laborer

forklift operator

local driver

warehouse worker

yard driver

Propak Logistics LLC

What is the best part of working at the company?
At propak there is alot of potential for advancement. I started as a sorter, an entry level position, and was then offered a builders position in just a month, which comes with a pay raise.You can then make hourly and piece-work pay. At the time it was $10 + .50 for every pallet you repaired. As a builder you had a limitless amount of pallets to repair dropped off right at your station, and some people were building  over 500 a day that's $300 or over $60,000 a year! After just a couple months I was promoted again to maintenance and given a $3.00 raise. 3 months in that position and another 2-raises totalling another 3.50 raise and made a company lead in safety and risk management and was given supervisor responsibilities and my own office. I was them made regional Chairman of safety and risk management and head of maintenance II due to my welding experience and mechanical aptitude at the McCarran site,  I got experience working on a fleet of forklifts and haul trucks and gained a ton of experience in the maintenance department working with vendors, meeting with investors on site and trained with corporate in HR online in risk management strategy. A few months into that I was nmade head of maintenance and on site risk management over all employees, new hires and the fleet and facility maintenance bas well as budget expenses for on site ordering of PPE,  maintenance supplies for facility upkeep and OSHA compliance .  I now oversaw the fleet by working with vendors, was reporting directly to corporate on site safety and compliance, and was charged with all incident reports and investigations,  new hire orientation & onboarding, training new hires, and task training current employees post incident, OSHA compliance and logistics on production while reporting directly to corporate management In HQ. I was tasked to train all new hires  oversee all vendors order all site supplies and tasked in increasing production while reducing turn over rates and loss time  incidents LTA's. This all occurred my first year. So I'd say the best thing about the company is that if your a hard worker, the potential for growth and getting paid what you deserve is going to happen at propak logistics 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
As part of a fast pased workforce in pallet precurement in reverse logistics for Walmarts DC the timeframe your expected to maintain is pretty fast. As a sorter or forklift operator your expected to have to unload 20+ trailers a day. As a builder they needed you to build over 350 pallets a day in an 8 hour day. And as a supervisor your expected to oversee all this while filling out a multitude of paperwork for every aspect of running a corporate business while consistently having to sit into staff meeting on site and online while satisfying investors and corporate management and increasing production and reducing turn over and LTA's. I'd say time management is the most stressful part of working for propak logistics 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The environment was good. If production was met for the month we would have a company bbq every Payday where management cooked for you. They also had incentives and gave out rewards for safety, incident reporting and making production requirements. Every supervisor was responsible for picking at least 1 employee in their respective department and giving them the award for the week. That employee was then given points that they could spend on a company online store that offered a wide range of rewards like company t shirts hoodies, hats, cool gear like yeti coolers or camp gear or even save up points and use them for an extra day off work. This was a pretty impressive program and you could be rewarded heavily if you worked hard enough 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Go go go. There was no time to sit around and talk. We all had numbers to meet and worked as a team to get it done. As maintenance I did every aspect of keeping the place running and even would work in production either building pallets or sorting them out if we were short staffed. Even the site manager would come work directly with the sorting department directly with the new hires, and it showed how we were all part of the same team with the same goal in mind. Let's get our job done and Work as a team and get everyone home safely every day

This company is a sham. They have the most incompetent management I have ever had the misfortune of working with in my 17 years of working experience. They do not know how to talk to people and instead treat you like you’re just another object for them to misuse. The management is a gang and will team-up on employees they don’t like to get them fired. 

Every decision made is purely ego driven and the communication is next to none. They expect you to accomplish your job with no training. The culture is non existent, and the atmosphere is one of a prison yard as nearly everyone is an ex-con. The management does not coach or have patience. They will belittle you and be very rude to you, yet get away with it even though there are cameras which catch their abhorrent acts.  No one can own-up to their mistakes, especially management, and everyone just makes excuses and passes the buck. 

