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Lacerta Group

Starting at this company was fairly exciting for the fact it's a growing company. Started in Production prepping boxes so containers and parts can go in them after the machine makes them. The Quality Checkers don't bother helping you they just walk around telling  people do this and that and barely teach you what to look out for. Most speak Portugese creole or Spanish so if you don't know either goodluck. If you understand them you can hear them trash talking about others or you. The Managers could be better,  there's a lot of lies and the employees get dragged as if it's part of the job.  There's 3 bosses but one handles the firing and he does that happily kinda like as if he gets off of it. Has no logic behind his saying and when you question it or prove its wrong its illogical he loses himself and threatens your job or makes it worse..  If you call out while you have sick hours he'll take that from you and just might ask you to take another day off (without pay)..  Very selfish,ignorant and greedy.. The stories go on.  This place needs undercovers from the state board.

The company is a fast growing plastics thermoforming producer, which has been grown from the ground up. All of the sales corporate side of the company is being developed well. The production side of the company has grown beyond its staffing support capability. There is no maintenance department to speak of so production rules every decision about scheduling. If a machine breaks there is no system to report the failure and the production president only wants to shutdown on the weekend to fix machines. Be prepared when interviewing to join this company for a process that sounds promising but there are hidden expectations of any mechanic to be available at all hours of the day or night and there is no organization of the company. The owners have not created job descriptions and have no plans of doing so.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Many of the employees are wonderful people as was the former managerial staff.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Managers with little to no experience in plastics looking for people to blame for their shortcomings.  

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
A dangerous environment with people being injured almost weekly.  

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Twelve plus hours for an eight-hour paycheck, with plugs stuffed into your ears and fogging glasses over your eyes with100-degree temps on the plant floor common in summer, with poor ventilation and windows sealed closed so the machines would run correctly.

Working at Lacerta, I worked 17 hour days. Maintained safety, problem solving, machine operations, fork lifted certification for the employer and removing wasted parts to the proper disposal location. There was no diversity at location. I was the only English speaking employee. Everyone else were Spanish which made it hard to communicate with management and other employees.  This was the most difficult part of the workforce.  What I was the best experience for myself was getting fork lift certification.  Only, it only applied to fork lift certification within this company. So I was glad when they trained me for another position which gave me experience new skills.

some work days would be fast or slow depending on demand. I've learned how to organize pieces to package. One of the hardest things about working there was the slow days when production went down in the area i was and you had to find a way to keep yourself occupied other than that it was a great place.

There is no structure, supervision nor responsibility in any building! They also expect you to do more than job title entails. Very few English speakers, and the company treats the employees like products rather than people! There was zero training and management and HR we’re incompetent!

Recent new hire at Lacerta Group, LLC and its been a great place to work. The new management and leadership team has done a great job to turn the company into a place that people will want to work at. Pay is competitive compared to other companies and the PTO is great. Can days be long, yes, but we get multiple breaks throughout our shifts. 

9 years at Lacerta Quality and without even a ligetimate reason fired outright on trumped up charges. No severance for me after giving others that they liked severance. Alot of nice people once you get past Sr management. CEO may be fine but most other new leadership team not so much

Great products but owned by a family that is very disorganized on establishing good direction and market intelligence . Brought me on to build and development there broker and distribution networks but struggled to understand the process to accomplished that.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There is nothing good about working there. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
constant management changeover.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
it is horrible. brutal work hours and conditions.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Packer 5 salaries reported	$19.17 per hour
Maintenance mechanic 2 salaries reported	$35.50 per hour
Machine operator 3 salaries reported	$21.83 per hour
Extrusion operator 1 salary reported	$22.00 per hour
Truck driver 2 salaries reported	$18.80 per hour

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