material handler

machine operator

production operator

sanitation worker

maintenance technician

Solina USA

A typical day at work would be going in with a skeleton crew of workers trying to push as much product out as possible. Trying to figure out the game plan for the day when management is constantly changing schedules or work loads.

Always undermanned so you will be asked to do mandatory Saturdays and they won't tell you that you have to do mandatory Mondays starting 2hrs earlier for 1st shift which will cut your weekend dramatically with a start time of 4:30am instead of 6:30am. So it will 6 or less workers setting up 9 different tanks until normal shift starts only to get 4 more workers for the rest of the shift to help push out work. Each tank needs at 3-4 workers just to get the work out, 1 to pull from the tank, 1 that seals the bag, 1 that flattens the bag for the detection and 1 to stack the bags on a pallet. 

Expect to lift over a combined 24,000 pounds plus of product in mostly 50 pound bags, you will to do this to fill the tank and while you seal and stack. You will be doing this all day and you will be stuck doing one of those each day with no help since there will be no one else there. 2nd shift has even less workers so good luck with that position.

You will have to get use to using insufficient gear to protect your lungs from all the seasoning and spices that will be all over you and in your lungs. They do offer benefits from health to life insurance so that is a plus.

So this company has a very weird point system when it comes to attendance now this is very important to everyone. If you call out for any reason you will be taking points for not coming to work. If you have a doctor's note you won't get points but if you're out for more than 3 days it doesn't matter points will taken from you regardless. If you make it up to 25 pts you will be terminated no matter what excuse. Family emergencies or other obligations you will be punished with points. If you have any type of family this is not the work environment for you, HR is young and unforgiving and them and upper management do not follow the same point system that all your average worker do.

Not a very safe working environment at all, forklifts are zooming by right behind you while you work and they have no space so you have to pay attention at all times. You could be working on the pallet and if you put your foot back to far you will get run over. I've seen this happen numerous times.

Best part of the job was the coworkers struggling on the floor with you. You will never meet a bunch of kind hardworking group of people anywhere. They will help as much as they can and teach you so you can succeed too. Shout out to all those 1st shifters, they deserve so much better too bad its wasted on supporting a company that doesn't care for them.

A typical day at Saratoga would consist of me starting off by going through the days orders and making sure everything that was on the invoice was on the shipping dock ready to go. I had to make sure the orders for the next 2 days were also being picked and ready for delivery. I learned to manage people while working here, i had the responibility of the loader and the picker, i had to make sure that they did their job correct or it would fall on me. Management was tough, it was always a lot of pressure and growing experience. I got along very well with all my coworkers and we all helped each other out to get the job done. The hardest part about this job was when something on the order was wrong due to miscommunication and it would be diffucult to figure out where we went wrong. I loved working with my coworkers, we always had a great time, it made work easy and fun.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There really wasn’t the best part of working at Saratoga foods.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Everybody in management. Absolutely horrible to deal with. HR is another giant disaster at Saratoga Food Specialties. They give you five vacation/sick days total for the first three years that means you get 2 1/2 sick days and 2 1/2 vacation days a year if you split it right down the middle.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Most of my coworkers were great management was horrendous.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stand around and wait for something to break because they don’t want you to sit down.

Senior management display inconsistency and often are reluctant to empathize with the daily challenges faced by lower-level managers and associates. The team is thinly staffed, and individuals are expected to handle the requirements for four facilities when the standard should limit each person to handling only two facilities. Nepotism is widespread within the company, leading to individuals with no relevant experience being appointed to positions in various sectors. The company lacks standardized protocols in all of its departments.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Management really sees you as a person.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
In my opinion there’s no stressful part about the job. The expectation of doing your job well is an expectation that one puts on one self which shouldn’t  be stressful if you’re an effective and efficient worker.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is laid back and the culture is very diverse.

Horrible place to work, currently employed there for over 3 years now. They do not care about the employees at all. Benefits suck and they lie about how much you can make. They don’t care what kind of employees they have as long as there’s someone to fill the spot. They bring in endless amounts of temp employees who should not be qualified to drive a car. The work I do is very physically demanding and is not worth the pay. Management does not care about employees either does HR.

LOTS of dust(silica). Lots of manual work.
You get a cheap facemask.  you are not allowed to wear gloves.
Lots of non english speaking co-workers. 

Most workers were very nice.  There is a huge language barrier there. 
They told me I would be a mixing operator but didn't have me mixing and told me
I had to start at the bottom tossing bags.  Makes no sense since they hired me because of my mixing experience. 

poor benefits, little room for advancement. 

The people I work with are amazing and very kind and helpful. The benefits are great. The management and scheduling leave a lot to be desired. They have poor planning and the last minute decisions and changes are the main cause of stress for half the staff. While poor management causes the other half to be a group of people spreading gossip around like wildfire with a firefighter trying to put it out with a hair dryer.

Everyone was extremely friendly and open to eachother, experiences employees, great communication. Would have been satisfied with working there longer is not for pay and how long it takes to get a raise. They like to hire contract workers and lie about possible direct hire after 3 months but its more like 1+ years before it happens. 

The blue caps and leads are great to work with and be around they all work towards helping one another! But it’s when you get to senior management is the problem the turn over rate is so high you are missing people all the time leading to being short instead of them leading by example they are swift to throw random people in spot. and hope the ship runs at full speed, and when it dose not you we’ll be surly reminded of it the next day. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Material handler 2 salaries reported	$22.53 per hour
Machine operator 1 salary reported	$19.73 per hour
Production operator 3 salaries reported	$20.25 per hour
Sanitation worker 2 salaries reported	$21.74 per hour
Maintenance technician 3 salaries reported	$34.89 per hour

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