operator

material handler

business development manager

quality engineer

support analyst

Intek Plastics

1. Managment leaves a lot to be desired. Production managment shows poor communication and can be divisive. Overall company management can be punitive, manipulative, and at times, down right oppressive.
2.  The culture among most production labor appears to be cordial, helpful , and collaborative. The corporate culture is not very welcoming and leaves the company perpetually short staffed. Production labor associates are often treated as ignorant children that must be rigidly controlled right down to the smallest of details instead of given clear objective, expectations, and goals and given the tools and resources to achieve them. Further, there are few incentives wherein non-managment personnel are given a sense of "ownership" that ties compensation to worker influenced performance metrics.
3. The hardest part of the job is reconconciling the actions of managment with the stated goals and desires of the company as they don't appear to align with one another.
4. The most enjoyable part of the job is working with the other laborers on my shift. Their attitude, outlook, and general friendly demeanor all work together to make an easy-going and quickly progressing work day.


I was in charge of the Quality Technicians and the First Article inspector. A typical day consisted of being briefed by the overnight QT for any major concerns. I would walk the floor and talk to each operator; building trust and watching to ensure they were following their operator guide for that specific product. I would attend the morning production meeting to understand the plan for production for that day. Any Non-conforming from overnight would need to be dispositioned in MRB immediately after the morning production meeting.
My Quality Manger, who hired me, was extremely knowledgeable and taught me the basics I would need to further my career in Quality. 
I would say the hardest part of the job would be a culture change. The old phrase "We've always done it this way," was a common answer to most of the new systems I would implement. To combat this I would educate the operators on why we are changing the system and get their buy-in. Most of the operators were unaware of what they were producing and how the product would be used once it left Five Star.
The most enjoyable part of my job is two-fold. 
1) I enjoyed walking the production floor and talking with the operators; gaining their trust and friendship. This is useful for implementing new systems and getting less push-back.
2) Audits; I thoroughly enjoyed all of the ISO, AS9100D, 13485 audits. This is due to me knowing the Quality Management System.

Training was, throwing you on a press the first day and telling you how to do the work and that was basically it. Nothing about plastic injection molding was taught. You don't get introduced to hardly anyone (no idea who to go to if you needed something in particular). The pay is trash. $10 starting 1st shift, even if you've had past experience. Some days are easy-going and somedays you're running around the WHOLE building like a chicken with its head chopped off. Maybe it's just me, but I felt like favouritism played a lot here. Some of the same people get easy jobs on a regular. Some jobs require almost 100 boxes per shift and sometimes I was up to make my own boxes even when the cycle times were super quick. 5star is way too strict on their "punches" for the time clock. You could clock back in a minute or 2 late from break and get written up. They seem to suspend employees super quick for missed punches. "Oh well, day off for me." A couple of employees there NEED to do a ATTITUDE check. Jerks! Rude! Inconsiderate. I'd rather have no job than back at this job.

1 )most days the work itself was easy, even some of the tougher jobs got easier with experience.
2)learned a lot about plastics, its make up, and what to look for,  good or bad.
3)management wise, it is a zoo, never know if your going to get help, or where to find it, lots of times, couldn't get an appropriate answer, left in a cloud, then written up 2 months later, for something you couldn't get an answer for when you were running the part.
4)Supervisors, trainers, were more like prison guards, then support staff, looking to catch you doing something wrong, then looking to find the good, then wondering why morale was so low.
5)Just trying to figure out what to expect next from supervisors.
6)always meeting new people as their policies, kept the doors always swinging

What is the best part of working at the company?
It  was very easy work for lazy people. They have a nice break room and it’s very clean

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
All of the harassment that was going on and HR wouldn’t do anything about it. The people there were so rude that it sent me to go see a psychologist . 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Was horrible and very uncomfortable. Lost of  harassment going on and other stuff like that going on. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Crying, didn’t want to come in and when I was there I wanted to leave . I was very depressed working there

A typical day was get my radio, get gloves, find out how many machines I'd be working on, get set up & go.  I learned more about plastic production then other places.  Management was always in office or on the production floor.  On some machines I'd be working by myself or while on other machines I'd be working with up to 5 people.  My co-workers were my friends.  The hardest part of my job was to be faster than the machine would kick out parts & to be able to inspect them without getting burnt because the parts were so hot.  The most enjoyable part of my job was being able to listen to the radio while working.

If your ill a doctor’s note is required or you’ll be written up for a policy infraction. The health insurance is pretty terrible, so I’ve paid for the two doctors visits I’ve had to avoid a write-up. $160 dollars for the two visits. It feels like I’m being penalized for being sick. 

It’s a plastic injection molding company. They burn plastic fairly regularly so the air quality is poor. 

Poor communication between management and employees
High turnover. 

Benefits are industry leading low 


Typical day included check and measure parts and getting lectured.
I got minimal training for quality. “Train” you and then you go off to shift with no support.
Most people in my department talk about how much they hate it. Everybody wants to leave 

Nobody sticks around because the department head only talks to you when it’s negative. Nothing is positive there. Get talked to for everything 
Pages people to his office cause he’s too lazy to get up and see what really happens in quality. 

I enjoyed this job quite a lot for my first factory job. I had wonderful co-workers and got along with almost all of them. The job was easy and could be done without stress most of the times and everything you had to do was pretty straight forward.
The cons of this job are that there are days that can be extremely boring as well is isolating, hence why you have to be self-motivated. I personally dont mind working in that kind f environment but I know for many, It can be too slow.

As an intern with previous experience with a fortune 500 company, Five Star offered a pleasant glimpse into the working world of small business. Managers and coworkers were friendly and helpful. Leadership was helpful with scheduling and understood the need to put education first. The ideal internship for an engineer looking to work and go to school simultaneously.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Operator 6 salaries reported	$16.00 per hour
Material handler 5 salaries reported	$19.50 per hour
Business development manager 3 salaries reported	$61,667 per year
Quality engineer 2 salaries reported	$78,800 per year
Support analyst 1 salary reported	$63,750 per year

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