production assembler

production worker

industrial mechanic

production supervisor

forklift operator

SOUTHWARK METAL MFG. CO.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part of this company is the underlying interest in being a 2ND CHANCE company.  Regardless of your record, as long as you show up everyday, show up on time, do your job well, behave, keep to yourself and not get wrapped up in controversy, you will have a paycheck to pay the bills.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
If you have a thick skin, can put up with many types of personalities in a close environment, you can survive each shift.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Manufacturing of steel sheet metal into various parts of air conditioning / heating duct work.  Machines in constant motion.  Safety is a constant concern, concentration of the job is a must.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
On the production floor, a typical production line of producing product, boxing for shipment, palletizing.
On the shipping floor, pulling boxes, palletizing, staging pallets for loading into trailers.

Southwark is not a terrible place to work. The work is fast paced but once you get the hang of it, it is not difficult. Management sometimes displays poor management skills. They are partial towards their favorites and do not treat everyone fairly, nor do they have the same standards for everybody. There is no AC for the workers (with the exception of the office staff) so in the summer it gets brutally hot. They say they will give you popsicles to help with that but they don’t. They use a points system which is not very forgiving, but perhaps understandable because workers come and go often and are not always reliable. There is often a lot of drama between coworkers and management is not very effective in handling that. Some people are able to move up in the company, and others are overlooked and stuck at the bottom. They pay is low for the type of work required, and there are often mandatory overtime shifts.

This place is a joke. Management it horrible. If you come to them with a problem with the parts, they'll tell you to send them anyway. Then when the customers complain, management takes ZERO responsibility for their actions and blames it on the employees. Its always someone else's fault, never theirs. Management is ignorant, don't train people properly, and then get upset when they have to show them how to do something.  Also they get upset when we don't reach our production goals, even though they have faulty equipment that they refuse to repair or replace.  They always slap a bandaid on it and yell at employees for lack of production. Management also talks a lot of smack behind peoples backs. Overall, really awful place to work. Benefits were decent, but the amount of BS and hardly any pay is the reason you do NOT want to work here. Honestly, it's just not worth it. Do yourself a favor and wait for something better to come along. It's not worth the headache. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The people were nice, working as a team, sometimes.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The overtime, and the conditions caused a lot of people to quit. Leading to more overtime.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The people I worked with were nice. The overtime was unending, a lot of new hires would quit. I would help train new ones, and they quit eventually too. The culture was mostly to work as a team and help each other out, which made being on good terms with your coworkers vital.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Making the most out of the day as I could. Short time as a lead/mentor, didn't have help on the night shift. Mostly spent it training new hires, then helping the rest of the department know what to do. Then going back to work with the new employees.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Easy work especially if you catch on to the overall job responsibilities. Overtime availability,and decent pay for the work you are required to do.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
High turnover of employees. Problematic management, even leadworkers may be the reason this is happening.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Seemed unfriendly in my opinion. The companies opinion always trump's your opinion. Unwilling to see there are different and more efficient ways to do the job.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Somedays do work that requires the entire team to work on numerous projects during the shift, other days need to work individually on numerous and different styles of projects during the shift. Never a boring workday.

Check my saw and make sure it was ready to go, go and get all my metal for my first order, and trace my patterns out. I learned what it takes to work in an environment with close quarters that you have to keep an extra sense of awareness at all times not just on what your working on but what is all around you constantly because there is people every where at all times. The management was great they were real nice they treated everybody the same we were like a big family, the people I worked with were great easy to get along with, I think the hardest part of t;he job was maybe the standing in one spot for 12 hours, the most enjoyable part of the job was the people I worked with a they made it fun.

Production demands excessive & sporadic Rules made up to fit situations Favoritism to some employees Lack of Respect for others & their position within the scope of company It’s a pass the buck mentality from management to its skilled employees but no pay increases for the dedicated extra mile ones Feels like your being guarded by the supervisors & even stalked Mass punishment towards employees for the actions of the same groups of  People Dress code needs to be enforced !!! And better air quality considering that is The Buisness their in. Could be a great long term job with a few positive changes made & pay tops the list for skilled employees!

I’ve worked here and all I can say it’s not a good work environment they don’t want to teach their employees they want production the see everyone as robots or numbers they see them as easily replaceable they don’t want people they want robots that don’t ask questions that don’t say this job feels unsafe the machines break down everyday first and second shift and they have no maintenance on second shift so first shift maintenance has to fix the second shift problems they demand everything works they don’t care if the employees have a problem with any machine they say keep running the machine until it’s fully broken and it’s all bc the machines don’t get cleaned 

This is a second chance company. Should you have a background/criminal record, this is NOT an issue. Supervisors and managers look for performance. With that, quotas are met daily, both in production departments and in Shipping & Receiving. Depending on what department you're assigned to, depends on how stressful the assigned tasks can be as you are working with machinery that may result in injury, even death. Management only concerns itself when needed to, for the most part, it's up to you to be safe and be situational aware.

A typical work day consists of putting on your PPE, and getting orders ready to start your day. I've learned how to put metal pieces together to make a product that other companies need for their business.

The hardest part of the job was reaching the quota when they are understaffed, and doing some tasks alone would be nearly impossible to complete. 

The most enjoyable part of the job is coming into the warehouse seeing the smiling faces of some co-workers, no matter what kind of day you're having they will make sure you smile when you start.

Most of the co-workers were a joy to work with, a big percentage are Hispanic, i slowly learned Spanish from time to time.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production assembler 1 salary reported	$16.25 per hour
Production worker 5 salaries reported	$16.40 per hour
Industrial mechanic 1 salary reported	$28.00 per hour
Production supervisor 2 salaries reported	$67,500 per year
Forklift operator 1 salary reported	$21.00 per hour

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