production

maintenance technician

machine operator

production operator

process technician

JSP International

I have been with this company for a lot of years now. I have seen a lot of good over the years as well as a lot of bad. 
 Honestly though things have been getting consistently worse over time. 
 A lot of great employees have walked away for better jobs. We've even lost some good people to lesser jobs because they were tired of how we are treated and tired of the stress. 
 Management is not good. The pay hasn't been good in years. Benefits aren't bad , but they aren't as good as they used to be. 401k is good but it doesn't make up for the terrible pay and the poor treatment. 
 Night crews are forced to work every day, but day shift gets to keep their regular schedule because that's where managements friends work. 
 We got a pretty good bonus this year from corporate, but most years the bonus is small or we don't get one. 
 We've had one company cookout in 4 years. 
 They stopped our company picnics, and the last one was cheap and actually held at the factory. 
  The pay was good 6 years ago, but it's pretty much the lowest paying factory in the area, and the benefits do not make the terrible pay worth it. 
 This place could get better again, but changes need to be made. 
 Pay needs major increase at all positions. 
 They need to promote some of the people from the floor into management/salaried positions. There are a few good ones that would do great and because they know the floor and have the respect of the crews they would excel. 
 Management needs changed out or need to change their ways. 
 They need to start listening to people on the floor. We have good ideas, we know what works. 
 They need to listen to our issues and actually do something to fix the problems. 
 Treated all crews the same. If night crews have to work every day then so should day crews.
 If day crews have more people and management can't get people in the door to fill night crews then move some from days to nights. 
 Stop hiring your friends for management spots. Stop showing favoritism. Everyone sees it. 
 Just treat everyone the same and treat them well. 
 Raise the pay, give promotions to those that actually earn and deserve it, start listening to us, start treating us like we matter, show us respect, go back to doing things for us that look like you appreciate our efforts. 
 It's not that hard to fix this thing. Question is will management actually put in the effort to turn this around? We are waiting........

There are positives about working here, you just have to look past all the negatives. If you desperately need a job , this place will hire anyone. Make sure to ask for day shift, or weekends. Stay clear of nights.
Some crews are run by bullies who will actively confront you, and threaten you. I've seen them threaten other members of management in front of us. It's crazy this abusive treatment is tolerated.
There is a lot of favoritism, people in positions they have no business being in. Management bringing in their own people off the street and promoting them. Allowing them to bully employees and if you speak up you are retaliated against. Management hiring their children and putting them directly under themselves. There is a lot of improper unprofessional things that go on. HR really needs to step in and put a stop to some of this before we lose a lot of good people. There is already people leaving, looking for new jobs, and wanting transfers.
It's very very hot, especially in summer, so be prepared to handle extreme heat.
Pay is average, it was increased this last year but still one of the lower paying facilities in area.
Training is bad, and you are pretty much thrown into the fire and have to figure it out on your own.
Employees don't feel appreciated as much as they should be. Upper management has been trying to fix this lately, but more needs to be done. Need to Bring back the GOOD company picnics, throw out some bonuses or prizes randomly rewarding good employees.
There are good things to working here.
The work is not hard. If you can get past the heat and tolerate being bullied on some crews, it's pretty easy job.
Retirement benefits are great, insurance is good, schedule is good, break room is nice.
Bottom line is this place could be great and enjoyable place to work if some changes are made. But if nothing is done, the bad will outweigh the good and more people will leave.
Upper management is good, some members of Lower management are not. Upper management and HR needs to stop the bullying, and the unfair treatment and favoritism that some lower management is unleashing on the hourly people.
There are worse places to work at, that is for sure, but there are certainly better places out there as well.
If you need a job and can get on the right shift , you can succeed.

