packer

maintenance technician

forklift operator

machine operator

quality assurance technician

Silgan Plastics

What is the best part of working at the company?
There Was Nothing Good About Working At This Company.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The Job The Atmosphere The Supervisors,Management, Or Front Office My Time There I Seen No Promotions No Employees Who Were Happy To Work There No Employee Perks,Or Incentives,12 Hours Shift An You Could Not Leave The Building An I Don't Smoke But Some Did An Had To Go 12 or More Hours Without One Breaks Were Sparatic If U Got One No Encouragement What So Ever Overpriced Food In Breakroom An You Could Not Leave The Building To Go To Lunch Or On Your Breaks No Proper Training  No Advancement Within Company Workers Under Paid One Reason I Did Not Stay An Shift Supervisor Told Me Not To Stay I Had To Much Potential For That Company An They Would Never Advance Me Any An Never Pay What I Was Worth As A Employee Of My Caliber Or See Or Recognize My Potential.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Long Drawn Out Shifts Ant Farm Atmosphere Bad Supervisors An Leads No Front Office Help Definitely On Night Shift Overworked  Under Paid Workers With No Real Love For The Job Or Company An It Showed Thru All Workers An Even Some Supervisors An Leads An Front Office Showed No Care For Workers An There Happiness On The Job An In Some Area Saftey Also Another Reason I Did Not Stay.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come In Clock In Work Your 12+ An Go Home. An Try An Stay Focused An Not Be Angry Or Sad The Entire Shift An Hope U Can Get Your Brakes In Or Take A RestRoom Break When Needed.

Silgan is a large company with diverse accounts and products, some of which receive far more attention than others. 

This particular plant environment is very friendly and generally enjoyable. We have fair managers and easy going coworkers. Success and achievements are usually rewarded with free lunches or email notifications from corporate. We are offered decent health plans that inspire preventive care; assistance with gym fees, annual health challenges/contests with prizes, nutrition assistance, blood screenings.

The hardest part of the job can be dealing with customer expectations. Most of the time our standard timeline for production is acceptable and allows ample time for review. Certain customers are allowed by the sales team to dictate their own production timelines and processes. This tends to cause oversight due to lack of review time and creates mistakes in production; later to become a complaint by the customer. Maintaining a more standard practice, regardless of customer, would help immensely.

The most enjoyable part of the job is the ability to coordinate and meet with anyone within the plant. This allows for easy, clear, communication among the different teams in addition to a good level of friendship across the plant.

I was an hired as an inspector.  They should call the position Packer/machine operater/shipping.  You do everything to keep the bottles moving. They train for 2 weeks and put you on your own. I didn't train on half of the lines but was expected to be able to keep up.  No one is there to help.  They need team leaders or floaters to help. You are expected to inspect bottles, keep the line clear of jams,  grind bad bottles, make shipping containers and then strap it all together for shipping.   If you have an issue the line doesn't stop. You have to rely on the person next to you to help out. They have their own line to keep running do it is minimal.  The operators are running 3 to 4 machines so they can not help.  They place difficult lines next to the easier lines knowing one person can't keep up on the difficult line and the person from the easier line will try and help.  They have several lines that should be 2 person.  You switch lines once a day. You go home totally exhausted and stressed out.  They work 2-2-3 schedule do it is very difficult to get time off on a weekend if you need it.  The machines constantly jam or have issues and the maintenance guys are no where to be found. The employees on each team work well together and try and help each other out. Managers and supervisors don't seem to care if you are having issues.  I would not recommend working here.  

What is the best part of working at the company?
Supervisors are rude, some of the people there have really bad attitudes and are hard to work with.  HR is good though and so are upper management.  The problem starts with supervisors and on down.  The factory is clean.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The supervisors, lineleads and co-workers.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The are all about veterans which is a good thing, factory is clean, but there is a lot of hostility with supervisors and employees.  I have never worked somewhere where people are as rude as they are.   Especially the supervisors and their family members which are a lot of the employees.  

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
It's a guessing game if you are going to walk into a good situation or not as far as your line goes.   Most of the time you have to set yourself up with box making and other things you need while the line is still running which is hard to keep up with.  A lot of issues with the lines and most of the time it's hard to get them to fix the line so you continuously have problems all day long.  There was really only 2 operators that fixed the line right and I was always praying I got their lines.

The money is really good won't lie about that. The work isn't to terribly hard but things have gotten worse there. The new supervisor on C shift Name starts with E. is not a good sup. at all. She doesn't care about her packers. If your not management, maintenance, some mach. operators or on the short list of people she likes then your just SOL don't expect any kind of niceness from her. A shift and B shift are the only two shifts out there at are worth being on as of right now. D shift is about the same as C shift. I know that its a business that only cares about the money it brings in but its the people that run that business that makes it good to work for or not worth working at. 

