machine operator

intern

maintenance technician

forklift operator

supply chain specialist

Schreiber Foods

Good job with great pay. Schreibers 401-K and profit sharing is nearly unmatched. Very competitive hourly pay with scheduled raises. They have a cafeteria with open vending, people are friendly and management and HR is very approachable and open-door. The work environment is positive for the most part and Schreiber Foods as a company regularly goes above and beyond to make sure their employees are taken care of, especially over the course of the pandemic. Paid breaks, paid time off, and typically set schedules with overtime available—however there will also be mandatory overtime, no exception. The Distribution Center typically has considerable overtime depending on the shift you work. In rare cases even double time can be available. If staff is down and its a busy time of year they can force up to 60 hours a week. Greater seniority allows for more control over what overtime you work, but overtime will still be there, usually at least 6 hours a week. Forklift operators in the plant operate typical sit-down forklifts, while forklift operators in the distribution center operate stand-up forklifts. They aren’t narrow-aisle reach trucks, but normal forklifts you stand on. They are not fun and a major source of complaint and turnover for the DC. The fatigue from standing all day or night on the lifts can become a hinderance very quick, and days off feel like time to let your body repair itself for another week of monotonous standing and bouncing around in the lift. A pro is being able to get off the lift and move around when you pick various orders for customers and physically move cheese from one pallet to another occasionally, however unloading, loading, and production pulling is spent standing. For the pay the job isn’t bad, however it should be noted that the possibility of your knees, hips, ankles and feet getting sore and aching constantly is high, and possibly your back and neck as well. It will definitely feel not worth the pay at times, and if you have concerns about that the DC is not a good place to work. Nevertheless, it’s rare to work with someone that hates their job or is not happy with the pay, and overall it is a great company with opportunities for growth and expansion even during unsure economic times. I would recommend the job and company to family and friends. 

I spent my first three months being "trained" as a caser operator. 90 percent of the time I got sent to other areas or stuck on one spot where I learned almost nothing about the job I would be doing once I went full time. I was on my way out the door for another job when I lucked out and got placed in Quality assurance. Management on the QA side was much better than production. And I received superb training. I'm also lucky enough to work at one of the few plants that do 12 hour shifts. My typical work week allows me 4 days off. My typical day is fairly simple. I go in and test raw and finished samples. I love what I do and I feel like I can make a real difference where I am. I get a long with all my co-workers. The hardest part of my job would be weekend sanitation. This is something that all new hires will have to deal with. My first two months on sanitation were some of the worst nights of my life. I had to clean all the pipes in the plant and I was often there for 15 to 16 hours with few breaks. If you don't like breaking a sweat or dealing with dangerous industrial chemicals you will not survive sanitation. I lucked out and got moved to one of the easiest sanitation jobs and I am often done anywhere from 5-10 hours. Most people at my plant will have to do sanitation anywhere from 3-6 years before they can get on days. There is also all kinds of overtime available at my plant. you can sign up for as much as you want and will probably get it. especially for production workers. QA overtime is a little more sparse but I've still managed to get quite a bit. There is also a limitation on how much you can get drafted for overtime. Usually only one day then it goes to the next person. Last, but certainly not least is the pay and benefits. The pay is fantastic. and the benefits are unmatched for where I live. ESOP, 401k, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, life insurance. Schreiber also matches up to 6 percent of what you put into your 401k with shares of stock. Schreiber will also reimburse you for college tuition for a couple different degrees. This was the main reason I looked for work here as I am currently a junior in college and don't want to take out anymore loans. They reimburse for Chemical engineering, Business, and even MBA. If you have a degree, the sky is the limit in this company.

New HR manager is horrible with  bad attitude. Only introduced to me once and only spoke with her maybe 1 or 2 times and both times were with just a chip on her shoulder, maybe because I wasn't white, not sure. Gave me a nasty attitude and I returned it to her. 

Training does not exist, you better be prepared to train yourself by making mistakes and learning from them. You will train on 1st shift most likely with the angriest, crankiest, most entitled, angry and bipolar people in the plant (high seniority). You will feel unwanted right off the bat, nasty looks and people not willing to help you at all!

Once you are trained you will go to 2nd or 3rd most likely. DO NOT WORK 3RD. The leader and supervisor are awesome and so are the workers on that shift but it  is not worth the stress of having to come in to your shift and deal with 2nd  shifts messes and sloppy hand offs. You will be working the second you clock in to clean up left over messes which will be daily. Working and being pressured to have 1st shift set up perfectly before they come in, sometimes with no breaks at all. Just so when 1st shift arrives they give you a nasty attitude and try to find or complain about one minor issue. Even when its perfect it won't be enough! You will still be a loser in their mind which you shouldn't care about. These people have made young woman cry from how nasty they are. Do not work 1st. You will have to deal with these trolls every day. 