This place has positives and negatives. 
Ok, here is honest review about this place.
Hr and corporate promised changes back in December. They gave people the impression that they care and want to make this place better.
So far not much has happened.
This is what needs to happen for this place to start heading in the right direction.
Replacement of molding and maintenance management is a must. Both departments have been trending in wrong direction for 2 years or more.
End the rampant favoritism that clearly goes on. Nobody is treated the same. If you ar friends or family members of management or supervision nothing happens to you, and you can pick what you want to do.
End family and friends working either together or directly for their friends or family members.
We have couples and spouses working together, kids working directly for their parents. And the treatment is different than the regular people. It's blatant and should not be allowed. It's against the handbook, but they make exceptions for their friends.
Treat everyone the same. Whether it's rewarding good work or punishing bad behavior, everyone should be treated the same.
Start promoting from within!!! They love to say that they prefer to promote from within and they want people to advance and succeed, but fact is 4 of last 5 supervisors were hired from outside even though there were qualified and deserving people in house! Managers hire their friends. Management allows supervisors to bring in their own people and promote them to elevated hourly positions without giving seasoned employees a chance.
There are several people in elevated hourly positions that are extremely unqualified or just don't put in any effort. They need to cut the dead weight and get some fresh motivated, intelligent people in these positions!
Get rid of the good ole boy click up in the office.
Allow employees to speak their concerns and make complaints without fear of retaliation.
Raise pay again to get this place up to same level as the better factories in the area.
There are some positive points to working here.
They are: good retirement plan, pretty decent insurance, awesome schedule, a few good people out on the floor, and the work isn't overly demanding as long as you're not picking up someone else's slack
If they made the changes that are necessary then combined with the fee positives, this place would be great!

This wasn't a bad company to work for years back, but things have been on a downward spiral for a while now. Several reasons for overall poor morale and fed up employees. 
1. Crews are severely short staffed (especially the night crews). People are getting burned out. 
2. Pay is lousy for this area. 6 years ago the pay wasn't bad, but almost every factory in the area has past us by. Majority of factories in area pay at least 2.00 more an hour. 
3. Management does not care about it's people. They will do anything to save money at the expense of the hourly employees. 
4. They say they promote from within, but that is not entirely true. They will promote for hourly elevated positions, like tech, tech 2, QA, QA 2, tool changer, maintenance, things like that. When it comes to salaried positions, Management just hires their childhood friends and their buddies from outside the plant. If they don't have any friends wanting a job, they just refuse to backfill open positions. Management only hires their pals. Plant is short supervisors and engineers, which would help crews out, but they are saving money by not backfilling.
5. As previous reviewers have stated, hourly employees are tired and worn out. A lot of seasoned longtime employees are leaving. This place needs a rebuild. We need a union to help us fight for fair and equal conditions and opportunities. 
6. Company will do anything to save a buck at expense of hourly employees killing themselves. Crews understaffed, switching schedules to get rid of built in overtime, shortages of supervisors and engineers, as well as Techs that aren't all capable. 
7. Big us versus them environment. Management looks down on hourly employees, even though we are the ones who make this place go. Management looks at us like we are peasants or second class people. 
8. There is no clear path for advancement, even for people that work every day without getting any points. It doesn't matter how hard you work, if your not in the buddy network they pass you by. 



Change needs to happen fast before everyone leaves for better opportunities. 
 Management is terrible.
 Pay is awful. 
Benefits could be better.
401K is good.
Morale needs a huge boost. 
 Ok so here is the bad- management is terrible. The management team does not care about the employees. The management team does not listen to employees concerns, criticism, or suggestions. To management we are just those people on the floor and what we have to say and our ideas are not worth listening to.
 Promotion from within for salaried positions is pretty much non existent. If you aren't a friend or family member of management they are not promoting from within. There are currently vacant salaried positions but they refuse to back fill the spots with one of the people from the floor. Instead we suffer being short engineer help and suffer from not enough supervisors to cover all the crews properly. 
 Crews are severely short handed. Nobody wants to work here, but management will also try to run as much stuff with fewest people possible to save money even if it's killing the people on floor.
 Pay is awful. Lowest paying factory in area. 
 They need to bump pay at least 2.00 an hour at every position just to get even with other facilities in are and be competitive. Honestly they need to bump it 3-4.00 an hour to get ahead of other facilities and start stealing people away. But this group will never do that. Plant management doesn't think "throwing money" at the problem will fix anything and it's expensive. This is a group that took our paper towels away from our bathrooms to save money. 
 If they really wanted to fix things, this group would get up in front of the employees and apologize. Reach out to us and admit things have gotten bad and tell us there is a solution to fix things and to gain our trust. The people on the floor are tired, overworked, fed up, disgruntled, angry, and we feel like we don't matter, our families don't matter. We are not heard, and we are sick of it. People are ready to walk if this isn't fixed. 
 Now the good - 401k is nice, HR department is nice, free popsicles in summer, 2 of the supervisors are good, and there are some great people on the floor. 