There is no incentive to work here, no perks to the job.  Their ‘benefits’ are laughable. The warehouse is dirty and attitudes among the employees are generally bad as they are working for incompetent management for low pay. They will promise you a raise when they first hire you, but then will actively seek reasons why they don’t have to give you that raise. Horrible, horrible place to work. 

This company reminds me of the horror stories I’ve heard about working in factories back when the industrial revolution hit. This place will crush your spirit. You will feel forsaken by the gods if you choose to work here. 

This is the best job that I have had in the civilian world. As a Former Marine I have worked for multiple manufacturing companies and been successful in the civilian world and this one fits me the best by far. 

The job satisfaction is very high for me here. As a Plant Manager I am not micromanaged, something that I have learned is very rare. Though always available my Manager has been great about giving me the latitude to do what I know is best within my plant. 

What we do is important and I can go home everyday knowing that the team here has gotten the job done. I love the fact that we can measure ourselves everyday, and thereby know whether or not we have had a good day. 

The support that I get from the Corporate Office is great. Picking up the phone and getting the answer right away is also something that I have found is very rare. 

One of the most important things to me is having a great work, life balance. I have been able to achieve that within this company in spite of the fact that I took over a plant that was in need of a turnaround. 

Finally, the people that I work with everyday are great. Propak really does give people a chance to prove themselves and the team that we have here is very valuable to me both personally and professionally. There have been some very difficult decisions to make, but Propak really does take care of it's people. 

Bottom line is, if you want a chance to get in with a good company under good management and grow with that company, Propak is a very good place for you.

The company itself is good. But the management and office team workers have poor communication and leadership skills and respect for the employees. They aren't very organized about company policies, procedures and safety regulation. The plant/office managers took advantage of their position and uses their power to operate the company.  Sometimes its like they let employees go just because UTAH is the right to work state in other words they will fire you if they want to without any written or verbal warning. The only time they will act within their title is when an inspection is due from OSHA or a visit from corporate. The company turnover rate is so high. Employees  just come and go almost every other month.  I say this because this was my first job I got when I arrive in salt lake city. the plant manager before was a people person and that now days is very hard to find boss's that would motivate their employees with out any threats and the level of their position in the company. intimidation and threats isn't going to make employees work harder or to come in for work at all. Ever since I've been employed I have advance my career and work my way up from sorting/building pallets/forklift driver to yard truck/delivery driver to supervisor for TPM and senior supervisor for second shift.  Overall Propak is a good company but its the people who manage it, they are the ones who made the company image bad.

They hired in droves, 3-5 people at a time... MAYBE 1 of those 5 will stay long enough to still be working when they get their first check. The description of the job is a lie. You're throwing 60-80 pound pallets 10-12 hours a day, two 10 min breaks and a laughable 30 min lunch. You will never make more then 11.00 an hour and I can assure you that you will go home every day looking for another job. Management couldn't manage a bowl of cereal if you gave them the ingredients and put it in order for them. The supervisors are just pallet sorters that were stuck there till management had to promote them. The managers there have never thrown a pallet in their life let alone understand the intense labor they expect out of their employees. As a matter of fact not only do they have over the top expectations of insanely underpaid employee's, they have 'Mandatory Overtime' for the unfortunate shifts that are not on their favorites list. Don't get me wrong overtime is amazing but 50-60 hours a week every week at such an underpaid rate isn't worth it. I worked there for 2 years and the most I got out of it was Black Lung and regret for time lost. So if you like always felling tired, being unappreciated, coming home looking like a coal miner, and the pay of a diner dishwasher... Then apply, It's your dream job.

