operator

senior operator

maintenance technician

assembly operator

setter

Novares

What is the best part of working at the company?
the people on my shift are close to the best people you can ask to have as co-workers!!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Having to work 58 hours a week and more than likely not have any work to do when you get there.  This is definitely the first job that I've had that frowns upon sweeping or cleaning .  Most places see it as you are taking initiative and staying busy doing something productive instead of standing around talking or more or less having social hour on company time.  And to top it all off we have to fill out this movie production paper that accounts for all of our time and what it was that we were working on or supposed to be working on down to the minute more or less.  On top of the paperwork we are supposed to write down all of our stats and reasons why we did or didn't get our hourly target or not.  If you are unfortunate enough to get to run one of the cells (was told that I would get an extra dollar an hour for every machine that I learned how to run) that is usually more than a one person job so you end up doing two or three peoples jobs to just barely keep the machine with enough parts to stay running.  It is a very stressfull job and at the end of the day your not any different or anything special than someone whos job it is to weld or put o rings on all night. Only difference is they have a lot less stress and responsibility than an operator but make the exact pay.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It would not be bad but there is always that one or two people who well for example say this person gets caught with food on the floor and proceed to say well I should be able to have this since they are listening to a Bluetooth speaker right there!! If there weren't people like that around it wouldn't bee too horrible .. Yet there are always those leads or supervisors that will knit pick about little suff that isn't hurting or bothering anyone like having my jacket hanging up on a rack near where my work area is ,  they won't even say anything to me or the person's who's jacket it is instead telling a couple of female co-workers to come tell me or whom ever has clothes hanging up to hang them on the coat hooks that are behind a partition blocking the view so nobody will be seen going through your stuff

If you NEED a job, they are always hiring. Turn over is very high, so don't bother making friends, they'll typically be gone in a month anyway. We often resort to physical characteristics instead of names because people come and go so fast. If your lucky enough to stick around you will eventually be assigned a "teir" level that decides your pay. Each level adds $1 to your pay. Except, there's no way to get past a level 2. Only so many level 3s per shift and they never move up so, your inadvertently capped, with no more raises. Work-life balance doesn't exist. They consistently work Mon-Sat and when people get fed up and max out on points, they relent for and A-B schedule for Saturdays for a few weeks. Don't worry about lack of overtime, pandering for Sundays and Holidays are an everyday thing. With all the experience, you should be able to crank out the mostly modest rate right ? Wrong. 80% of the equipment there is ancient and barely functioning. There isn't a budget to maintain it either. They guys do the best they can to keep it operating but bubblegum and duct tape can only do so much. Management doesn't care, get the parts out, period. Likely the order will be "hot" or even expedited meaning you need to have a certain amount by a certain time, often every couple hours. So when parts are there, expect to work hard and get moved often. The team on the floor is a pretty decent, most are veterans that have been there decades and know all the tricks. Morale is very, very low. Most are like family, maybe because you'll see them more than your actual family. Upper management, well, it sucks. They seem to have no actual idea of the parts, the process or anything else. Just numbers. Most are vastly overwhelmed by the position they hold. Turn over is just as bad there. Besides the randomly appearing points, short pay, demeaning attitudes and day to day uncertainty that the place will be open tomorrow, it's really not bad pay for fairly easy work. 

I have been at this company for 10 months and worked 3rd shift. Even with asking for advancement im still the lowest you can be as i have not been given any opportunity to move up. With only one 20 minute break i am not allowed to rest or even ask for a pay raise for grueling work. If im not feeling well and lay my head down, even for a second on a table, it gets brought to my attention at some point  Different shifts have different styles of work ethic and there is only one source of consistency and thats that there is one line with the same people everyday and youre expected to bust your butt while you watch everyone else in the factory stand around and goof off and talk. Whilst we all make the same wage. HR is strict and there is definitely favoritism across the board. The raise at the end of the year varies on your review score, but if youve used any attendance points dont expect a decent raise.

Since Novares and their terrible style of management bought MPC out , it is ONE of the most unappreciated, depressing, cheap and disrespectful places for a person to work.  Honestly have NOTHING good to say, BAD things to say is a long list here are just a few things I find Important, 1) Morale is terrible, 2) wages keep a person in poverty and never able to rid a person's stressors in life (being able to pay bills) 3) Inexperienced  and disconnected management , lacks the desire and experience to build a team environment. Someone new to position is unwilling to see anyone but themselves,  4) non competitive wages. Good workers leave while desperate and  insecure people stay because they do not have the confidence in themselves to find something better . If you are desperate and need a job to support your family or yourself, I would suggest you apply somewhere else!

Overall the company is a nice place to work and they do need to pay us more for the work we do. This company need to give us a bonus for the for the hard work we do and at least give us a Christmas bonus but they don't. 

We are team players at this company and we do have a fun on our job but we do know that we must make sure our customers are happy with the products that we send them. We have a good Supervisor and a good human resource personnel department.

I have been with the company for twenty-two years and it has been a good place to work. They do give us a turkey for Thanksgiving but sometime maybe they could give us a ham once in awhile and I enjoy working for the company. I don't really have anything else to say I've said all I can about the company. We as employees do get together and have pot lucks on certain occasions.

A typical day as a "process technician" meant 8-12 mold changes where you can never find what you need and everything is always broken. 42 minutes for a mold change is a great goal but an absolutely unachievable reality given the constant hunt for equipment and repairs. No organization and not a big enough plant. Abysmal treatment from your superiors since you're just their wage slave. And are you fairly compensated for this at least? Only with overtime which is never optional and is absolutely painful to your body. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Absolutely nothing terrible company to work for and they don’t have a union so you get treated terribly 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The higher ups coming to the floor to harass you about not meeting your quota but the machines go down an awful amount of times and techs have to come fix it

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Dirtiest place I’ve ever worked at and I do mean the dirtiest! Very unfriendly environment 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful and you worked 10 every day mon-sun

Definitely not worth the time and energy. Drama, just like highschool, never have what you need, they hire just to have ppl stand around and send ppl home daily, communication is poor, and it's definitely not getting better, unorganized, they place ppl in positions who have no idea what it feels like to be a operator, if you want to have a bad work experience this is the place to waste your time cause that's all they do. You come in frustrated more than anything daily to just be lied to and lead to a dark hole of uncertainty. Stay away far away.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Air quality very low, secondary machines breaking down a lot, some work rate stations are impossible.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Secondary machines constantly breaking down.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
A lot of gossip. Supervisor having employee pets

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful due to break downs Not enough for maintenance personnel.

Not really a good place to work taking advantage of if you do try to sign up for overtime then they expected from you they don't like to pay for holidays they don't like to communicate.
Alot of People are very rude close door in your face and talk in a different language like you to dumb to comprehend your being discussed,  Female management is sweet on guys that flirt with them if you dont show them any interest you get fired

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Operator 1 salary reported	$18.50 per hour
Senior operator 20 salaries reported	$17.50 per hour
Maintenance technician 5 salaries reported	$26.96 per hour
Assembly operator 9 salaries reported	$17.50 per hour
Setter 1 salary reported	$28.00 per hour

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