maintenance technician

machine operator

production supervisor

inspector/packer

quality assurance inspector

Pretium Packaging

A typical day work consists of Daily Production Entry to establish daily efficiency. Next is the processing of checking and time punch detail adjustments to be entered into our corporate dashboard reporting. Once these jobs are completed, I go and get the mail, sort and distribute. Then, it is on to payables. With payables, I check to see if purchase order numbers are needed; if so I create purchase orders, wait for approval and then receive the purchase, and then enter into Oracle invoices once the invoice has been matched to the approved p.o. and packing list. Once all of this has been completed, I enter or properly mark the purchase into Quicken to keep track of the monthly spending. Freight invoices are handled differently. They are documented on a "freight log" and when the invoice has been received the invoice number is entered on the log to show which loads are still open. At the end of every month I email the loads to each of the freight companies that have hauled the loads in order to get as many outstanding invoices possible before the books are closed at the end of the month. Once all of these tasks have been completed, I move onto any other tasks that are assigned to me by either my direct supervisor or the plant manager.

As a truck driver, I believe the transportation department could be managed more fairly and efficiently. Workload was not consistently distributed equally among drivers. Some employees were expected to handle warehouse, plant, and driving responsibilities simultaneously, while others had significantly lighter workloads even in cases involving prior equipment incidents.

Communication with supervisors was often difficult, particularly when raising concerns about fairness or workload distribution. At times, expectations appeared unrealistic given the available time. In local trucking, certain assignments reasonably require 10–12 hours to complete efficiently and safely, yet were routinely expected to be finished within an 8 hr shift.
Additionally, frequent management changes created confusion and reduced consistency in operations. With stronger leadership, clearer communication, and more equitable treatment of employees, the work environment could improve significantly.

I also felt that pay did not adequately reflect experience or responsibility levels. More experienced drivers with warehouse experience were often compensated at the same rate as newer employees with less driving knowledge and no warehouse responsibilities.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part of working here is the hours. 40-50 hours per week. Soon to be changed back to the old schedule, which is Monday and Tuesday,off Wednesday and Thursday, work Friday Saturday and Sunday,then off Monday and Tuesday,work Wednesday and Thursday,then the weekend off. So it would be 36 hours one week and 48 the next. The pay is decent compared to other companies around here. Management could use help. They're kind of all over the place atm. But slowly getting things back in order. It's a great place to work. The people you work with are awesome.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management. They expect a little too much of everyone, as we are shorthanded since the mass layoff in September. Other than that, it's a great place to work!

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Pretty laid back. For the most part.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stay pretty busy, which is good. makes time go by faster. Some days are better than others. Like anywhere.

Management and especially Human Resources is dirty. HR is constantly looking for reasons to write people up or fire them. There is no job security there. You can search around the internet for people that say the same thing about our specific facility in Salt Lake City. Definitely not a place I would recommend.

You are nothing to them. Easily replaceable. And they treat you like it.

Training is great but only up to a certain point. After that you are expected to know everything there is to know about the machines and training stops. Everyone there has sticky fingers where your tools are concerned. Their machines are in really poor condition along with their old worn out molds. They do not want to fix anything unless they absolutely have to. 

Starting out it was okay to work for them. but then after about 8 months i began having to move to other positions or be fired. Worked in 3 different departments before i eventually moved on. they will let you move up or to other positions if they can and need someone, that is after about a 1 year wait for them to find someone to take your current position. overall they are an uncaring place to work for and will not allow you to have a personal life. Many times i had to come in to help out and work for other departments. one day i even had to do a volun-told 17 hour day because they were so short handed. overall i would not work for them if i had known all the stress and pains this company would cause. i could not in good conscience recommend anyone to work here.

Poor Management - In the 2 years I worked there all three managers I had were brought it from outside the company and had terrible people managing skills and did not do the job themselves which makes it hard for them to help with when it is needed. When the positions were open long time 5+ year CSR team members applied but were told by management that "they were not qualified" 
Terrible work life balance - You are forced into one of three time slots and will not get a new time slot until there is a position open. All CSR members have to clock in and out. There is a point system setup that will hurt you if you leave early or come in late for any reason. Any points will hurt your chances of getting raises. 
Next to no company culture
A very strong "I do not need to thank you because its your job mentality"

Hired right on..  Schedule was a joke..  Asked from the beginning for 8 hour shift as i could be home in the evenings with my kids but they scheduled me for 12s anyway..  Set that aside..  Knowing 12s would be rough on my old body.. 
Knowing my limit..  They still pressed you to do more than you could handle..  12 bucks an hour is too low for the amount of work they want you to put out.  If god forbid someone saw you backed up on your many lines and wanted to help you they would get yelled at and threatened to get wrote up..  Not a good team atmosphere ...
The lady that hired me let her power get to her head and always talked down to everyone..  She was rude and hateful and just plain  mean..  The day she quit the employees had a party..  Kinda like thw wizard of oz..  Ding dong the wicked witch is gone party...

There's some days that aren't too bad at Pretium but they are far and few between now. Out of all the manufacturing companies that I see around here, they seem to have the worst wages for the hard work and positions people hold. Besides the shift-supervisor, I pretty much run the floor since he stays in his office most of the day, as well as many other managers. With all that being said, after 3 years, I have only made it up to $11.25 an hour and I keep coming to the realization that, what I do, would be making possibly $15+ elsewhere. The packers start off as a temporary at $9.00 and after 6 months to a year, you'll become full-time, with an insulting 25 cent raise. These are the main reason I'm looking to take another path in life and one of the main reasons that Pretium has such a high turnover rate.

I work with plastic pellets which produced bottles for various company's. I was responsible for refilling the materials packaging the finished product staging for shipping. I also maintained operations , trouble shooting and mechanics. I learned how to install molds and and maintain the day to day cycling of a blow molding machine. My co-workers were very helpful with teaching me the daily operations. Learning the machine and it's operations on my own was pretty hard because my co-workers had to do their work so at times they could not take time to help. I enjoyed the fact that I was the only one out of many that fixed the machine and could let it run through out my 12hr shift and beyond that's when I knew I'd mastered this gremlins in the machine.

The work itself was very good i really liked it, i learned how to make work orders for the production area using CAMM. The Management was very poor no communication skills and lack of approaching workers not reliable when it came down to taking days off because of everyday life issues like surgeries or emergencies. Coworkers were good to work with would follow rules, the hardest part was not getting proper training so i had to learn everything on my own only got a 3 day training do to the fact that my boss quit a week before i started so i really had to find a way of getting myself educated on what things had to be done. The most enjoyable part of my job was working with a variety of people from all over the world lots of different cultures.

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Inspector/packer 17 salaries reported	$17.65 per hour
Quality assurance inspector 2 salaries reported	$18.63 per hour

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