packer

order picker

maintenance mechanic

sanitation worker

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Mission Foods

The restrooms that regular employees use are filthy and 3rd worldish. Smells like urine mixed with rotten seafood sometimes. The lunchroom is very noisy like the people just discovered cell phones and try to talk over each other in their own foreign language and Skype as loud as they can. Not relaxing at all. Kaotic. Sink is nasty.  The management is garbage. I'm in maintenance and it seems like no one cares here. Shop is always messy. You will have to clean up after grown men. The maintenance supervisor Carlton is always non supportive and in the office. Late on everything from approving days off and won't help you with any line calls.  They do have a few really good maintenance guys here but management will take them for some organizing and let you get murdered with the excessive line calls due to the equipment being very behind on maintenance and the excessive heat on 2nd shift. There's something  in the air here you will develop a cough even if you don't smoke and You will get sick regularly. Maybe mold in the air naturally. Its very very hot in the summer and the production employees will hate you and call for nonsense cuz they are suffering from the heat and 1st shift maintenance will not really fix the lines. We actually have operators here that will suffer the whole shift and be waiting for you to get here and solve the problem/ fix the machines. 2nd shift has heat issues and the mechanics don't do the basics like blowing out the fans on flour tortilla counter stackers so when I have to blow it out when the lines are running the dust and mold goes all over the flour tortillas. Tasty huh? 3rd shift mechanics are cool. 3rd shift supervisor Deandre is cool will help you on line calls and teach you electrical . I won't recommend anyone to work here. And they way they treat you will cause all the good employees to leave here.  Sorry guys I did my best but people have to know what goes on here.

DAY / A day starts with a hand off from the previous shift on the issues that occurred. Set up of the shift and a 15 minute review with the operators to inform them of how their line was running. Proceed to the production floor to start the shift. During the shift there would be a continuous monitoring of the employee and their safety, the quality of the product that was being produced, wast points with solutions on resolving them. Dealing with occurring issues of machinery break down and product out of quality spec. Setting up employee work schedule with days off and vacation days. Training and monitoring new employee.Finish the day with shift reports.

LEARNED / How to be a successful supervisor dealing with everyday obstacles, Managing through motivation, Managing Difficult People & Stress,Train The Trainer, Risk Based Internal Auditor Course. Safety procedures including Blood borne pathogens, First Aid Responder through the American Red Cross for adult & child First Aid /CPR/AED procedures. Computer knowledge using multiple programs, proper way of doing a series of different types of reports.

MANAGEMENT / Unstable through communication and follow through.Upper management can not be trusted. During my 8+ years with this company have went through 8 plant managers 5 production and shift managers and 20+ supervisors.

CO-WORKERS / There was a variety hard dedicated to actors.

HARDEST PART OF THE JOB / machinery break down, production scheduling.

MOST ENJOYABLE PART OF THE JOB / Knowledge and continuous learning. Being a leader for the department helping employee advance to better paid positions. Hearing how the employee enjoyed what I was able to do for them. My (Legacy) with the company.

Mission Foods is extremely unprofessional and have no regard for their employees. It did not matter if you had to leave work at the end of you scheduled shift to get to a second job, school, pick up your kids from daycare, etc. If they needed you, you were told " you are expected to stay" and if you decided you couldn't, they'd mark you down as absent, or insubordinate and you'd find yourself with a warning, write up, or in HR depending on who your supervisor was. You worked long hours, often 12+ hours per day at least 6 days a week. There are basically no holidays off. And its a thankless job. They rush you to produce numbers without giving a care to the quality of the product, the training is extremely poor and the lack of teamwork was very noticeable. Work meetings were posted within less than 24 hours of notice, and your schedule constantly changed based on the companies needs, Oh and if something when wrong everyone simply played the blame game. Admitting to a mistake would get you fired. On your days off you were harassed to come into work if they had scheduled employees call in sick. And you were expected to answer the phone or you would receive a verbal warning for it. Further more they have so much overtime that they cant even get your pay correct. Often times they'd try to short you on hours worked and simply say they forgot to add you to the schedule. Also, they fail to tell you that if you work OT that your pay rate will change based on the shift you're working.

You work in 2 shifts. Sat-Thurs or Thurs-Mon. Its variable so they can changed the schedule at any time. They have a strict policy of Attendance that includes a point system. 1 point for calling out if you don't specify the use of a sick day, 10 points and you are fired. If you don't have sick days you can get points, just don't get too many. Most of hard work is from Sat-Monday. Communication between management is horrible. Communication between the management and the technicians is just as horrible. You are overworked, there is no covid-Hero pay, they would rather give food than give us money for working through this pandemic, people have died from working through the pandemic here (it was on the news, search it up), and you are expected to clean and sanitize everything, even where covid-19 cases occur in the workplace. The old people there are very toxic and disrespectful and entitled. The Hard part is the schedule. For example: Saturday 4am-12:30pm, Sunday 4am-2:30pm, Monday 2am-12:30pm. This can changed to make your sleeping schedule practically non-existent. Sometimes you are on call if anything happens to the product or the machines. The most enjoyable part is leaving work, the benefits and overtime, if you like doing overtime. If you get injured here Human Resources might fire you depending on the circumstances, so good luck. This place has a high turnover rate for sanitation technicians for a reason. 

Mission Foods is a privately owned company that is perceived as small, but is actually the US leader in tortilla sales.  A typical day at work includes various paperwork duties, visiting grocery store accounts to identify selling opportunities, and consult the independent distributors on opportunities in their markets and provide them with selling tools to execute corporate agreed upon sales events.

