associate

production associate

production

warehouse associate

quality control lab technician

HB Specialty Foods

job culture sucks, corporate wants facility to mirror themselves, but with poor management decisions throughout facilities employee morale is in the dumps.
Management has their favorites, so no matter if you try your hardest- you never will be good enough in their eyes.
Unless of course you are willing to go out drinking with them after work and on weekends-- then you are a winner and no matter how much you screw up, they will blame someone else so that you won't get in trouble..

They need to clean house in upper management, and hold them accountable for the screw ups that are happening under their noses--before getting rid of the workers that are dedicated and are striving to make the change in culture happen. 
Also- upper management need to award the workers for their hard work and dedication instead of telling them to "TRY HARDER"
and maybe you might get a bonus check instead of a post-it note in a Christmas card with these same words

Stay away from this company unless you are a glutton for punishment, don't like to spend time with your family and want to work 96 hours + a week and get paid for 40.

Management has changed hands numerous times since I have worked here. In my opinion the current management is more concerned with numbers than employees. Some workers haven't seen a raise in more than three years. 

The people I work most closely with are good people. I get along with my co-workers well and work hard every day. I have not missed a day because of sickness since I started.

A typical day at work includes production inventory list, loading, transporting and unloading product. Maintaining production inventory throughout the day(5AM to 1:30PM). Some shipping and receiving included. Also cleaning and organizing warehouses.

I've learned to use inventory management programs and spreadsheets.

The most enjoyable part of the job is driving the trucks. I love driving trucks.

If upper management likes you, you are golden.  But do one thing someone doesn't agree with, or disagree with them, and you will fall from their graces and be treated poorly.  Watch your back, these people with run you over with a bus, back it up and run you over again.  There is a push to change the culture of this company, Management is putting it on the employees to "make it happen", but then refuse to make the changes needed in management to see the changes they want accomplished.  Management's decisions make it impossible to meet production goals.  Goals that are set are unrealistic and unreachable. For the most part co-workers are great!  friendly and helpful.  It is upper management that makes it such a difficult place to be happy.  Benefits are just OK, Compensation sucks. No room for advancement.

Management cares only about making themselves look good to the CEO. In reality, this means the only ones who get yearly pay raises are the Supervisors and Managers while everyone under them go without. When it comes to the quarterly bonus for the people who actually bust their backs, the production workers, it is always slow to reach the paycheck and is a small bonus.

Bottom line: Management is a "Boys club" who are overpaid for cracking the whip on the lower class production workers while they get an "Attaboy" for not giving pay increases to those who deserve it and they wonder why the turnover rate is so high?

In my area my manager really cares about his people. He does all he can to accommodate to your life events.  I don’t seem to have an issue with my coworkers. But, like all people I do see some friction between them. HB is a good place to work if you are an active person. If you like to cut corners you will not last long. The bad is they don’t seem to promote from within at the lower levels, competitive wages are not in there vocabulary and they don’t know what forward thinking is on projects (everything is reactionary) and no bonuses/profit sharing. I see a lot of lower paid employees come and go due to more money elsewhere. 

Company doesn't see or care to fix the issues that are causing slow production, major loss of product, they would rather tell their most excellent, hard working employees to work faster, There are and has been excellent employees, that bust their butt, HB seems not to appreciate that, and the attitude and failure to compensate fairly prove that. It will only keep HB stagnant. Trust your employees, pay your employees, and the payback is felt shorty, but people must stop being selfish,and open their eyes.

We work 10 hour shifts with no breaks only the 30min lunch while working hard to fill  the quota set by management with little or no resources to do the job.
The employees are upset and overworked and do not like helping the other departments. The management team is hostile to the employees and never fullfill the promise of getting the employees the bonus they deserve after meeting the production demand.
The hardest part was the increasing product demand without any pay increase or bonus or resources needed.
The only enjoyable part of the day was lunch

I honestly have to say, this job has is not worth staying more than 6 months. You work 6 days a week, management is not there 6 days a week, they do not train well enough for advancement, they care more about the product than the workers. Management does not answer calls when they go home, and they don’t care enough to call or text if you stay late past normal time after shutdown, shifts make horrid mistakes and other shifts have to make up and fix them and nobody is reprimanded for any negative response from other shifts

After getting high scores on food safety audits, the company has been growing so fast. They do have a problem with the scheduling and ensuring that we have enough people to run the product. It has been hard on keeping employees cause the company pays a little lower than the other companies around. Also the company only gives a 30 minute unpaid lunch and no additional breaks on a 10 hour shift.

It started out promising and I soon learned there was no support from the management. I figured out the job and enjoyed it when it was steady. I felt like I was doing a great job. Never thought otherwise, no indication from management that I wasn't. Then a month later they pull me aside and say welp we are letting you go. When I asked why they said they didn't need to disclose that information. Handed me a letter that still gave me no clue as to why and sent me on my way. Completely disrespectful and surprising. Sad really. I am a great employee and have an amazing work ethic. Their loss. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Associate 6 salaries reported	$16.63 per hour
Production associate 76 salaries reported	$16.58 per hour
Production 2 salaries reported	$17.50 per hour
Warehouse associate 8 salaries reported	$17.00 per hour
Quality control lab technician 11 salaries reported	$16.70 per hour

Working at HB Specialty Foods: Company Overview and Reviews

HB Specialty Foods

HB Specialty Foods Ratings

Popular jobs at HB Specialty Foods

Salary Satisfaction

Job Seeker Tools

Employer Tools

Browse

Stay Connected