production worker

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Morton-Salt

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working for an Iconic company. Morton Salt is very well known. The salary is fair and the compensation / benefits are good.


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The culture starting at the top all the way to the workers on the floor. No consideration for people's lives away from work. no" good morning" how are you doing. Nothing like that. The plant at Port Canaveral has fostered a culture of good ol boy club. if you are an outsider, you will not be accepted and the people who have been there for years will treat you poorly. that plant thrives on chaos and that is what the old timers create.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is horrible. The plant is full of rust on the machines. The atmosphere is misty most of the time from the water / humidity in the air or when it rains, and the doors are open. The forklifts track rainwater and mud and dirt into the plant making the floors slippery and dangerous conditions to work around.  Most if not all the metal surfaces are completely rusted including the forklifts. The tools in toolboxes rust within weeks after purchase. I could go on n on about this place.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day is just getting through it. Anything can happen. Equipment break downs are a daily occurrence. That time is used to try to clean up the place. Only that time is used for cleanup. When the plant is running and spills happen, they are just pushed out of the way so production can continue. Water on the floor. No problem it will dry up. No need to get a squeegee and make it safe to walk on. It's just a bad place to work.

Pay is at or above other comparable jobs, but you will be advised by most employees to check to pay-stub weekly for errors which may negate that.
Insurance is expensive with a high deductible.
Low standards make anyone capable of doing their own job a stand-out, and they will almost always receive an increased workload with the same standard benefits.
Accountability for hourly workers is selective, while seemingly non-existent for management. This leads to good workers leaving and taking their knowledge with them after being over-relied on for months/years. The company's continued disinterest in adequately training or compensating replacements creates a cycle of necessary jobs being hard to fill across EVERY DEPARTMENT.
Corporate is seemingly unaware the plant has run itself into the ground, or does not care as long as food safety audits get passed.
Rules may exist, but get very selectively interpreted.
Lots of overtime available and often mandatory.
High turnover leads to frequently working 7 day work weeks or 12&16 hour shifts, which causes more turnover, rinse and repeat.
Most people make it a few years and decide the higher than average pay rate for manufacturing (which is negligible if you factor in the expensive benefits) isn't worth the aforementioned work demand. The others keep their heads down and enjoy the coat-tails of the hard workers before they're driven away.

What is the best part of working at the company?
This is a company that actually takes care of it's employees. Uniforms, quarterly bonuses, family days, and approachable management have made this place bearable for the conditions. I don't dread coming to work. You'll get covered in salt from time to time, but not always. Just toss your uniform into the bin at the end of shift, use an air wand to blow off anything else, and you're good to go. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The only imaginary stress is brought on by wanting to get the conveyors or production equipment back up on line to help your team. Everyone chips in to help which lowers stress. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I have worked in the cleanest of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants and here at Morton Salt. I enjoy the culture of the work team environment much more here. People dont run and hide when there is a problem. They all grab tools and get the system back on line. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I come in at 2:45 pm and tie in with first shift. The assignments for my shift are in my wall file. I assess my projects, move the most important tasks to the top, fill out appropriate Job Hazard Analysis and LOTO forms, get them signed by second shift supervisor, assemble my crash cart and attend to the problems. Third shift tie-in happens at the end of my shift.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There is really no best part.  Most of the co-workers are great.  

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No communication.  The CHRO is hateful and disrespectful to employees beneath her level.  Positions are eliminated and the employees in those positions are the last to find out yet others in the department are informed before them and the person losing their job has to train the person that is taking over their job.  Moral sucks in the HR department.  Thirteen employees have left in the last year, some forced, some because of the CHRO and some because of the vision they see on where this company and department is headed.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Horrible!  The CEO is oblivious to what the CHRO has done to the HR Department.   Employees cannot work remotely, yet most of the HR managers are in different states.  There are two HR managers that actually work in the office.  Jobs in the HR arena are hard to fill due to the reputation of the CHRO.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Quiet, do my job and go home.  Stressful and a lot of tension when the CHRO is in the office.

I got no training. I was thrown into the entire job on the first day. Thank goodness there were filing cabinets full of previous employee work product. When the person who hired me left the company, the person who replaced him had less education and experience than I did but I wasn't considered since I was a woman.

