forklift operator

batcher

operator

laborer

receiver

Lassonde

Hourly employees are overworked with no consideration of their families, only benefit is all the overtime pay they receive.(Some making 80k-100k/year)
Supervisors are over-loaded with work and under-payed compared to the hourly employees. (60k range with no overtime) Supervisors are expected to pick up the slack of hourly employees or cover for call offs then berated when they cannot perform their duties.
Bonuses are not guaranteed for Supervisors
Raises very,management plays favorites, try to keep all supervisors at same rate
Absolutely no room for advancement/professional development as much as they say there is.
Vacation Time is burned at 12 hour increments/ instead of by days
When one person goes out Supervisors will get placed on 8 hour days losing days off or will get stuck working 7+ days of 12 hour shifts.

Management doesn't care about you, the company doesn't care and they prove that by putting family in positions of power. If you get injured they'll quickly fill your job with a temp. They disregard HIPAA at every chance, doesn't matter that it's your health, it's almost like you're their property and they feel entitled to your medical history. Easy to make some friends amongst the workers, but there's always the snakes in the grass. They will push you and everyone on your line to get what they want. Working in the heat is the worst, the warehouse is not climate controlled but that doesn't matter to management because they sit in an air conditioned office, same as HR.if you choose to work here you will be pushed passed your limits, the response you'll hear though is "another day at the garden" or "Another one bites the dust". The machines and equipment are never properly maintained. You'll find no one cares about your personal concerns or safety. Choose wisely

Great family owned company with plenty of room for advancement. I have worked for the company for over 25 years and have witnessed it grow from a small regional based distributor to a food manufacturer that sells some of the fastest growing grocery brands in the country. The company's growth has allowed for many new management positions of varying type giving employees plenty of opportunities to expand their careers. The company has a great benefits package and is very generous with personal and holiday free time along with a performance based bonus programs. The Zidian Group has a family atmosphere that offers many different company hosted events to allow all employees to get to know each other and build on a real team atmosphere. I would highly recommend anyone looking to start a career to consider the Zidian Group as they truly care about all of their employees.

Entering new purchase orders, invoicing purchase orders that have shipped. Checking the manufacturing schedule to confirm customer production is on time. Emails and telephone calls from existing customers also ones from retail customers. Correspondence between National Sales team and fulfilling requests for reports and other inquiries. Also at times responding to requests from company owner regarding sales and movement information on certain product.

My coworkers and myself work as a team and help each other out on questions and projects. We also will back each other up if one of us is out of the office or tied up in meetings.

Our plant is a Green plant and has been recognized nationally. One of the greatest recognitions we received was when the President of the United States of America visited. What a great honor that was as an employee.

They don't appreciate or value their employees, they mention competitive employee package, but not sure who they are competing with because it is awful? You don't receive enough vacation time compared to most other companies, management never resolves your issues, HR is non-existent, you are forced to work OT everyday, and the nepotism is out of control. Up to 4 people a month leave for another job or fired. They'll tell you there are other people out there that need a job if you have a complaint and make you feel like their doing you the favor for you working there. They string temps along as far as they can so they don't have to make them full time. If you work there and are family or know the family, you can get away with anything with no repercussions.

This facility is not climate controlled hot and muggy. All managers are new to the company and have gained those positions by a combination of being at the right place at right time and no one wanting to work here ( basically by default). And do not possess the qualifications for those positions. Using the work schedule to target employees and force them to work 12hr shifts so they'll either call out or leave early to give them points. They will lie and tell new employees that theres no weekend work to get them to apply and take a position to only find out that we do work weekends. Growth in the company is not encouraged . Senior employees which are scarce have to constantly explain to supervisors/managers the process and what it is we do here.

There is a constant need for off-shift personnel willing to stick it out for more than a few weeks in order to get their feet wet, and get comfortable with their new position.

Over the last 4 years seen 3 different plant managers, 3 production managers, 3 processing managers, 5 HR managers, 2 maintenance managers, 2 warehouse managers, and a large number of operators. 

As operators, expect to work 50+ hours weekly. Production works roughly 6 days a week, and blending 5 days a week with upwards to 60 hours a week. However, pay and benefits are really good. 

Corporate pushing to produce for 6, nearly 7 days a week. Yet, staffing, and their experience/training, isn't to par to continue this trend. Upper management doesn't appear to be sympathetic to this, nor trying to help improve work-life balance. 




I was warned about working at the company from a previous employee but thought things would be different for me. There seem to be several friendly people working I enjoyed it at first. I worked extremely hard and and in office everyday.  There was no appreciation shown from management or even encouragement.  The worst part was when my supervisor manually changed work have done in the system only to accuse me of making mistakes.   I even had a witness of my accuracy but he was out sick for awhile and wasn't able to validate me but the end result would have been the same so it's really good to be free of that environment.  Just know there are some very miserable people there.
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Most supervisors are at or just a little over a year of experience. No Previous Manufacturing experience needed for the Supervisor position.
Horrible training program. I was training with a person that had a week of employment. Its the blind leading the blind
Witnessed managers falsifying paperwork and encouraging others to do so.
Missing work for personal reasons will have each manager and supervisors talking bad about you and threating disciplinary actions.
Operators run around doing whatever they want no real leadership on off-shifts,
Zero Accountability unless Managers don't like you then they will paint a target on your back.


What is the best part of working at the company?
Pay is always there have good equipment performance of equipment hold your day up but get paid by hour

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Getting your stops off in timely fashion trucks have no hill power scanning product complex at times hard on your back trying to get it done and opening cases time consuming 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Stressful over worked for the pay

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Work hard busy gotta keep pushing with a lot of work to do get it done go home really busy days.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Forklift operator 37 salaries reported	$20.58 per hour
Batcher 36 salaries reported	$22.61 per hour
Operator 21 salaries reported	$23.93 per hour
Laborer 19 salaries reported	$19.68 per hour
Receiver 8 salaries reported	$20.90 per hour

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