maintenance technician

production associate

production operator

extrusion operator

electrical technician

SPARTECH

There employment add says 15.00 per hour you get hired and its 14.00 per hour, they tell you 120 hours paid time off pro rated from your start date and its not, its over 6 months before you are even eligible for PTO days. Insurance is crazy high for a single person 63.00 a week out of your check. They also tell you 5 days of orientation it wasn't 3 hours of a so-called orientation then shoved on the floor to a job that no one really trains you to do. Poor training they throw you on a job that is insane crazy fast paced boss never even speaks to you just says follow me. takes you to a job walks away and is never seen again. Apparently safety is not there priority asked coworker for gloves and he said you will have to talk to the supervisor I didn't even know where to find a supervisor, Never got any Meanwhile the people on the line are so busy trying to keep up with the machine and what its producing that they don't have the time to explain or really care to explain what needs to be done and what to look for. My experience at this job was that you are expected to work like a machine and not stop very hard to keep up this insane pace for 12 hours I was totally beyond exhausted after 12 hours. This job is HORRIBLE!!!!

Atypical day at work started out with communicating with the supervisor off going shift. Proceed down to the production floor and talk to the people on my shift and pass on any info they might need. Go from machine to machine and insure every thing was available and ready for them to complete their work for the day. Do a safety walk around the plant, check with maintenance department  to find out if there were any issues that needed to be delt with on shift. At end of the shift prepare shift report and communicate with on coming supervisor.                                                                                                You were always learning new thing every day plastics is a very fluid and changing product and never seams to run exactly the same way .                                                                                                          My co worker were all every talented people each with their own special talents.
  Least favorite part of the job was having to release people from employment with the company.
  Favorite part of the job was promoting people or having some people retire after years of service with the company.

I was hired as a Shipping/Receiving Clerk. On my second day, my supervisor told me I was "Nothing more than a warehouse associate", even though when being interviewed, I was told they were creating a position specifically for me. This position was "guaranteed" for at least 45 days. On day 15, they moved me to production. I tried getting a hold of HR and was never gotten back to. I finally caught HR in their office (This is who interviewed me and hired me). Upon explaining to them what happened, I was told "Yeah, I never told you it was for 45 days, and I never said anything about a shipping receiving clerk. We don't even have one of those." (My Job specific training form specifically said shipping receiving clerk.) And be prepared to be treated like a pest that will not go away when you ask what you can do to help. Overall a terrible employer.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Worse company that exists. There was an employee that tried to tell (warn) people they are shutting the place down they fired him for doing so then came to do damage control and lied to everyone that was not true. Well 5 months later they shut the plant down the day they said they are closing the place. They infact strung everyone along and lied until it happened. Very wrong on all levels. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Nothing to stressful about the job.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Depends on the people you work with and the managers.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Easy overall nothing to complain about other than the machines needed a lot of attention.

Worked in Monongahela PA when the global economy took a giant down-turn.  Spartech shut a number of plants and our facility downsized as well.  We had great equipment, well maintained, screw extrusion (twin and single) with powder and liquid feeds, lamination lines for roofing compounds and incorporation of polyester scrim.  Excellent laboratory with TGA, DSC, Dielectric Characterization, Color (Beckman), Ash, Gloss, SAP data base with integral on-line process data, full pilot laboratory with extrusion, sheet and film lines, two banburys, hot presses and most impressive was an FTIR microscope for analysis.  Great management and personnel.

You will be sweeping 90% of the time you’re employed here. Management doesn’t make sure new hires are properly trained. They show favoritism to certain people also they will have someone else with a different job role getting trained on your current position while you’re standing right in front of them completely disrespectful. Most times you’ll be sent home due to them not having materials for the machines to run. The turnover rate is pretty high because they stick new hires with people and they never get trained so they quit. The sad part about this is most people get their valued time wasted by a company that says all good things about the company during orientation but once you start you’ll get a rude awakening. You’ve been WARNED 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Pay was decent in skilled trades for the area. Still not what it should have been but could make a decent pay check due to overtime. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Trying to keep up while understaffed with work load and keeping the plant running. As well as nepotism from management. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Low morale/high turn over rate. Culture is family and friends of management get treated better, pertaining to better schedules, higher wages, and less work load and no overtime. Than people with higher skill sets and seniority. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
12 to 16 hours of repairing machinery. Limited breaks and sometimes no lunch.

Doing the job of more than one person seems to be the norm at this company, showing that it has no vision other than profit. I was constantly belittled by management over the smallest mistakes that I could not be trained out of making. Management offers little to no support as all my training was done by the only other team member handling this function. Just do yourself and your mental health a favor and don't work here; keep the constant pressure and stress on those who have decided to stay and not leave. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The union workers who work on the floor.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with the front office workers who put profit/production over safety. Someone is going to die there one of these days.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Working with the floor workers is awesome. The culture that the front office puts out is toxic at best.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Ridiculous. Some days you're forced to stay over or cover vacation which messes you up more than working your 12 days on, 2 days off schedule.

Within 6 months I was one of the highest seniority assistant's on my shift do to the sheer number of people coming and going. I lost 60lbs in 4 months just do to how hard the work was and constantly found myself being worked to near death just because I could handle it for the most part. I was lied to several times while working there and my breaking point was them hiring someone for an upgraded position I was trying to get who had less experience then me in every way but telling me I still needed to earn it and then telling me to train the person who they hired for the position I wanted.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Maintenance technician 15 salaries reported	$30.29 per hour
Production associate 11 salaries reported	$18.62 per hour
Production operator 6 salaries reported	$22.33 per hour
Extrusion operator 7 salaries reported	$20.29 per hour
Electrical technician 1 salary reported	$30.00 per hour

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