark tank, high cut throat and no teamwork at all. The hardest part was trying to learn a system that everyone kept describing as difficult. Let me judge it on my own, before you start your uncalled for biases about what I need to learn. It totally diminished my morale.There is a high turnover rate in the corporate office so every once in a while, you'll get a nasty email describing something you did was done in error. Yet 90% of the time its them not understanding their job. I would NOT recommend this company to anyone. I understand the difficulty of landing a job in this economy, especially if you are looking to grow. There is no space to grow in the Santa Fe Springs Office. Once you learn something management's goal is to keep you there for as long as you decide you actually don't want to be squished into pulp from all the pressure of keeping company secrets. Although my pay was crumby, and my manager promised things they were not able to fulfill, I was able to handle a lot of my family issues that arose during my tenure there.

And by that I mean anybody in a leadership or in charge position from QC to managers they are rude and very disrespectful to employees. There is little to no training or actual help learning in any position at this facility. The managers and higher ups I had were rude, did not care about anybody who’s actually making the building stay open. Production and packaging employees get treated like worthless nothings, and the turnover rate is exceedingly high. There is no emplamentation set in place to help anybody who is doing the actual hard labor work to get trained and learn what or how to do their job so when they are confused and lost they get a bunch or write ups and scoldings from the higher supervisors and ultimately they end up fired due to not being train properly. I personally was discriminated against because I was a white male and did not speak Spanish by my immediate supervisors and by managerial staff. When I brought the issue up to the proper managers I was told that it was “All in fun” and “Don’t have such soft skin”. Bottom line is, it is a horrible place to work unless you are a paper pusher or supervisor for the buildings.(Atleast in my time there it was.)

Managed all aspects of expenses cost allocations for accuracy and complete application. Determined avg cost for a dozen different fruit and vegetable lines, ensuring labor was reported accurately for each line.

Learned 3 different software systems and every detail I could about the produce industry. Also, that I could manage the volume of over 1MM lbs of pineapple monthly.

Local management kept changing, but was able to work within their needs, being a key contributor and mentor about the facility.

Co-workers were focused on the required standards of product production and quality. Most were willing to partner with me to succeed in the common goals of the company.

Hardest part of the job were the technical tools I needed to perform my duties were lacking. Company did not invest in updating software or hardware to streamline processes.

Enjoyable part of the job was seeing the fruits(pun intended) of my efforts improve the success of the location and the working environment for the employees.

Long hours, poor management from production supervisors to maintenance manager. Plant managers that we had didn't know how to run a plant. co-workers were the best part of the job. Compensation wasn't that great and the benefits were a joke. Without any notice they laid off 230 full time employees. They did provide a severance of paid leave for 60 days. Learned that at this company, the only way to advance was to brown nose your way up. The pay wasn't based on what you knew or how well you worked. Some of the co-workers were able to do what they liked such as have cell phones, leave for lunch, leave for any reason at that, take days off when they wanted, and just plain out not do anything while they were there and let others pick up their slack. Those were the favorites of the management. Also management lived by different rules then what the hourly employees lived by. Horrible place to work in my opinion.

A typical day at work consist of payroll and or account payable/recieviables task. I would check emails for any timeshett errors make corrections to timesheet reset and passwords for adp accounts, submit time and payroll data to adp for pay. Use a ERP oracle based platform to create and submit invoices for contractor atleast 150 per day. More task to follow.

I have learned to manage time and task to get a stressful job done. This is my first payroll and accounting job. Following S.O.Ps made it easy to give the company what it needs without any mistakes.

Management was good. Not alot of communication between management and employees. 

Work place culture is great.

The only part of my job that I may have had a challenge with was the launguage barrier. There is a heavy latin poputaion at this current employer.

The most enjoyable part of the job is learning new function gaining more experience with a great cast of employees.

was great place to work had 7 plant managers in my term of working there each one had differnt idea how make the numbers to keep plant open so i aquired alot of differnt ideas and differnt types of training,thru my years there i was only driver they assigned to load and unload rail cars due to fact rail car goes across the states back to east coast product gets knocked around alot securing loads for transportaion back east just became my main job.was a member safety comitte we walked warehouse finding possible unsafe scenairos and then went to discuss with in the group and people involved were notice possibility of a accident to happen and found best way make it a safe work enviromentn. lean training supervisor was job i want focus on for my future

I am thankful for Del Monte Foods where I got a very broad experience in my field that I know it will open the doors for my professional career in the future. On the other hand, it is a very hostile and anachronistic place to work. At least in the Coral Gables office they do not seek for the betterment and efficiency of the working environment. They do not offer paternity leaves, instead, they make you take your vacation time first, and a couple of weeks unpaid. There is not parking place; therefore, it is required to park on the streets in a meter out of your own pocket. They rather have someone to do as they say that having someone with autonomy looking for a better work flow and environment. The year end bonus is literally a pineapple and a calendar. It is a very good place to acquire experience but not to stay long.

I was fortunate to work on every shift with awesome supervisors, which always gave me the opportunity to learn new skills and work on different machines. The management was almost always fair to everyone if they missed something that wasn't right they would correct it as soon as they became aware of the problem. Co-workers were very helpful towards one another if someone had their machine break or a mess was made we would all help each other out. The hardest part of the job would sometimes be the lifting if machines broke down. Thankfully the supervisors wouldn't give us to much to handle, they always made sure we had enough help. The most enjoyable part of the job was working as a team as we did everyday. I honestly enjoyed going to work, working along side each one of my co-workers.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 52 salaries reported	$83,365 per year
Quality assurance manager 11 salaries reported	$62,364 per year
Production worker 31 salaries reported	$12.66 per hour
Operario producción 27 salaries reported	$12.73 per hour
Sales coordinator 2 salaries reported	$54,500 per year

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