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PROS: Team members are generally salt-of-the-earth types who are happy to answer questions and steer you in the right direction.

Corporate is committed to investing capital into their facilities, so you will enter a transitional environment where things are being improved month-to-month.  Where generations of wall street firms left these facilities gutted and in disrepair, ND Paper is actually putting heavy capital into building them back up.

CONS: There is a serious disconnect with middle-management, however.  Very "make work" focused, and not really digging in to root causes of issues with staffing and daily infrastructure.  HR are the stereotypical fluff generators that will spout buzz words about corporate values, throwing "pizza parties" for morale, but holding a negative view of the personnel ("they should be grateful for what they get" is a phrase I heard).  Administrative management is very political and generally mediocre (which isn't unique to this company).

Ground level staff is often overworked and feels unheard; while management can't seem to recruit or retain sufficient talent to cover the workload during times of heavy demand.

The company is commitment to transforming under performing and under invested assets by infusing capital as well and strong processes, controls, systems and procedures.  For many years, there has been a lack of operating discipline and commitment to the operations.  Safety was overlooked, investment was lacking and the long term future was in question.  Through the transformation, ND Paper has invested heavily in the business, implemented a considerably higher level expectation in safety and brought considerable operational discipline to the mills.  Employees and the business has considerably higher expectations and is expected to move out of the past and into a more continuous improvement based mindset.  This is not for everyone ... employees who are willing to be part of the transformation are rewarded and provided with incredibly pride in turning the assets around.

New foreign owner U.S. venture.  Great expenditure into infrastructure but huge growing pains with mill culture.   Good salary but shift work hours not for everyone.  Crew reductions move lots of work onto surviving members.  Zero communication between mid level manager and anyone.  Very top heavy.  Every Technician reports directly to 6 people.  What is sorely needed is 2 more well scheduled and implemented Techs to physically improve operations.  Not half dozen people going to meetings that could be emails all while contributing zero resources to the Technicians.  Boastful safety culture that is more about compliance than actually centered around true protection of well being and safety.  Noxious fumes, hot, loud working environment.  Long shifts develop with out notice.  Generally not a nice environment to work in but in my community it pays very well.  Selling your time, health and well-being for a salary.  I made a lot of money working there.  

At first it starts off with the same we're one big family garbage and everyone acts like they're on your side for a few months. There's little to no training so, prepare to be on your own sooner than later. They're always so short staffed the person training u has to go back to their area within the week. The employees are the best part of the job. Management is terrible and wants ideas but, won't use them or will use them and act like they came up with said ideas. Prepare to work lots of Saturdays and plenty of mandatory overtime. Have a family & kids, they don't care.  Sick with a doctor's note, here's a point deduction because they came together as a collective and decided u could've been at work that day. You're just a number and the number that matters the most is the deadlines being met. I don't recommend this place to anyone because all of the good managers have since left for good reason.👎🏾👎🏾

Some people find comfort in coming into work every day and knowing what 95% of their day will look like.  If that sounds like you, do not apply to work at ND Paper.

ND Paper is a growing company with a 100-year vision and it is transforming every day.  In one year, I've witnessed huge new initiatives, large-scale reinvestment, and projects that some companies would never dare to take on.

With this transformation, comes flexibility.  If you are the type of person who loves to take on a new challenge, gains satisfaction from seeing a project through, and has no problem pivoting when necessary, please consider joining the team!  We need more creative thinkers and people who aren't afraid to dream.  

The company expects extraordinary output while providing very little clarity or direction on how to achieve it. The result is a constant sense of urgency where everything is treated as a priority, teams are asked to pivot repeatedly, and work often has to be redone. 

When people end their day feeling like their plates are full yest still incomplete, it's usually not a capacity issues but a leadership issue. 

Healthy cultures create clear priorities, provide direction, and respect the time and focus required to do meaningful work. Without those things, even the most dedicated teams will struggle to succeed. 

The company is growing and upper management is excited about it and wants the regular employees to be excited too. It's hard to be excited when you are working swing shift and a min of 12 hours of over-time per week. If you're training they want you to train on over-time, especially on your days off. Management doesn't understand why they can't keep employees here - they've hired and lost over 130 people this year due to poor leadership, mandatory over-time, and unrealistic goals. (Many don't stay more than 2 weeks.)

What is the best part of working at the company?
The salary offered was higher than normal. Still not worth it .

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Middle management was not supportive and very little training was offered. Chaos.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The worst culture I have encountered in 35 year career. Negativity and not open to innovative ideas. A protect my job mentality. Great people working there. Terrible direction from middle management.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful made more difficult by constant roll over of staff.

Long hours for just an average salary pay. Things constantly have to be fixed because there's no funding and you have to work around it all the time, so the staff constantly get the short end of the stick.

I don't like how they don't address problems until they become critical. They don't fix it until someone gets hurt or it's a liability. It's a joke. 

The hardest part of the job is becoming incorporated. Everyone here either knows each other or has been in the industry for years. I was compared to everyone else, and I had no guidance, just 'hints' to improve. Both lower and upper management management is poor, just look at the other reviews. 

You can never expect to leave work on time. If your shift is supposed to be done at 2:00 and there are still orders to be ran, you’ll be told you’re not being a “team player” if you choose to leave and have a life outside of work. Some days will be an 8 hour shift, others could be an 11 hour shift. Very unorganized and short staffed. Everybody on the work floor is expected to sacrifice their time outside of work to pickup the slack for upper mgmt. Broken machinery will only be fixed if it is absolutely unable to run. If it can still run but you have to do a few work arounds, you’ll be expected to deal with it because a repair “isn’t in the budget” until it’s completely broken.

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