2nd shift is the best shift to work for since there are no real expectations, not much going on besides a few change overs and just expect 3rd shift to pick up after them.

All around you can make great money but not worth the stress and 3rd shift is full of great people including leadership but it's totally drowned out by all the negativity surrounding this plant. The way it goes is 3rd shift works the hardest but it goes unseen because only the (Great workers) are on 1st since they have been there for 10+ years or 20+ years.

I would not recommend unless you wanna feel like drop kicking someone everyday. Better jobs are around don't settle for this experience.

A typical day at work varied, depending on our management. The best days of the company were very structural, it seemed as if we were advancing with strong steps. Everything worked uniformly. This was mainly to the group work between the plant manager, our maintenance manager, and the production management. We did our job to the line thanks to the strict command of our maintenance manager. 

I learned how companies survive and how such collapse. 
I remember the quarterly meetings we had where we would get bonuses depending on the plant throughput goals and the overall company performance. The plant manager and a few other managers, mainly the maintenance manager, would make performance announcements and of course talk about improvement possibilities. 
Whenever I first started, the manager that I believe was the best during those four years, was just starting. He hired me and changed the way new maintenance employees were hired. He structured our department (maintenance) in a more performance oriented way. We were using a program online where work orders were placed so that we could view them and work throughout the day. We had to complete certain hours, we had to perform better and not just be mediocre maintenance men. This was challenging to me but at the same time I enjoyed very much. I was never sitting for more than 20 minutes at a time and also we were seen by the rest of the plant with better eyes, Since most people thought that we had it made. 

The hardest part of the job was looking at my coworkers and seeing how they were becoming mediocre. If our manager was not strict, or controlling like the one above, they started being laid back and forgetting about what it is to be a better maintenance worker. 

I believe that everyday was enjoyable, most of the people were friendly and suggested friendship. The working environment was clean all the time and we the people were all united.

The turnover rate for this company is disgraceful. They have a few people in management that were Grandfathered in for positions after Dean foods sold out. These specific people don't care if the company keeps failing as long as they have jobs, and they have had them for way too long. The Company keeps losing money partly because of this. There are people related to management that treat new hires horribly, but nothing is ever done about it. You can't even go to HR because HR has to report to the Management that is a problem in the first place. There isn't any confidentiality in HR. This company has no concerns for employees unless you are related to a higher up. They also have no concerns for any OSHA laws as safety issues are violated there on a daily basis. Even Temps that come in are put on machines that they have had no experience to run whatsoever. I saw temps put on machines after their 2nd week of working there, due to a shortage of help. They would get 5 minutes of training to run a major machine. People get hurt a lot but are afraid to report it because it goes against the safety bonus, or they can get fired. Myself and many others were also put on various machines that we were never trained to run properly or safely, not even shown the stop buttons. This is the worst place I have ever worked in my many years and I just hope they improve a lot because they have a long way to go. I also hope that anyone who is a hard and dedicated worker goes elsewhere because this place doesn't deserve you. If you work too hard you will face the wrath of some 1st shift relatives of management. If your numbers are too good it's the same. If you do well, you are screwed. If you don't do well they will keep you longer and keep you as general labor until they get another hire. I saw that happen to several people also. It's a no win situation unless you only work here for a short time on your way to find a decent job. Peace.

Pros: Great pay, Decent benefits, a lot of opportunity for overtime, temperature controlled environment, opportunity to advance to corporate with a degree, great employee retention/tenure rate

Cons: You have no life outside of work. You start at the bottom of the totem pole and must work you way up in seniority, when the average tenure is 30years. You almost certainly will only be able to work third shift, maybe rarely 2nd shift and it will take you years to get a 1st shift job. Corporate management is decent, however your direct leaders are not the best and tend to micromanage your job. The work is very mundane. It's the same exact thing over and over. They have very strict rules, which a small infraction could cost you your job, no exceptions.

UNION ENVIRONMENT!!! You job is safe, however you are limited in moving to other position and must bid on them based on your seniority. In my experience the union protected the employees with a lot of tenure, however the newer employees didn't get that much help when they had problems. 

The hardest part of the job is, the company expects you to put your job first and your family second. This means, you must be flexible with your schedule (be forced to work a double or forced to come in 4 hours early or 4 hours late. Depending on your job, my might regularly work 7 days a week.)  The second worst part of the job is the weekly cleanup. You get wet, get chemicals on you, and experience a flux in temperatures("nipply" to "furnance-like") 

It's a good job for a young person, with no children, who is able to put in the work and build their seniority. I would not suggest the warehouse jobs for anyone over 40, anyone with children, anyone who is unwilling to wait 4+ years to be able to get a 1st shift position.

