Sealed Air Cryovac

A typical day in Sealed Air Customer Service is never predictable.
If you are a self starter and motivated individual, if you like being part of a team environment and if you enjoy challenges that are not "typical" , this is for you. There is the repetitiveness of daily reports and metrics to meet, but there is also a huge arena for one to be able to display and employ skillsets such as critical thinking, analyzing data to see trends, partnering with your sales rep to manage the accounts in your charge. I found my true niche in this job, in building relationships with customers and becoming a business partner to both the customer and my sales reps.

The most difficult part of this job is to process and remember the vast amount of information that is thrown at you, as well as, learning the processes and contacts for getting orders thru manufacturing, traffic, pricing , Boms and Routes, etc. 
I enjoyed the challenges, the empowerment given to us in our areas of responsibility, the relationships and the opportunity to grow.

Don’t be fooled by the job postings and descriptions, this is an ACCOUNT MANAGER role but the company codes it as a CUSTOMER SERVICE role to justify the lower than average pay.  

Communication and trust amongst upper management is abysmal. 
“Bad management loses good employees, Good management loses bad employees”, has never been more true, as the company has driven away amazing talent. 

Sealed Air has really missed the post pandemic mark as other companies prospered in adapting to a happier, flexible working remote culture. Sealed Air then wonders why reliable and driven employees are hard to find. Get with the times Sealed Air and hire from a national pool of great candidates. 

Your job is always in jeopardy of being eliminated with little to no warning, as this has happened quite a bit lately. 

Stress, feeling overworked, and defeated sometimes happens in the workplace, but Sealed Air leadership rarely recognizes or works to rectify these distress signals. 




Excellent company to work for.  The sky is the limit for advancement opportunities within the company.  If you are willing to learn and work for it, they will absolutely work with you to achieve your goals.  Great way of handling overtime within the company, takes volunteers first, then is mandatory for workers with lowest hours in, so if you volunteer when you can, you aren't forced to work when you don't want to/can't.  Extremely fair pay for work.  The hardest part of the job would be either the heat conditions in the summer, or the weight of certain trays (which aren't made often).  The most enjoyable parts were the people you work with were generally very upstanding, upbeat people, or the quick pace and different types of trays you work with every day so it is repetitive but not in a bad way.  10/10 would recommend working with this company, and would gladly work there again myself.

Pretty typical factory/production work but after going through several changes in management and front office personnel, the only thing they care about now is the numbers. 
There was a time where if we hit a goal or milestone as a facility, we would be given a party or a giveaway of some kind. A simple incentive to keep doing great work. all of that is gone for good and they treat you like your lucky to have a job. If you do great now you are rewarded with more work. 
The pay is very good for the area, especially considering they don't require a degree. however, the overtime you are expected to work will make it almost not worth it. Hard to have a life outside of 12hr shifts plus mandatory overtime every week. 
No job in the facility is hard to learn but they all require physical labor of some mind. Mainly a lot of standing and lifting/ moving for long periods.
 If you can make that work for you I would say, get the money but don't expect to make it a career.



They used to give you freedom and work with you on your schedule. We also use to do more employee get togethers such as a Christmas party and potlucks. New management came in and slowly but surely took all freedoms away and began treating employees like children who need to be constantly supervised. People who’s entire career was spent here started dropping like flies. You would get a write up for being 30 seconds late even though that late time was from walking from the parking lot to the clock in in the middle of the plant (not by the door like everywhere else). Any type of of disagreement with management was considered insubordination. Joke of raises and forcing of using sick time. The employees working there however are a fantastic group of people who you’ll come to know like family. 

The company was a great place to work at, several years ago. Since then, they've hired relatively young management with very limited experience. Regular labor-employees use to feel appreciated for what they do 42+ hours a week. Now, we are watched, constantly and are usually told how to do our jobs, even though we usually lead North America in every positive category, in regards to sales, quality, ship dates, etc. Current middle to top management want to make a splash in the corporate pool, so to speak, by running us into the ground so their numbers look terrific. They wonder why most of the older employees are coming down with life altering injuries/illnesses. The pay is fine, for the area, but if you can, look elsewhere for employment.

An average day would consist of hourly quality inspections of plastics. Which hand mic readings, microscope examinations, visually checking material width and watching out for defects. Correcting imperfections and byproducts. Also making adjustments on rpms, temps, roller speeds and radiation dosage adjustments. The management was sub par only because my boss had never run a line so he was learning on the job. The atmosphere among coworkers were great. We all worked as a team. It was a challenging fast paced environment. Had to make split second decisions. Thats what I enjoyed about this job never got boring.

In 2023, SEE is still offering $14 an hour for entry level positions!! You have temporary services that are hiring for them that pay more than them, so if you take a temp job and later get hired on full time you have to take a pay cut, nobody will stay for the entry level positions because you are overworked but under qualified to take a higher paying position, so unless you are offered an expert position I would definitely not accept it! You have to work overtime a lot just to keep up with today’s economy and the management still lives their best lives, oh yeah and don’t get hurt on the job because you’re exhausted from being overworked, that’s automatic termination unfortunately….so yeah good luck working at Sealed Air!

Training is great at first, you're in the classroom and the instructors are great. Then comes the on the floor training and depending on who your trainer is, they are very hateful and condescending and act like you owe them something. The trainer would point at stuff and give me a messed up look like I was dumb and should have already known what I was supposed to do. I became very disenchanted and feel like I was set up to fail because of who my trainer was. I'm glad that I got a job offer elsewhere or if not I would have had to continue to endure this hateful and rude behavior. 

Hired on as a machine operator assistant. Quickly advanced to the position of operator. Met weekly quotas. Was given the opportunity to be on the safety board, and there performed daily inspections and observations of plant and personnel safety issues. 
Worked a lot of over time. Hardest part of job was being moved from machine to machine; which meant, some days quota was not met was you like. 
Benefits were excellent. Company also worked with me on FMLA when my daughter who was serving in Afghanistan was killed. 
Most enjoyable was there was little stress.

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