production worker

machine operator

blender

shift leader

quality assurance technician

Salm-Partners

I REALLY hope someone from management reads this.  

This is an alright place to work.   I work a minimum of 40hrs/week. We have MANDATORY overtime.  Recruiters WILL lie to you and say that we only work the occasional Saturday.... it's not occasional. It's every Saturday. For the rest of your life.

They NEVER cancel a shift for weather.  I get that we're in NE Wisconsin,  I'm not talking about 6 piddly inches of snow.  I'm talking foot and a half overnight? Roads covered in straight up ice? 25 below? Travel ban and state of emergency? You're scheduled.  Management would rather everyone risk actual death than simply shut the plant down for a day or two. 

The pay is alright.  If you're in the right department.  

Operations- bread and butter of the company.  Machine operators make BANK. It's nice. 

Everyone else is not getting paid enough.  

They will hire ANYONE. If you have a pulse and a working social security number,  welcome aboard!

Turnover is really high. Its because of the Saturdays. 

I like most of my coworkers. 
We're all in the same boat,  and I see these folks more than I see my actual family.  You will eventually make friends and get close to people.  

Management needs help,  but I've watched improvement happen over the years.  They're trying.  They're not *there* yet.

Many employees feel a real disconnect between production staff and corporate staff. These people all work 1st shift,  9-5, Monday thru Friday.  THEY get to see their families.  THEY don't have to be stuck in the building until sometimes as late as 11 PM on a Saturday night.

You're a cog in a machine.  Replaceable. 

Anyway. Keep your head down.  Don't take anything personally. Accept that you're not special and no one cares if you're not having a good time. Do this and you'll have a job forever. I choose this over unemployment. It's working out okay.

80% of the time it's easy boring work, the other 20% when things are not going as planned can/will be tough.

Starting is 12$/hr with 50cent shift premiums. Medical, life, dental insurance. Life insurance is free for the base 25k just for working here.
Attendance incentive of 4 hours of paid vacation time for every month with perfect attendance. Start you off with 5 days of unpaid vacation. Two emergency days for being sick/kids/life.
Mandatory Saturday overtime 60% of the year.
Offers a bus for employees and temps from the east side of green bay and back.

Salms has a huge problem keeping employees and it's hard to nail down just one reason why, among them and the biggest one in my mind  is HR and the office management need to let the floor management make decisions that will make things more efficient or modify or make exceptions to policy to keep good employees, there is no exceptions to any decree sent down from the office even if that means the production floor suffers losses. This happens non stop, and everyone suffers because of it. 

Salms is to soft even on there worst employees and that leaves the hard workers to suffer in the name of fairness. Basically if you have perfect attendance and keep your head down you'll be promoted and left alone no matter how terrible an employee you are. All in the name of being fair. Then the workers who should be put on a fast track get passed by, this has cost salms great employees more times than I can count.

Salms is a decent place to work but not somewhere I would recommend staying, work here till you find something better, they are always hiring line workers and have no issues with criminal background.

So I worked at both buildings on different lines, different shifts too. I'd say Woodrow was much better because rules were followed. The Supervisors made sure employees were trained properly and weren't doing things unsafe. Employees weren't taking long breaks or on cellphones. At the Hager plant, definitely the opposite. The Management did not care at Hager. I complained to HR about issues because Management didn't want to do anything about it. In doing so, Supervisor made our line more shorthanded. The Supervisor would staff the other line with twice as many people and sent the rest to Woodrow. I wouldn't recommend Hager plant, regardless of shift. If 1 shift leaves a mess, or tasks aren't done or machines not set-up correctly.... it will just make the next shift work harder and be more stress. Hager adding more lines, and can't even properly staff their current 2 lines. New lines have so many issues with machines that Maintenance can't even fix, because they weren't properly trained. Not worth the stress, especially when no one cares at this plant.

Starting pay is $12/hr with a $1 premium for 3rd shift, yearly raises that are based on performance averaging around 30cents.

Work environment is usually very fast paced but can also be very slow in some situations.  Major holidays including Memorial, 4th of July, Labor, Christmas, and New Years days are paid vacation time off, with no option to work.  Work weeks are 5-6 days depending on busy season.

Coworkers and management are friendly and easy to talk to.

Benefits include:
Health care coverage (as a single I pay $165 a month in health care company covers the rest.)
Dental insurance
Short term and long term disability insurance
Life insurance
Matching 401K plan
Free all you can eat hot dogs and buns on Wednesdays
$10 bulk boxes of product for employee purchase on Thursdays

Pay may not be good enough long term depending on your situation but starting out here would definitely open doors and give valuable experience towards jobs and opportunities later on.  Overall not a bad place to work!

The way to advancement at Salm Partners is kind of mirky without any type of criteria that can explain how to get considered or even interviewed for an available position of advancement. I have personally found on at least two different occasions where I could not interview for the available position- one instance where the company did not post the position as available at any time whatsoever during the process. On another occasion the person to fill the vacancy had been fully trained and filled in for the available role by the time a company-wide job posting was made available.

For situations where a new position was being created that had not previously existed, the company will not post the position available internally or externally at any point throughout the process. You just get a companywide announcement congratulating person X on their new role within the company and what that new role is going to be. It sort of makes you scratch your head and think.. how are these decisions made and what type of criteria is being used to make them.


This place is short-handed, Supervisors & Leads don't work. This no help in training new employees. The lines are not fairly distributed with Temps. Your have 1 line with 13 employees, while others have 5 with no help with breaks. Operators have it bad too, they sometimes lucky to get all 3 breaks. They don't make everyone wash, so you might need the only that washes. People walk off line and go wherever they want, leaving the line to struggle more. Supervisors & Leads are pretty much on break all shift. You can seen them in break room, or office just all hanging out, while your line is struggling to keep up or go on break. This place is ridiculous, and their HR doesn't help you with anything. Very hard to move up, or learn anything new once your hired on. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Shorthanded lines and lazy Supervisors and Leads. Forklift drivers are treated poorly as well as Operators. No rules enforced, so bad workers take way too long breaks, workers walking off lines. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Short handed and no help from the supervisor 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Poor, low morale due to shorthanded. Machines are unreliable and it’s alway a mess.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Clean up from the prior shift, struggle to get a break or bathroom break. Lines never stop, no matter if you have enough people on the production line or not. Supervisors just watch you struggle as the all sit in the office and chit chat.

Starts at the Top, and the Supervisors are lazy & don’t care. Your supposed to only get 15 minute breaks, yet people are taking 45 to an hour with no consequences. Not supposed to have your cell on you, yet a lot of people do and actually using it instead of working. Good employees are overwhelmed & overworked, making up for the ones that get away with no working. This place has cameras, yet no one is watching them or recording. I’ve even witnessed theft. You report things, and nothing gets done. Human Resources is a joke, as well as their line Supervisors. Stay away from this place if your a hard-working employee, because you can work somewhere else that appreciates you. 

This company promotes employees to positions but never posts these available positions company wide, which makes you feel like there is favoritism, that not everyone is given a fair and equal opportunity when working at Salm Partners. This almost brings up a legality question as to how a company can continually promote people from within without ever posting for the position as being available to begin with.

a typical day at work- total chaos, supervision is bad they cant retain good employees so the people in charge have no knowledge of what they are doing. Safety rules change day by day depending on who you are and you will never see safety management in the plant.Maintenance is the only thing that keeps this place running and they are treated poorly. The HR dept is overstaffed and basically useless.They have a great 401k with their  contributions you might be able to retire at about 125 yrs of age. After years of employment this place progressively keeps going down hill.      

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