4-12 hour work days, last I heard it changed to 10 hours. Weekends always off as a production employee, maintenance and sanitation often work weekends. Overtime available to work weekends.

Everything is based off of seniority and they’re a union. Skills do not matter even if your levels above the pay grade, the person working there the longest will always get the first bite of the cookie. Good luck trying to advance with Schreiber Foods. You might get a $20 card to go f yourself at the parking lot of Kwip Trip or some pizza, maybe nachos on a good week.

They have a nurse that works in the morning so if you work third shift you’re not gonna get evaluated, unless you come later in the afternoon which is out of your way just to go home and go right back to work in 2-3 hours.

Speaking of that everyone that starts have to work third shift and with the amount of people wanting to go to day shift, good luck with that because the supervisor does not want you to leave and you’re the lesser of the pack and you’re not going anywhere and you’re stuck there for an additional .50 to do all the hard work and cleaning while day shift enjoys everything.

The equipment there are old so they’re constantly breaking and you’re spending 30 minutes to an entire day trying to fix the problem while maintenance sits there and blames you for breaking it when it has nothing to do with that. Maintenance at Schreiber are not productive at all especially if you work downstairs you rarely ever see them.

Then you have supervisors that like to micromanage everything when you know more than them. That is a big turn off.

Friendly environment, poor management skills. Helps pay bill but you have to sell your soul to keep working there.

I normally don't say anything bad about any of my previous employers but this one takes the cake.  From the very get go when I couldn't get into the place which was locked up tighter than Fort Knox for my aptitude test, and behavioral test.  While I waited outside the door, I I noticed that workers in their vehicles literally smoking meth in the parking lot in the daytime in front of me.   When I made it through the first set of locked doors on a call phone that didn't work, a second set of doors was locked, key card entry only.  The recruiting hallway was filthy.  The offices were filthy.  The people were filthy.  This was a red flag.  
I went through the series of interviews and it took a few weeks but I didn't have any other job offers so I took this one.  Everytime I have pulled in the parking lot, people are doing drugs.  Make you wonder how any of them pass a drug test.  I lasted 3 months and I was done.  No matter what education you have you start at the very bottom, overnights, long shifts, 7 days a week.  No choice.  If you are low man on totem pole, it's all on you buddy.  I swear I worked 2 months straight w no time off.  
Pay is decent, but not worth your mental health.  I have worked in oilfield and also a volunteer firefighter for 20 years, so I have pulled 12-36hour shifts and made it through tired but fine, but the way this company handles their schedules and forced overtime is awful.  Your individuality/degree doesn't exist at this place, you are only a number and doesn't matter how hard you work, seniority is the only thing that gets you anywhere in this place if you can last that long.  You get hollered at and wrote up for pointing out something that needs fixed or any opinion that you might have on an issues. 

Future applicants, stay far far away from this place, it's just not worth it.  Apply anywhere else but here.

HR always sides with the company. Management is hired straight out of college and they transfer to other plants or quit the company frequently. Very low morale among the general workers. You don’t truly get vacation, all the days you have off you end up working for others who are off. Hourly pay is solid, but you have little opportunity to enjoy what it provides for you. It’s worth taking a lesser paying job elsewhere and having a better work/family life. Managers will wait at the time clock as your waiting to clock out and draft you for another 4 hours without warning or a way to let your family know you have to stay late. Break policy is 2-20 minute breaks per 8 hour shift, 3-20 minute breaks per 12 hour shift. They hire felons, so you may be working with people who have a history of all types of heinous crimes. My plant promoted a partner to a leadership position who had a drug problem and committed identity theft while working there. Truly a low morale organization with a large propaganda machine always trying to convince you how great they are. A member of maintenance at my plant was convicted of unspeakable crimes against a child who was his own family member previous to being hired. So forget feeling like you can bring your family around.

Working at West has been a mixed experience. On the positive side, the company offers an attractive employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) and an 8% retirement matching program. These benefits stand out, though it's important to note that you need to remain with the company for five years to be fully vested in these programs.

However, there are significant challenges that overshadow these perks. The management team is outdated in their communication methods, despite having training from their corporate office. This disconnect leads to a dramatic and disorganized work environment where no one seems to be on the same page.

West's leadership seems to prioritize the company's interests over its employees. If you're dealing with personal issues, whether related to coworkers or outside of work, management offers little support or flexibility. This lack of empathy extends to their absence policy. Even with valid doctor's documentation, absences still count against a strict percentage system, which feels punitive and unaccommodating.

While the ESOP and retirement matching are great long-term incentives, the company's lack of effective leadership and employee support makes it hard to recommend West as a workplace. There’s a lot of potential, but until management improves its approach to communication and employee well-being, the negatives will continue to weigh heavily.

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