chemist

senior market analyst

quality control associate

market analyst

environmental health and safety officer

Greenfield Global

Worked there for three years, rose through ranks in lab until I was offered a position as validation specialist. Pay went from reasonable hourly to abundant salary. However management restructured (although MY manager thought my work was stellar, and further more: necessary)  and eliminated position with no warning. I was invited to stay on and keep my salary but return to the lab. Great in theory but conflict internally led two extremely talented managers to leave. 
Eventually I left too, and more followed. More accurately, the lack of work-life balance and reasonable accommodations; the extremely high pace with no tolerance for mistakes and NO RESOURCES AFFORDED except rearranging the lab several times, it destroyed my drive until I was asked to leave. I'm far from proud of that, it took me a long time realize that my part in it, and that my position in Greenfield just wasn't for ME. I feel that this is important to consider before taking on a position at Greenfield. In Brookfield, it used to be a small company and there are serious growing pains. One must be ready for that.
 I had multiple opportunities to rise and manage projects and although I took them, they led nowhere. Many of my projects were reassigned priority and never seen through by the handed off personnel. Despite the successful starts of all my projects, or the successful finishing of others that I was assigned to take over, management never used the data or new management would change their vision (again) and months of work would be filed in a regularly flooding basement. 
The VP of Quality is particularly micromanaging and undermines her staff regularly; insisting on strict rules to be adhered to, only to make exceptions herself, often creating distrust between production or sales and quality (ie when production may have just been told "remix/resample" by quality, as instructed, only to have decision overturned by VP). Upper management puts excessive pressure on Production managers, Quality Managers, and Sales managers, who in turn pit their departments against each other, sewing seeds of resentment and creating verbal episodes or "ventings". This occurrence was routine and disheartening. 

But the pay was good, so they've got that going from them.

Typical work day as a customer service representative includes processing purchase orders submitted by customers, responding to customer inquiries via phone and email and resolving freight and receivable good issues. Work environment is in an office setting and employees will be working from their desk 95% of the workday.

I learned how to deal with customer issues in a professional and appropriate manner. My organizational skills improved immensely, as there is a great deal of multi-tasking involved in the customer service representative position. 

Customer services immediate supervisor did their best with the resources they were given. The Kentucky office rarely encounters management. Most department heads work from home, or they're based at other locations. Customer service reps mainly come into contact with management when an issue arises. No HR representatives at the KY department, which causes many department issues to go unresolved.

Workplace culture is cut-throat. Departments do not communicate properly with each other. In most cases sales will put blame on other departments and will not take accountability for their mistakes. Unfortunately, if your not in sales you will most likely be treated as if you were on a lower tier. A few bad apples created a highly toxic work environment and unfortunately other employees have to work in an unpleasant environment.

The job was very stressful, as management required the customer service department to meet unattainable numbers. Dealing with the few toxic employees and unable to talk to an on-site HR rep when needed. 

Even with management assigning unattainable goals and the few bad apples that were given free reign to wreck havoc, there were many employees who are truly amazing individuals. When we were able to become a team, things would get done.

Greenfield Global in Winnebago has the potential to be great, but falls short due to some management decisions. I used to work at Corn Plus (The company that was originally running the plant) and they reached out to me and wanted me to come back. When I was there they went to straight days and nights which Condition for me to come work there, and they told me they were going "Safety First" and having everything by the book. However since they went straight days and nights (I was on the Night Shift) the HSE Manager expected night shift to come in at 1pm for a 2 hour safety training when they worked the night before and also work that same night... how is that safety first if you can't get adequate sleep? Also there was little to no training for the LOTO procedures, we had one shutdown and everything was completely disorganized, normally you would think they would have a plant SOP showing you all the LOTO points but there was none. Also we would go lock something out at night and dissemble the line then Day Shift would go and unlock the equipment with the line still being dismembered. Also to top everything off I found out a week after I left the Corperate representative came down and FORCED everyone back to the swing shift... im just happy I got out when I did.

