packer

technician

quality assurance inspector

maintenance technician

inspector

Innovative Labs

-The company is not innovative. Ideas are cancelled and employees are empowered to be silent.
-Quality organization leaders micro-manage DC employees to use antiquated processes.
-DC organization and leaders do not make data-driven decision. very little is done according to procedures. I saw one investigation that made microbiological claims containing no data or supporting laboratory documentation to justify root cause or correction action.
-Manufacturing culture is "the individual who complains first is right."  
-Quality organization leadership can't read graphs. employee who try to get out of "island suck" situations are "not a good fit" for Quality or Document Control.
-Upper management and quality leadership continue to making the same poor decisions that got them into the horrible situations of lies they are in. Their new LMS is horrid... They just haven't realized that yet.
document control system is broken.
-Employees with any degree of autism or who have learning disabilities might find organization leaders and the manufacturing environment hostile to your communication style, skills, knowledge of processes and control, or experience in correcting or fixing problems.

I work in Quality and have ties with all other departments. We're rapidly moving to better processes and reliability. There is a strong culture of responsibility and learning from mistakes and we've been able to innovate on our workloads to make them more manageable.

Occasionally I have problems with departments being more siloed than they should be, but this is much rarer than it was when I first started working. A little bit of arrogance in the c-suite is unfortunately true; it would help if they were a bit more diversified in their involvement.

As is true of most companies, most employees don't have enough time in their day to think about things more deeply.

Pros:
I've learned a lot about working with people and politics of doing business from this job relative to other jobs. Because the culture is fairly relaxed, I've been able to test boundaries and learn how people operate. My team is great about letting us decide how to get things done on our own. Pay has been fair enough.

Cons:
Constantly changing environment. Lost production due to people who leave and it taking way too long to replace them. Subject to the whims of somewhat ignorant owners.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Management get bonuses for saving the company money so workers work harder undermanned and pay fluctuates on time where day shift gets increase on overtime while nite shift gets screwed on overtime 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not being put in position that you are qualified for and training people who gets paid more who can’t do all the things that I can do

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Some people are easy to work with while others are trying to get promotion by getting others in trouble 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come in get instructions help day shift then finish off their job clean and sanitize rooms help packing product move with forklift add information on tablet redzone monitor belts on line to keep it moving when all is done clean up for day shift not really fair

Pay in the maintenance department is low for the work we do and keeping the machines going doing maintenance but mostly operator adjustments to the lines. There is a lot of possibility for learning in this industry working here but no appreciation from upper management for the employees that work on the floor. They used to have a good bonus program and had good employee moral but have since terminated the bonus program and have stopped going the extra mile and showing appreciation for the employees on the floor.

Great work environment for people who show up to work hard. Fast paced which is good, also able to rotate positions on the floor if needed. Turn around time for temporary employees is fairly high, so new faces are constant. Since they rarely ever hire on full time employees, it’s very hard to obtain a spot. Able to learn new positions/machines with few people who are willing to train you. Management is great, production pushes out as much product as they can per week to ensure we’re staying busy, while the quality department works hard to push for success within the overall product. They are very understanding and accommodate to you when it comes to time off if you are someone who shows up to work and doesn’t constantly leave early.

This company does not want you to thrive. Even if you work hard and give it all you've got, they will come after you for the smallest things. They have cycled through multiple plant managers of which none stuck around. There are many days in which they don't run because of poor planning. I knew multiple employees with great inexpensive ideas for fixing the logistic issues, but management was unwilling to listen. You won't feel valued or appreciated. They don't consider raises. I would recommend staying away from this company at all costs. I could equate the experience to an abusive relationship. Manipulative, spiteful, and exhausting. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
It's just a great company to work for I had no best part I loved what I did for the company 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Making sure we had no bad micros ph as long as they were good every thing was great if they were not all was bad but in the 4 years I worked there I never had a bad test on anything 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
When I was there it was a mess package management sucked and made things very difficult all the time

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Was long days but worth it when everything ran smoothly

This is a great place to work! 

I have read several reviews and there is many differing opinions on this, but overall its a great place to work. 

There is some stress that comes along with working here, but that is nothing unusual in the industry. 

The company is in the end stages of a transition and there are a lot of process's that are getting improved or changed. So far I am liking what I am seeing here, and I feel that there is going to be some growth in the company over the next few years. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Skip unable to think of anything at the moment 
The company needs new equipment. Operators are not trained and left to trial by error 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Corporate Management. Disconnected from the company aside from the paperwork in from of them

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Sneaky. Just blame it on past employees and agree with whoever you’re talking to at that time. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Dodge ball, but you’ll never be on the winning side

Innovative Flexpak was a wonderful place to learn and grow.  I had the opportunity to learn so many new skills and gain expertise in areas of quality, production and sales.

I loved working with nutritional supplements and have always been a believer in the power of nutrition.  I loved the products that I made there and always took opportunity to try the new products.

I was given the chance to take on huge challenges and was praised for my accomplishments and loved the opportunity to grow so much.

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