machine operator

electromechanical maintenance mechanic

facilitator

utility worker

manufacturing supervisor

Pacific Southwest Container, LLC

I came into this company with fresh eyes and loved what they presented. It left me hopeful and optimistic about my future. Then I worked here for just a week and started to immediately see the flaws. I learned a lot here as an employee, with mostly self-taught skills that you developed when a facilitator would yell at you for problems you can't control. The middle management has problems making decisions and will have you act in their favor. When you express a problem with the process and make it clear several times about said problem, you still get yelled at and they will throw you under the bus when said order fails. 
-The whole process with sending out orders is disorganized and messy. 
-Favoritism is a huge problem here with middle management or buddy system to keep certain people out of trouble but will try to get others fired
(If they don't like you and you're not stroking their ego - doesn't take much for them to not like you either) 
(They treat hard working people terribly regardless of merit)
-Upper management cares more about the office workers 
- The new thru put 2.0 (bonus) is laughable 
There is just a lot of problems when working for a company like this. 
It's hard to trust anyone there. I've spoken to people who have worked their 10+ years and all I hear is regret for staying.
If you do decide to work here, just use it for your resume and move on. 

I enjoyed the Company, the processes, the people for the most part. Pay is above average for manufacturing and cannot complain at the generosity of the owners for how they provide a good wage. 

My difficulty, along with how others expressed their difficulty was with location upper management. Sets high expectations but fails often to tell you what they are. When seeking answers to a problem, your often met with blank looks as if you should know the answer because it was obvious. When proposing disciplinary actions for people violating serious procedures or rules, the decision to take action is selective and imbalanced. Some middle management peers untrained on how to manage in California environment yell and curse at employees but since they are yes men to upper management it goes un addressed. 

Again I say Pay is good, Company is good, opportunity to learn and grow is good, the people are good, Location upper management needs serious reconsideration in my opinion.

PSC is a great place to get experience in maintenance. I started in manufacturing and expressed my interest in maintenance and I was brought into the department and trained well. It’s a very personal job, you have to be motivated. Tasks are given out and there is accountability within the department, but I would say that you have to be very personally motivated to achieve anything more than status quo. Achieving higher than status quo will get you recognized within the department and your work load and responsibilities may grow. You kind of have to get on the good side of your coworkers to be accepted into the culture. Don’t be an outsider, but also don’t let the culture weigh you down. Learn as much as possible from the seasoned mechanics and ask a lot of questions. It’s a very good gig. This job is what you make of it. I saw many come and fail in a lot of ways because they weren’t working well with the other guys. 

Working for PSC Modesto Branch in the warehouse was not fun at all. You would get box cuts on your hands almost every day; your required to wear gloves but when you do you can't grip anything because your hands sweat to much, so you have to take them off to pick up the pace when loading stock into the machinery. Besides learning what clients PSC deals with, I didn't learn much.  Management was awful, no one wants to admit to their mistakes so when lower management asks you to do something and upper management asks you why your doing something a certain way, lower management will always side with upper and make you look like an idiot by saying they told you to follow company procedures or something. Hardest part of the job is when you find a way to do something more efficient and management cracks down on you for not following the rules when they're so lenient on all other rules. Besides paid vacation or sick days there was nothing enjoyable about this job.

PSC is a box making company with many departments spread over 4 facilities. (3 in Modesto 1 in Visalia)
You will work overtime. If you need cash it's a great place to soak that with a good company that manages 401ks. Benefits aren't bad albeit a little pricey.
Summer high season is generally every other Saturday. (occassionally and more recently Sundays as well)
Couple departments have Pittman/AWS schedule - 2on/2off/3on/2off/2on/3off - which is great if you manage to get days but absolutely sucks if you're on nights.
If you need a job and are willing to learn something you can move up pretty quick.
19-28 is easily accessible. Paid for company wide meetings and once a year big family bbq.
Work life balance is garbage and upper management lives in an ivory tower completely detached from the floor. If you are late more than a few times or burn your 5 california mandated sick days you are gone. Turnover is high.

I worked for a very good group of maintenance techs. The environment is high pressure and fast paced but kept me on my toes. The production management seems lost and doesn’t do much to help the operators or atleast build a healthy work environment. They quickly point the finger at a problem and don’t work to fix or find a solution, unfortunately my maintenance manager has to shoulder a lot of that. He does a great job of standing up for his team and figuring out the real issues, he also is not afraid to hold his own team accountable. PSC is great at training and growing people but terrible at retaining, no direction on opportunities for advancement and the expectations seem to be higher than most places that pay more. They need to do better at training the senior operators and taking care of their maintenance staff financially.

Moving to PSC was definitely an upgrade. Majority of management is easy to get along with if you can do the bare minimum of doing your job. Pay is competitive and job bids are there for floor workers/production. Progression is harder outside of being a floor worker or operator. Quarterly meetings with senior management to keep things transparent,  consistent upgrade and solid improvement programs that actially pay employees for submitting. (Up to $2,500 if it's the #1 pick). 

Don't know why some above lied about "2 sick days" after saying CA gives you 3. They can't give you less than the state law enforces, nor write you up for using them.. you get five sick days now and they can't do anything about you using them. If you gotta lie, you probably got fired for being lazy and have no real complaints.

A lot of great people in this company. Unfortunately, the management has been plagued with supervisors that pick and choose who to support. As a woman and a mother, I found it very difficult to advance and I experienced a culture of exclusion and deception. 
PSC is working quite hard to improve the way they treat their employees, unfortunately that takes some time and employees who need the support being offered the most are being discarded even if they have been loyal and hard working employees for many many years. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
We get a paid lunch break and scan life insurance policy paid by the company. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Favoritism and ego of upper management, not enough consistency in the way certain situations are handled.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
You have to be in their box in order to be promoted, and although the entire company is supposed to be a team, there is definitely obvious segregation between the office and the production. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
It's a box manufacturing company so, go in, do your job and worry about yourself, because you'll make yourself crazy trying to figure out why things are done the way they are.

I started as machine operator first day of training saw the jobs posted up fir urgently needed to filled because the next day I was geting certified for forklift and trai ING for that. Learned fast in one year achieved an attaway award.  
It's not the co.panys fault I kept to myself the domestic violence I was going through. I should of spoke up . They just got licensed councils for us employees to vent or talk about anything we want pretty much . There su h an awesome company.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Machine operator 6 salaries reported	$27.14 per hour
Electromechanical maintenance mechanic 7 salaries reported	$34.35 per hour
Facilitator 6 salaries reported	$81,375 per year
Utility worker 6 salaries reported	$19.61 per hour
Manufacturing supervisor 2 salaries reported	$95,000 per year

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