Propak logistics is a great company to work for if you are starting out in the supply chain field.  Working in logistics sales is fun and rewarding once you start landing new customers.  Propak is similar to other brokerage sales companies like CH Robinson, Coyote, Nolan, Echo, Etc except they are asset-based (you will learn to love that term once you start a logistics sales role).  Co-workers are great and always get along.  It is definitely a team environment even though you are trying to best the person you are sitting next to.  I would say the hardest part of the job is finding the trucks to match up to your available freight.  Propak is rapidly expanding their technology to help my prior statement.  The most enjoyable part of working at Propak is seeing the growth of the company in the short time I have been employed there and knowing that I played a part in the growth.  The company has outgrown our current office and will be moving to an entire floor at the L&C Tower in downtown Nashville.  Working in downtown Nashville is fun and is a major plus!  I would recommend friends and family to apply here.

As an Operation Manager for this company I felt like I was an hourly employee. One month after accepting the job the Plant Manager was terminated. Within 2 months they hired a new Plant manager which only lasted 1 month after that it took them nearly 4 months to find a replacement.

I was promised oportunities to learn everything about the business above and beyond my job title so that I would be better prepared to run a facility of my own. They put an hourly office clerk above me and she was definitely not the easiest person to work for. I am a firm believer in cross training and ensuring all employees and well trained in the jobs or tasks that they are assigned.

Upper management seemed to be clueless to the obvious issues that we were up against with the volume that was coming into this facility. I tried on many occassions to verse them, but they seemed to put there efforts in other areas of the business.

Safety was always the topic of any conversation; but when accidents would happen they would resolve the problem by trying to fire that particular individual that was injured on the job, insead of finding the root cause and trying to resolve the problem.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Worst place I’ve worked at try giving it a chance, but didn’t work at all. Don’t recommend this place to nobody. Management is horrible show favoritism towards other workers specially supervisors and if you get hurt or something like that, they don’t do nothing to help you.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The bad leadership in management if you report, a complaint management retaliates and the company really does nothing to fix the real issue

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They claim to be a family looking at everybody like if you’re a family member, saying that they worry about everybody if they get hurt, and even your family in the end, they simply look at you as a expendable asset, if you get hurt or step away for a couple days They try to fire you 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Very stressful, constantly pressuring you and trying to be discreet about telling you if you don’t hit numbers that you’re looking at disciplinary reactions

They don’t want you to do good. I’m busting tail, been there for a month and doing good. The more pallets you put out the more money you make. But here is the catch, you can’t do too good or they will tell you to slow down and they will FIND and CREATE a reason for you to have to redo your pallets. They don’t want to pay you that much money. CROOKED people and bad terrible management. They want you to come in and do 300 pallets BUT when u ACTUALLY DO IT, they get on to you and preach to you about quality and quantity. Then you slow down and put out perfect flawless pallets they want you to hurry up “so we can hit our number”. They tell you that you can make good money when you bust your tail then you come in and bust your tail then they try to SHAME YOU. Crooked crooks I’m looking for a new job. Terrible benefits NO PAID HOLIDAY OR HOLIDAYS OFF. Full of ex cons. I’m looking for a new job then I’m walking off when I find one. Forget propak I liked it at first then I started getting better and quicker and I’m apparently doing bad. Haha funny.

Typical day is loading and unloading freight and following all safety procedures while doing so.  I've learned multiple positions for the company and work hard to try to advance.  Every time a position come available I apply and every time I am basically told I'm not qualified yet the company offers no real training programs to help gain the experience needed.  Was told when I was hired on that the company did not believe in working overtime on weekends and offered advancement from within to those who worked hard and were interested.  Since they took over our contract with Nissan North America, almost every weekend has been mandatory to work and been rejected for every position I've applied for.  Co-workers are o.k. at best.  I've had several confrontations with a few employees that management just "over looked" instead of dealing with them.  This has led to a tense work environment and left me looking for other employment opportunities.  The most enjoyable part of the job is when I finally get to go home.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Laborer 72 salaries reported	$17.13 per hour
Forklift operator 80 salaries reported	$19.00 per hour
Local driver 75 salaries reported	$24.91 per hour
Warehouse worker 33 salaries reported	$21.68 per hour
Yard driver 38 salaries reported	$23.20 per hour

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