 The job is not as taxing on stress level as other DSD jobs due to the fact we do not directly manage the independent operators and are not required to spend our valuable time selling "down" routes. Many DSD companies complicate management positions by requiring their field level managers to run open routes for long periods of time. The time spent on routes portion of their jobs greatly impacts work/life balance, whereas we are not faced with that obstacle. 

The hardest part of the job is maintaining floor space in grocery stores during non-holiday weeks.  Tortillas are not as much of an impulse item as chips and beer.  However, we often remind our customers of the fact that high margin items, such as meat and produce, are nearly always purchased along with tortillas.  We use the high margin tie-in argument to leverage the added space.

I was hired back in Mexico as a Manufacturing engineer, they sponsored my visa and everything for me to come here. Everything they told me in the interviews (several of them) sounded good, but not too good to suspect anything bad. The reality was very different, once I got here the position did not exist, they offered me a position as an operator disregarding my current title and ignoring my education. Pay was not fair either, you can make more working at a fast food restaurant than here, hours are long and overtime is mandatory, if you do not show for overtime, even after stating on the interview that you weren't available every day after work, they give you points, which in turn can lead to being fired. Management is a joke, there aren't policies in place to improve the workplace, quality is bad, product does not meet sanitary standards, and overall facilities are bad kept. No one speaks English, Spanish is the first language here, so you spend your day trying to understand people from different cultures that get offended if you do not understand them. Be prepared to say goodbye to your familie as your day will start at either 2am or 5am and continue for 12 hours for 6 or 7 days a week. Also, if you decided to relocate with them, you cannot quit for five years, otherwise you have to reimburse them everything which it's like 20k.

Mission Foods is a solid company to work for, however, much of my grief stems from my manager and his poor abilities to balance his own life with work.  A typical day at work would consist of myself going to the store locations on the route and making sure all product is not only full but also properly rotated.  On specific week days that my co-workers and I would be delivering orders to the stores, I would be following shortly behind and merchandising the product brought in as my driver would unload.  I've learned much about how the system between provider and consumer (our stores we deliver to in this case) intertwine.  The single hardest part of my job is tolerating my boss and how he unprofessionally goes about his work.  The pay is extremely informal and at times makes me worry whether my boss will have the money for my next paycheck.  On the other hand, I absolutely love the freedom this job seems to provide in comparison to others I have worked.  The ability to wake up and understand that whatever the days' objectives were if it took 8 hrs to take care it took 8 hours, but if it only takes 5 hours then you get some time to yourself!  Overall, the company is not bad to work for, my boss on the other hand is another story.

A typical day at work would include waking up at 2:30am, driving to the storage unit where the product was delivered from Austin, load the trailer full of fresh trays of tortillas after unloading the empty trays, and delivering the tortillas to 8 different stores ranging from Willow Park,Tx. to Weatherford, Tx.
     Since I was getting paid only commissions, it forced me to make as many sells as possible, which I did with great customer service skills and shelf organizations.
     Unfortunately, I did not get the chance to work under a supervisor, so I do not know what it is like to have a boss. Which also means I am very self-motivated and an effective decision maker.
     I made very many friends, which were the other vendors; (technically my coworkers) which means I am a great team player and get along well with others.
     Another thing I did was persuade customers why Mission tortillas were better than others, so you could say I am a great negotiator.
     I worked in any weather conditions, whether it was 110 degrees in the trailer or icy roads.
     The hardest part of the job was never having days off and working in icy conditions. And the most enjoyable part of the job was getting paid and working the hours I wanted.

Everyday was making sure that the tortillas we produced were excellent and qualified to go out to our customers. What i learned while working there was the inspection of tortillas (width, diameter, and color) and checking the moisture to see if the tortillas were to our standards. We had a guide that we followed and pictures to help us identify what a specific tortilla was suppose to look like. I also inspected the conveyor lines that the tortillas ran on; to make sure it was clean and sanitized before being packed and sent off. Our management made sure we were always doing our best and making sure we worked smarter and not harder. Everyday we documented and reported through an email stating the status of production. And it helped management see what we were doing and how much we accomplished in a day. The hardest part of the job was placing bad batches of tortillas on hold. Rechecking moisture's of 20+ pallets was extremely hard but we all managed as a team to get through even the toughest moments on the job. And with a team of 30 Quality Assurance techs, we did an amazing job working together. What i enjoyed most about the job was working with the managers and discussing our everyday plans for our production for the week.

MACHINE OPERATOR                                                                                                02/2006 – 09/2009   AMCORE PET PACKAGING                                                                                           FORT WORTH, TX 
• Safely operate machinery and packaging equipment. • Maintain clean, neat and organized work area. • Follow regulations, safety guidelines, and company procedures at all times. • Perform daily checklists to ensure everything was working properly. • Make adjustments on the equipment.        
SUPERVISOR, MACHINE OPERATOR, LEAD AND QUALITY ASSURANCE TECH           05/2010-Current                                                                              MISSION FOODS                                                                                                                      HAYWARD, CA • Set up machinery to get them ready at start-ups. • Have knowledge of all the formulas and their specifications. • Followed all standard operation procedures and safety guidelines. • Complied statistical information for daily reports. • Monitor settings in machinery to comply with company requirements. • Fix daily problems, and teamwork for better results. • Provide information and training to new employees.  • Maintain the work area clean and organized. • Inspect equipment prior to start -up, and for changeovers. • Conduct routine inspections, and lab analysis on product. • Verify raw material against quality standards and adherence to specifications. • Daily use of Excel, Power Point and SAP computer programs.

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