Overall it's not a bad place to work. 
 Could use a few changes to make things better and to put people at ease. 
 Pay definitely needs to be increased significantly across the board at all positions to keep people here, attract new talent, and to lure good people away from competition. 
 Understaffed crews need to be addressed better. Especially when we know months in advance that we have a lot of business coming up. Wether it be through the door or through staffing agencies, we need to make sure crews have what they need to be successful before we get slammed by heavy business needs. 
 Management needs to be straight with employees. Be truthful and respectful to the people out there busting their butts. Be transparent on what is going on behind the scenes. 
 When you tell someone something, follow through with it. Don't tell them something to appease them or get their hopes up so they stick around longer. If you say something, follow through with it or just be straight from the start. 
 I believe this management group wants to do things the right way and make up for the bad decisions they've made. I do believe they are trying to better things around here. They just need to be transparent on what they are doing. Speak up, keep us in the loop as to what the plan is to turn this around. Work on your communication and people skills. Earning respect and trust out on the floor would go a long way. 
Put paper towels back, ease up on radios on floor, interact more with people on floor, revisited leaving plant for lunch breaks, start asking peoples opinions and for new ideas from folks on floor, and actually listen. Bring back good company picnics and do things that show employees appreciation. Promote people that deserve it and are qualified. 
 Pros to working here:  great 401k, decent insurance, great schedule, great employees on the shop floor, potential for year end bonus. 
 Cons: Low pay at all positions, crews not staffed properly, lack of meaningful interaction with management, morale is low right now. 
 All the cons can be fixed. 

Overall this is a good company to work for. With the right changes it could be great place.  Talent, dedication, intelligence, integrity, are not spread out evenly over all 3 crews. One shift has a dedicated supervisor, who demands a lot from their people, but also treats them fairly. That same shift has a dedicated group with great work ethic, integrity, and they build each other up and work as a true team. They have a solid tech and solid workers. Another shift has a caring supervisor who though they care, they are relatively clueless as to how things run and doesn't understand the process very well. That same crew is full of decent folk who are nice people, but they also don't have strong aptitude, or strong work ethic, and they have an inexperienced tech as well as work group. 
 The other shift is run by a supervisor that doesn't care. They checked out years ago and could care less about the company. They never leave their office, and leave everything up to the tech who is lazy, and uncaring as well. This leadership group is petty, and doesn't own their mistakes. The working crew itself has some strong operators, but they are showing the same I don't care attitude that is portrayed be their leadership team. Quality tech is spoiled and has a poor attitude. This group is not a true team and their attitude and poor housekeeping show it
  If upper management woul crack down and drive home the importance of the entire plant running as one team , things could get better. There needs to be a shake up at the supervisor level. There needs to be a big shake up at the coordinator level. If a few positions got replacements or moved around I think overall productivity and morale would skyrocket. Upper management needs to make a few hard decisions and sacrifice a few bad eggs and turn this place into a smooth running machine! Upper management is great, supporting salary staff is excellent. A couple salaried changes and changes at the hourly level would point this place in an ever rising direction. 

