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The forestry/log buying staff were an amazing team, and I'm a far better forester for having worked with those people. Every one of them taught me something, and they were all great foresters and coworkers. The local management was great in the last years I was there. My procurement manager in particular really helped me develop in areas where I struggled. We were all very dedicated and supported each other well, however corporate did not value the work we did, how we exceeded our profit goals, or the excellent team-dynamic we built. Compensation policies did not reward achievement, and benefits were overall disappointing. Blame for failures and employee dissatisfaction was often shifted to local management, and local successes were attributed to regional performance as a whole and not credited properly to our local leadership and team achievement. Compensation was significantly below national statistics for industry foresters, and raises were rare and hard to earn. The levels of paperwork and administrative tasks were higher than at the other firms where I've worked. Talent was also not identified and employees were not developed in any way by corporate, nor was this encouraged. A few experienced local foresters took it upon themselves to develop us younger people in the field. Talent in our mill office staff was similarly under-utilized for many years. One individual in particular was not given proper credit for her self-taught skills and expertise until a massive restructuring of her department forced corporate to identify her value.

Wrong people get promoted. I’ve seen people scream and swear and make others cry. They are then promoted quality control manager next year. Makes absolutely no sense as this culture will get you nothing but high turnover overall. Quality control is also all over the place If you’re a grader, as all wood mills, expect drugs and other stuff such as poor work conditions, poor management, poor pay, lots of saw dust and loud noise. This place would do a lot better if they saw the potential in the employees who actually had it and cared, not the ones who were actually legitly managing while going to anger management at the same time… that says it all. Safety is very good here and daily meetings are done to ensure people know what to do. Most companies do not do this. A company is all not just one man, but one man can ruin a company.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Horrible experience it started out okay some of the coworkers are awesome but management is horrible there don’t expect to get the right training and get yelled at for it and work 8 different jobs at the same time. Management won’t take you seriously and could care less about you I don’t think I’ve had a worse experience in my life and everyone that works there will say the same. Management is very unprofessional and very poor at making plans quick ideas 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Everything. Not one single bit is a good work environment. The only thing good is the breaks and food they bribe you with

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Horrible and completely unacceptable and very dangerous

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Migraines, head aches and a lot of yelling at each other

A typical day at work was miserable with harassment and verbal abuse. I learned that we were underworked and underpaid. Management is the worst ever. Everyone in the workplace has a bad attitude and tried everything they can to make you lose your job. The hardest part of the job is trying to do your job without getting treated like your nothing. The only good part of the job is when you get paid but up until then you are going to be treated poorly and unfairly everyday. I worked at this company on and off for 7 years and everyday was the worst day of my life. I would have the mindset of going in and doing my job and they would harass me and try and pick on me and verbally abuse me and write me up for no reason and make me miserable. 

Sales personnel at Northwest Hardwoods typically operate in a self driven, autonomous, account management capacity.  One does get the feeling that your base of accounts are "your business" to manage without much managerial oversight.This makes it both personally satisfying and somewhat challenging as we do compete against others internally for product availability at times.

Integration of newly acquired businesses has brought a lot of opportunity, but also a lot of strain on people and systems to keep up with the expanding footprint of the organization.

The bosses for the most part do their job and make sure you are taken care of. Hot in the summers,  cold in the winters. If you work in the warehouse it is about 10-15 degreese hotter or colder than outside. Most of the time we were under staffed, so i would be doing 2 to three peoples jobs for 10 hours a day all day and expected to keep up. It is good expeirence for forklift operating  and not bad for a starting job, but the lack of benefits or ability to move up is a major deterant and i can not see myself staying in for more than a couple years.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The environment itself is what makes my job so enjoyable. I love the people and just learning something about the lumber industry everyday is something new to learn. I love my job and this is where imma retire from. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I mean I really don't stress to much over anything other than when I go that extra mile to clean up or whatever and someone comes thru and just messes it up and don't care at all

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's like my home away from home. I like everything about it. For me personally the environment is chill. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Very busy, 5am to 3 pm great shift.

My office manager and the coworker who previously left my current job position did a very smooth and very well job in training me. Everyone is very friendly there, the best job I've had, hands down. I am sadden to leave this great company and great colleagues, but sometimes personal life gives you no option. A typical day can be busy or slow, depending on how many green lumber loads comes in per day/week. There are always other work to do as well but when I have extra time I ask for more work. I never go in to work hesitant; I always love going in to work every day, knowing my boss and coworkers are always there to help me.

a typical day at work would be running as many boards as possible through my machine which was a board at your.
after the board came off the head rigged it was my job to edge the sides of the board. sometimes up to 7000 a day.
the guys I work with for great giver very experienced at the job we were one of the highest-paid Mills in Northwest hardwoods.
management was okay.
hardest part of the job was standing in one place for 9 hours a day.
the most enjoyable part of the job was receiving a paycheck every 2 weeks. I learned how to stick it out at the same job even though things were tough.

Pay is good but very difficult to receive a raise due to management discretion. 

Management feels biased and unapproachable. Communication is not great when it comes to questions about sick time, missing hours, or general timecard issues. 

Unfortunately, hours of production may be cut to 4 days/week. You are expected to work a full day of clean up per week in place of production to make up the hours. Occasionally, working a Saturday is mandatory without a timely notification. 

Training is ok but due to high employee turn around training can feel incomplete. 



Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Laborer 11 salaries reported	$22.46 per hour
Millwright 7 salaries reported	$34.87 per hour
Handler 1 salary reported	$17.63 per hour
Senior maintenance person 5 salaries reported	$22.80 per hour
Journeyperson electrician 3 salaries reported	$41.57 per hour

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