I loved dealing with the retirees and helping them with their medical insurance problems and submissions. I also loved dealing with the employees in the plant and mine but found the other salaried employees unfriendly and unhelpful some even hostile because I got the job and their friend didn't

I learned a great deal about insurance and workers compensation. Since Morton Salt was self insured, I worked with their contractors who managed the claims. I also was able to home my typing and telephone skills, especially my typing skills. I had to deal with much statistical typign and had verious projects where I had to create and publish my work This required a lot ov typing that needed to be done quickly.

Excellent Company to work for. Friendly, caring co-workers, as well as Management. A typical work day, would start with a cup of coffee from the small dining / fax/copying  space, along with toaster & Fridge.  Where co-workers chated about upcoming events,new employees, what was to be accomplished that day, or what you hoped to accomplish before the end of the work day.

I would say the hardest part would be when the day ended,and you weren't able to complete all task on your agenda for that day.

The most enjoyable part was the activities lined up for the employees,such as "Secret Santa, and the Christmas parties,as well as outdoor events, such as pinics, and baseball games,as well as meeting your co-workers children and their spouses. A Chance to mingle and talk about each other lives outside of Morton.

Morton was brought out by K+S Group of which I give A Five Star Rating in Compensation / Benefits,culture/values, Job security / advancement,management, and work / Life Balance.

Thanks for the opportunity.

The plant is close to home, and the hourly rate is better than average for the area. Granted the cost of healthcare negates any pay advantage. Employees in the lower pay tier likely are losing half their pay in healthcare costs if they have a family. 

Most days you really have to wonder how the place manages to stay in business. They continually spend heaps of money on 'improvements" that aren't meaningful, while the rest of the equipment fails at a rapid rate. 

Working in skilled trades is not too bad as long as you learn not to care. Still, it does get frustrating dealing with incompetent coworkers on a daily basis. Maintenance planning was not the best, then the new owners fired the planner, so now it's a complete mess.

There's a lot of turnover, especially in the production jobs. Strangely, many people don't like working an off shift seven day straight with no overtime, and maybe a shift swing to boot. 




Jobs are relatively easy, especially for the pay. You can’t find higher pay in the area without an education anywhere else. 

Management is not good. As people they are great, but hardly any of them are good at their jobs. Maybe corporate puts too much pressure on them, I don’t know. Bottom line is, there is a culture issue here and it all starts with the lazy, incompetent and self-righteous “leadership” we currently have in place. 

Very poor work/life balance, but it pays the bills right? You will work a lot, sometimes forced sometimes not. Depends on where you are.

Often feels as though management as a whole looks down upon you as a “measly plant worker” rather than an intelligent human being, which at times is frustrating. 

There is no real advancement. Less you have a degree and a way into the supervisory/managerial side of things.

Overall, could be far better. Could be far worse. 

This company has some very great attributes but also has some terrible ones too. Salaried personnel is well compensated but I am not sure about the union positions other than there is a tiered system and some jobs compensate more than others. There is a safety participation program that allows employees to earn points for gift cards each quarter. Benefits are nice but the cost for them could be better. Communication is something the company could greatly improve on, as well as the cut-throat tactics within management. They claim nothing is more important than safety but that can be questioned at times. There is a constant rotating door of new-hires. Adherence to procedures is pretty lax sometimes. It's easy to follow the rules, as long as you know what the rules are that day.

Careful with HR, they speak any means to get you in the door, especially scheduling. 
Pay is pretty good, however there current insurance package is terrible compared to other competeing companies, mine as well accept another job for a few dollars less an hour for better insurance.
Work/Life balance is terrible, count on working pretty much every holiday.
CO-workers and even Supervisors are good people, and pleasant to work with.
Morale is pretty low.
PTO is low, compared to other competeing companies.
The problem I see is management is so used to pushing around the senior workers who have 20+ years service who cannot make a career change this late in there life, the company is used to getting there way. New workers see this mistreatment, and quickly leave, therefore the company has a high turnover rate, especially in the maintenance department.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production worker 13 salaries reported	$25.94 per hour
Supply chain specialist 3 salaries reported	$89,333 per year
Laborer 3 salaries reported	$20.60 per hour
Analyst 4 salaries reported	$69,250 per year
It project manager 1 salary reported	$100,000 per year

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