Every day is an adventure at Pharmco. It was extremely fast paced but a company I enjoyed working for. Over all the people were great but the chain of command was not enforced and it made situations difficult to deal with often. A typical day would start off with me meeting with my direct reports and going over their work schedules with them. I would then find myself in meeting after meeting without any correspondence with the happenings of the production floor. Once able to get to the floor, I'd find additions and subtractions to the schedule with little or no input and little time to adjust and react. This became a culture and a daily challenge I accepted with an open mind. I rarely if ever took a break (lunch) and often found myself working 11 to 12 hour days as well as Saturdays. 
  I met some wonderful people both peers and direct reports, as well as people who were concerned with only themselves and without regard to Pharmco.  I was rarely if ever able to meet with my supervisor (plant manager) and express my feelings or concerns even though it was mandated by the VP of manufacturing that we do so. It was though I did not have the backing or support of the responsibilities set before me.
  All in all, it was a job that I was fully committed and dedicated to, however, it just didn't work out.

When I started at Greenfield, I truly felt it was such a great company. Good pay, great people & culture, and employees were consistently shown appreciation. The job can definitely be high stress, but it felt the hard work was compensated. After a couple years, I started to notice a lot of changes in the work environment. Staff became short, people were getting cut with no replacements. The employees standing were expected to pick up that slack and add entire workloads to their own - working long hours and staying late with no appreciation, no compensation. Company budgets were being cut and it felt that executives were not being transparent about the current status of the company. This is ultimately what pushed me away.

Working in the lab specifically, we had such a strong team who did nothing but uplift each other through every difficult day. It is a great position to build your knowledge and experience in wet chemistry and instrumentation, quality control in and outside the lab, and communication/delegation with production. The ultimate challenge of this position is the lack of growth, regardless of how much knowledge you gain. Though, it is not impossible - so if you are determined to grow, just be prepared to put up a good fight. 

I worked under a lot of different people over my five summers at Pharmco. Most of my managers were delightful and easy to work for; they gave clear instructions and constructive feedback. 

Some of the projects were mind numbingly dull, but I like to think that the monotony of repetitive tasks helped me realized how stubborn and persistent I am once I set my mind to something. For example, I learned that a person can, in fact, PDF over thirty years of files in less than a week if they really dedicate themselves, and that finicky printers will mysteriously work better if you sweet talk them and give them pet names.  

The workplace culture is friendly and positive, especially the Sales Support Staff, and it is easy to get along with people when they (and you) are maintaining a positive, teamwork oriented attitude.

Greenfield Global is a truly amazing company and has the best intentions for the health and sustainability of our planet. The MAIN issue with Greenfield is their management. Their Directors/Managers are unexperienced for their roles, therefore, issues do not get addressed in a professional "fair" consistent manner as they should. The Customer Service Manager manages 10+ CSR's and does not even know the roles and processes for his own department. How can someone direct, plan & manage a department with very little knowledge of the department they are responsible for ? And does not even show interest in gaining the knowledge needed to manage a very diverse group of individuals. Greenfield is a very chaotic work environmemt - you must have very tough skin to handle this place.

I didn’t work here very long and found this job very tedious.  I was a temp and went in with an open mind.  I did what they call bag and tag most days and that was fine,  but it can get boring after a while.  There were no mats,  so you were standing on concrete for 8 hours a day which can strain your back.  Two days there I did something different and the second time I did drums.  Needless to say,  I knew it wasn’t for me and they ended up getting rid of me.  They never explained why they got rid of me,  but I think this was it.  I did move recently and had been exhausted from that as well which may have affected my performance, but give people a chance to learn and grow before tossing them out like garbage.

A typical day at work consisted of arriving early dressed in uniform and production of ethyl alcohols would take place throughout most of the day. I learned a lot of what goes into shipping and receiving along with mixing ethyl alcohols. My co-workers were great to be around and very willing to explain something that was new to me. The hardest part of the job was staying on track, there was a lot of work to be done daily so making sure everything got done day in and day out was somewhat challenging.

Greenfield is a diversified chemical company operating in a number of exciting markets including distilled spirits, pharmaceuticals, extraction, and fuel.  The "growing pains" can definitely be felt at times, but they are good problems to have.  The business is doing well and management is constantly making efforts to better organize the team and put better processes in place to support the growth.  You have to make the effort to stick out and shine here, but that is a good thing for someone looking to accelerate their career growth.

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