The management team here is awful.
Employees are being let down daily. We deserve better. Better treatment, better working conditions, better training, better management.
Crews were severely understaffed for months and management just rode everyone and burned a lot of people out. Now they have finally brought in a bunch of new people, which is good, however none of these people are trained yet. It takes at least a month to get 1 person trained on a machine. But management is already all over us wanting better numbers and pushing us to get presses running. They don't care that nobody is trained, they act like since we have people now then our numbers should be great.
When you try to bring that up you get yelled at or treated with disrespect.
Manager actually refers to people on the floor as "those people".
We are peasants to them and they treat us like dirt.
Until corporate does something about the management team here nothing will get any better.
Pros to working here: good 401k,
Decent schedule, potential year end bonus but not guaranteed, new hr manager seems to actually care, insurance is so so.
Cons to working here: management is terrible, molding department and maintenance department are sinking fast,
Pay is not that good about par with lower paying places in area, huge click in management team, they hire their friends and family, and have their favorites on the floor, they do not promote deserving people from floor to salary positions, they hire their friends and family instead, management doesn't listen to employees concerns or complaints, no real changes have happened after they were promised, and everyone sees it. Truly need a rest at management level. Hopefully corporate sees this and does something before we lose the rest of the good ones, or form a union to help combat the poor management. We need leadership, not dictatorship. We deserve to be treated with respect and we should be appreciated.

It's hard to give a straight forward review to working here because the conditions and environment vary so much. All crews are not run the same so someone on nights might feel bullied, picked on, and disrespected, while someone on days might say the experience is great.  
 There are definitely changes that need to be made to management structure. Members of the management team should not be allowed to threaten, target, bully, and mistreat employees. 
Members of management team should not be allowed to single people out and make them feel terrible and scared. Members of management team should not be allowed to have confrontations on production floor or scream at employees or other management staff. 
 There is a huge click in front office that will do anything to make excuses for and protect any members of management that are part of the click. 
 If you can get the right shift, or the right crew, you may have positive experience. 
 Honestly the work is not hard at all. It does get really hot, but the work itself is pretty easy. 
 Positives to working here: easy work, awesome schedule, good 401k, good insurance, yearly bonus, a lot of fellow employees are good people. 
 The negatives to working here: IT'S HOT!, some members of management staff are very unprofessional, unfair and unequal treatment, training program here is awful, they don't train you for anything, just throw you out there., a few of the elevated positions are filled with unqualified people, the machines are always breaking, and they aren't taken care of. There is a lot of favoritism.  Pay is low, Did I mention it's hot? 
 If you get the right shift, you could carve out a career here. Just proceed with caution. 

Ok so here is the facts about working here. Good and bad. 
 Good- 401K is good. Insurance is decent but expensive. Schedule (when we actually work when we're supposed to) is good. And that's about it. 
 BAD- Pay is awful. Crews severely understaffed. They brought in people from temp service to try to help us, but then we found out the temps are making 2.50 more an hour than the full time people!!! 
 This place is terrible. Employees are overwhelmed, overworked, tired, treated awful, underpaid, and management sees no issues.
We are forced to work OT but only the night shift because days is where all of managements family and friends are. They get their days off! 
 They really seem dumbfounded that we are unhappy and fed up. 
 The management team is terrible.
 Management keeps hiring their friends and family into positions they shouldn't be in. 
 Just about everyone is looking for new jobs. I wouldn't be surprised if over half are gone after holiday shutdown. 
 It's really sad. This place used to be a great place to work, but this management group has let everyone down, and failed us severely. 
 This place needs a change from top down and a significant pay increase at all positions! 
 There are rumors of an increase coming, but not for all positions, just lower positions. 
 There needs to be significant pay increase for EVERYONE that is paid hourly.
 Need change to management team as well, an need HR to step up and start listening to people's concerns and complaints because right now it feels like they turned their back on us. 
 Not sure if anything can be done before we lose a ton of good people. A lot of people are ready to walk because they are tired of way we are treated and tired of seeing this place run so poorly. 
 Change is needed ASAP.  Corporate are you listening?? 
 

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