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Grassland Dairy Products

Good company. Great benefits. Half hour paid lunch. Work isn't hard. Employees are all good people. Management lacks. They are more worried about how they look rather than helping you succeed. They say they have work life balance but they don't and the more you give the more they expect. I worked there 10 years and was never able to advance, so I left the money and benefits were not worth the hassle of dealing with the management and HR is not any better. If your are a yes person people pleaser this is the place for you. But don't get hurt there, they will treat you like garbage and give you unreasonable jobs while you are trying to heal they try and give you jobs that go against your restrictions to see if your dumb enough to do it. I personally never was hurt there, but I had friends get hurt and watched them go through a lot of stuff that should have never been.  The management they currently have on the butter production side. Let's just say Useless!!! Everyone of them.



 

Company has good benefits, but low pay considering the market wage for positions. At the end of the day, the benefits are really not that great, as you are not making what you should be making. 

It is very hit or miss on the positions, depending on which supervisor you fall under. Many workloads are heavy, to the point of being unrealistic.

There are many that treat employees in demeaning ways; it makes you hate going to work everyday. Thus, the job atmosphere for many is very poor...there is a large amount of turnover across the board, which is no surprise. The family that owns the company are down to earth and nice people (but they also are not the ones you work with all the time). There are also very nice people that work there.

Little to no room for advancement, unless you are related to someone or have been there for decades. The company simply grew too quickly, but the management did not.

A typical day at work is spent mostly in the control room every hour I have to go into the production areas and take samples and I try to walk through the floors a few times a night to look for problems.during my employment with Grassland I have learned about the value of a good safety program for both the company and the workers. Management has great to work with they listen to me when I share my ideas and treat everyone far. most of my co-workers are younger than me but we all seam to work together fine to spite our differences.The hardest part of my job is working in the hot dryer rooms.The most enjoyable part of my job is the many challenges there are with working with complex equipment and helping management improve production,quality, and safety in the plant.

Grassland knows exactly how to treat their employees, they train you well, they provide adequate safety equipment, treat you like a member of the team from the start, lots of opportunity for advancement, I loved working there. Grassland is very easy going when it comes to needing a vacation day or a PTO day, they offer vacation from the start and an exceptional amount of PTO. They are big enough that if someone calls in you don't need to work a 12 hour day, and you even get paid to change before and after a shift. Double time on weekends is great! And get a day off every week as well as ever other weekend!

What is the best part of working at the company?
Weekend double pay and that's about it

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Old machines that break down almost all the time or they crush things and make a mess all over the place

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Stressful fast paced, machines are old and need updating everyone is stressed and they usually take it out on one another

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
You go to work and have to fix like 3 machines at the same time without help or support while the lines are filling fast, butter is being crushed all over the place and things are all blamed on you

The health benefits of this company are great, and they frequently hold that over your head. Until they realize that that they can't continue to favor 3 area families and reward those who are doing the work and making improvements they will continue to lose quality employees. You truly are just a number here and not matter what you do or don't do you get squat. If you're looking for experience in the field they are hiring for, then it is a great steppingstone on your path. Those that have been here for a length of time are just afraid of change, they don't like it here, they just don't like the unknown more. 

A typical day at work involved running spray dryers and evaporators from a computer screen.  Sometimes we needed to shut down and prepare the dryers or evaporators for the next production run.

Working at Grassland Dairy I've learned a lot of how the food industry works and more particularly with how evaporators and dryers work.  My coworkers were very knowledgeable and Grassland Dairy has a very comprehensive training program with very educated management who freely share the more scientific principles of how the equipment worked with their employees.

Working here longer than most people have, I can say I unfortunately wouldn't recommend friends or family working there. Management is poor here, the people they hire are shady, the work ethic among people is sad. Good luck trying to get a vacation day or even use PTO. Constantly changing their policies for their benefit and not the workers. Supervisors, leads and the plant manager are rarely seen helping. The only good I seen was how well HR is at keeping that entire place running. 

grassland is great if you love being the only one on the "team" doing work.
grassland is great if you love a management that doesn't listen to feedback.
grassland is great if you never want to take vacations, because they don't approve vacation time without a good reason.
grassland is great if you love being thrown into positions with no training, then expected to perform that position flawlessly after a week.
grassland is "great" for many reasons, none of which are actually great.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay was good. The supervisor was kind and understanding.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Working overnights. The schedule is 7 straight days one week and day off then work 4 with 2 days.. alternating.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Fast and clean. Most co workers are kind.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Change to whites. Wash up. Work 3-4 hours and get paid half hour lunch break. Work is usually busy and steady.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Machine operator 3 salaries reported	$23.40 per hour
Packaging operator 7 salaries reported	$23.20 per hour
Laboratory technician 4 salaries reported	$23.63 per hour
It support 1 salary reported	$29.50 per hour
Shipping and receiving clerk 7 salaries reported	$22.40 per hour

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