If you have a family be prepared to not see them much because you'll be working 12hr shifts 7 to 7 and will be getting drafted a lot of the days that your suppose to be off. To come in to work the full 12hrs. The reason for the drafting? They can't keep workers because of how they treat there packers. I for one am one of those people that have come to the point of deciding to leave. I've worked there for 7 years but with this new sup. I'm not willing to stay there much longer if I find something new I am out in a flash. Peace Out.

Winfield Kansas...
My manager treats me as if I am in the middle of a long list of mediocre employees. 
 I work beyond what is reasonable along with others and I’ve seen so many people, good people leave because the situation is impossible. 
I’m given a ridiculous list of expectations that we both know are unachievable and meaningless given the wheel spinning priority list that changes by the week.
I’m routinely called at night, weekends, and on vacation with plant problems. 
I’ve lost benefits, vacation, etc. 
My equipment runs poorly. 
The hours are long, and if you do a good job, you are asked to do more. 
I never say a word for fear of retaliation, I’ve seen people mysteriously be fired who are really good but who have stood up for what is right....and they are gone.
The company has eliminated so many internal positions over the years they’ve forced us to basically do everything without any outside help .....there is no where else to cut, there are few of us left to manage everything even when we don’t have the experience or knowledge.....it became impossible quite a while ago, everyone knows it, but no one cares...., push harder, take a harder line, more discipline, more turnover, more turnover.

Silgan is the worst Company I ever had the misfortune to work at but I needed a job. I was 1 of 2  2nd shift Inspectors (only 15 employees compared to 40+ on 1st shift).  No AC, around 85° inside (wearing mask due to Covid made it feel even hotter). Chaos every night. Supervisor can never be found. I was not informed during my interview that my job consisted way way more than being an inspector. I had at least 5 lines, each having boxes of bottles coming down to be inspected. I had to tape them closed myself and put them on another conveyor to the warehouse. I'd have to cover the hand packers breaks & lunches then clear my lines before I could take my own (which was at least an hour later), then we 2 inspectors would cover each others lines (sometimes up to 9 of them) during each others lunches so they didn't back up in the machines Their expectations were unrealistic. Management & supervisors didn't care about anything you'd say or suggest.. No open door policy. I put up with a lot more than management knows of. 
 I DO NOT/WOULD NOT reccomend this company to anyone, even if they're desperate. 

The job would be okay if the pay was better here. At silgan, where work very hard but the money paid does not add up. Now listen, because I don't want any of management thinking that I'm talking bad about them because I'm not. The jobs schedule is not a pleasant one. 12 hour rotation shifts. One week 36 hours next week 48 hours. Meaning, your checks aren't the same every week. Also, Meaning, if you want to see a decent check every week, you have to work overtime pretty much all week. I don't like to complain,  but I think that this job is very under paid and all employees are over worked for sure. The money doesn't match the labor here and that's what my problem is. I don't mind working , but  I just want to atleast be motivated to do so. 12 hours is a long time to work no matter what you do. Lots of time away from home, and family. Overtime means even more time away but you have to work overtime to make an okay living at this job. Also, overtime is not always offered so trust me, when it stops its not fun period. All in all I give this job 2 stars because I actually like the management, they are not the issue. The issue is MORE WORK LESS PAY. 

Keep machines running and cleaned up while producing a quality product. Complete paper work and work as a team player to accommplish the work being done. Always keeping  safety # one. I have learned to use tools and coordinate things in a sometimes fast paced enviroment.  I get along with the management but dont always agree with all their ideas and policies but this is life with all people. I enjoy interaction with most of my co-workers,cutting up, joking, but most importantly getting the work done.  Most difficult thing is to get everything done and cleaned up in a timely manner.  
We run the machines, sweep up lines, do small electrical repairs, change out  broken parts, paperwork, sometimes on as many as 4 lines.  Fun part of the job is when trying to solve a problem with someone and you have success, get the line back up running sweet and productive.  Communication is also very key to success, with your crew and to the shifts prior to and after you.

A typical day in Quality consist of first obtaining report from the leaving quality personnel. After that prepare my task sheet for the day. Then I prepare to rush through my morning trying to perform three line checks on three forming lines,and four printing machines. Then began to pull 300 parts off each line conduct 100% complete visuals .Then obtain product off the printing lines and visuals. If defects are found I must locate the unit place in on hold, then finish the line checks.Once the latter task is completed then I will try to conduct a microscopic visual on dimensions of the bottom of the molds, which is not completed by the end of my 12 hour shift due to the fact that one machine must be shared with the Machine operators form the forming lines, and that is an on and off occurrences with the multiple adjustments to the lines. Not enough people nor the proper tools needed to be a reliable quality department.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Packer 44 salaries reported	$18.13 per hour
Maintenance technician 13 salaries reported	$26.08 per hour
Forklift operator 11 salaries reported	$17.32 per hour
Machine operator 5 salaries reported	$20.20 per hour
Quality assurance technician 10 salaries reported	$18.90 per hour

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