shipper/receiver

assembler

foam manufacturer

manufacturing specialist

truck driver

Index Packaging

 If you can survive with a little pay, this will be the position for you. So if you are the main provider at home and money is important to you this job is absolutely no good.
Before you take the job, make sure you talk to a driver first, because they are not being transparent. Stay away form the driver training, its a joke, the drivers who train you are inexperienced with bad habits. Plus they want you to stay with them for three years for 20$ hr. The benefits and pto time are horrible. The equipment you drive is absolutely horrible, trucks and trailers are trashed and old, they both barely pass DOT standards, and in fact the push things through the shop that are not correctly repaired. High turnover rate between drivers and plant workers. Another company that puts itself first over taking care of valuable employees.  You'll get low hourly pay, hauling packaging materials, but mostly delivering pallets and picking up used pallets and broken wood, delivering crates and wood chips.



Local driving jobs, Home everyday. Drivers average 10 -12 hour days, hauling wood chips, pallets, scrap wood, packaging products, in 53' vans and flatbeds, and wood chip trailers throughout New England. All the runs are day runs with multiple trips. Trucks are 20 years old and rusted and roached. Trailers are the same, holes in floors, roofs, basically just falling apart. The equipment just barely passes dot standards. Trucks are always breaking down, trailers constantly red tagged. Ownership has No Pride in the fleet what so ever. Pay is below industry standard, management in the department is inexperienced. Benefits are available, medical, dental 401k, Not very good insurance. Company has a constant rotating door. Very unfortunate, company has potential to be way better than it is. Had to quit for a higher paying job with better benefits.

A typical day at work is getting to your job, and doing what's excepted from you from the time you show up until work is over. I leaned how to properly use air guns, operate machinery, and also how to work well with others. The management could have been more involved, and more aware on what was going on in the work area. Co-workers were as any Co-worker would be. your all in that work area for the day and you lean how to make it through the day adapting to everyone's individual personality. The hardest part of work I might say would be agreeing on different decisions throughout the day. The best part of the job would be meeting new people, creating relationships with each person you work with and doing the best you can to make the finished product.

My job requires me to be on the road most days working with customers and with our various locations.  
I have learned a lot about packaging manufacturing in addition to raw materials and packaging design.  
Management is open to suggestion and always looking to improve on all aspects of the operation.  They also have a vision for future growth which will allow employees to excel in their careers.  
Workplace culture is very inclusive and nurturing. 
The hardest part of my job is time management and I am fortunate to have management that will assist me as needed.  
The most enjoyable part of my job is closing new business and helping customers solve their packaging problems.    

I have learned in my years of working at index that you are not an employee but a number. your contribution to this company will not be valued, nor will your attitude or dedication. Pay is slightly above the local walmart and will not  improve. the only way to move up is to move out. i have been the victim of abuse and so have many of the other people who work here. management exist solely to crack the whip and tear your sanity down bit by bit. Never in my life have I seen such a broken system. I have countless people leave due to the deep rooted dysfunction and low glass ceiling. Index will burn you out and throw you away. I would feel like a terrible person if i got someone a job here.

Management is a joke.  You are laughed at when safety is a concern.  Benefits are worthless, next to nothing along with pay.  When you work here long enough to have a paid vacation, they'll give your job away when you go on vacation.  Extremely unsafe work practices, and outdated machinery.  OSHA had fined this company multiple times for safety violations!  They do one cookout per year, only because they feel they have to.  You are better off collecting unemployment than working for this company.  If you want a stress free JOB with minimal safety concerns, then do yourself a favor and seek employment elsewhere!

You are pressured to be fast and be accurate right off the bat. They have no patience when it comes to learning. They will expect a lot and require a lot and you aren’t allowed to disagree. You are just another worker. Definitely don’t recommend for beginners to this kind of work. If you have been doing this kind of work for a while you will be fine but don’t even try to work here as a beginner. 

The company continues to grow, creating great job security. Leadership conveys a positive culture. It only falls apart when co employees decide to pick on one another (happens very rarely). Benefits and pay are competitive. Half of the employees have been here 5 years or more. Some turnover seasonally as roofers and landscapers come to work in the winter.


The HR Department understands when you need to be late or a day off, the people are great and friendly and welcome you and treat you like a person. The supervisor I work with is spectacular and doesn't treat you poorly I would say the only least favorite thing is that the breaks got shaved two minutes which is understandable because some people don't know how to come back on time

What is the best part of working at the company?
Learning new skills 
Reasonable scheduling 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The weather 
Besides that wasn’t really stressed at all

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Respectful 
Motivational 
Hard working 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Laborer 
Landscaping 
Working my hardest

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