machine operator

shipping and receiving clerk

manufacturing specialist

production assistant

press operator

Southern Champion Tray

This is a great place to work.  I work in the Texas plant and I've never worked for a company like this before.  I've worked in large and small companies and everything in between.  Everyone from the owners and executive management at our corporate office to the people on the production floor are wonderful people who care about you. No company is perfect, but the people here make coming to work enjoyable and it feels like family.  The culture is very strong and the leaders work hard to keep it that way.  

They are growing and business is very good so there is a lot of change and new people and change can be hard, but the company takes care of their people in good times and bad.  They have never had a lay off in 90 years.  They expect people to work hard but they value family and people first, not the bottom line or money.  

The benefits are good and cost about the same as other companies I've worked for.  They have an onsite fitness center and a nice updated building, air conditioned and very clean plant and new equipment.  The pay is good, it might not be the highest, but it's fair and the culture and other perks make up for it.  They have a saying that has stuck around through the years "SCT is easy to love and hard to leave" and I would say that is very true.

Been at SCT a long time and have good relationships with employees and management.  The owners want the work to feel like family and one of the owners talks to people regularly. One of the chiefs also comes out to check on us and we respect him too.  Other managers also make you fell at home.  But lately, it feels like the new big dogs just want to tell you how great they are about selling or why profits are down.  We never see them but a couple times a year and now on video. Hypocrisy if it supposed to be family and trusting and relationships.

Now with corona at work, we still only see the same management walking around, but I expect the new chiefs are going to tell us how we should fell and how they are selling. Been here a long time and still don't understand why they tell us how they  fell and don't ask how we fell.  We need  leadership, family environment and true caring not words.

I hope it changes back to the old ay soon, or we may be faced with more corona, no culture and no dedicated workers.

I like SCT and I want to retire at SCT, but respect should be earned not demanded.  Support your supervisors and act like you care to employees.

As a production machine operator you are pounded with work orders and only given a 30 minute lunch break,  no 10 relief breaks. You just have to wall off the job to go the bathroom.  Unless your a kiss up you never move up,  YOU have to train those individuals to be your manager.  Supervisors and office personnel sweat you out cause they are cold sitting in their offices!! They look down on their production workers as if they are nothing. Benefits are over 550.00 a week for family coverage.  Some of us only live on 400 a month trying to cover insurance benefits.  Covid support is a joke here.  They call you and tell you unless you're running a fever get to work or you will point out and get fired.  Worst company housing behind a Christian cover up. Shame on you!!! This company finds ways to charge their employees for everything to profit for themselves.  When we have opportunities to raise money for fellow employees needing help,  the company charges us for paper trays to use that they normally will throw away.  If they announce an event,  you better be willing to pay for it cause they got no shame in their game!!

Employee's are on a productivity pay scale based on numbers of picks you have hourly. Pay ranging from $7.25 hour to $20.09 hour based on the number of picks. Supervisor's have there favorites and which will affect the employees pay. Supervisor's will give some employee's orders with low amount of picks, so that employee will make $12 an hour. Supervisor's will give his favorite employee's orders with high amount of picks, so that employee will make $20 an hour. Management doesn't care about supervisor's favoritism with employee's. Variable pay here is really favorable pay. Employee's are not treated fair. Supervisor's base employee's pay on if they like them or not. 2 employee's doing the same job should make the same hourly, not one making $20 and the other one making $10 because the supervisor's favoritism.

The job isn't bad, the work is easy, the machines take about a day to learn. It is possible to move to other departments and make better pay doing similar jobs, but most jobs are filled by outside hires rather than moving up an existing employee. 

The biggest issue is the lack of respect from management. They expect to be treated like royalty, but will treat the employees as common peons. Although the pay is decent and the benefits are good, sometimes people just want to be treated like people. Management is mostly control freaks, and something small like wearing a hat or faded blue jeans to your interview is considered disrespectful to them and could cost you your job, or cause you to start at a lower pay than is typical for the job. Overall, though, it's a production job, you're going to get dirty, and interviewing in a business suit or khakis is totally unnecessary and ridiculous.

There are some things worth noting that you should know. Things the company will not tell you before you start. 

1. You only get one break. That’s right, ONE. Work 4 hours, 30 min break, work 3 and half more. 

2. Always ask what your starting pay is. I’ve seen a lot of people be led on to believe they will be getting higher pay, but they were told the ceiling rate if the position not the starting pay. So be sure to ask. 

I also had a workmans comp claim that the company basically did nothing about. I had to make all the phone calls to make sure it was paid and it was very frustrating. Every time I asked management they just shifted the blame. Basically felt like the management didn’t care what happened. 




Ok here it goes! The health insurance is ridiculously expensive! The point system is unfair,so much so that if you get sick you still get a point even with a doctor's note! No sick time!! People have to use their vacation time if they are sick to prevent getting pointed.People get move from their departments all the time without getting an upgrade in pay for doing a more demanding job. You can't speak your mind! If you do! You are targeted and labeled as a negative worker. Limited training for skilled positions but high expectations for operators. Operators are evaluated by production numbers even after they cut the machines production capabilities by 50% because they move packers to other departments. Unfair operator evaluation system.

They expect perfection they don't care what the circumstances are or  what it takes to get there just the end result. Management is terrible they never complement your work always try and find the negatives. The job itself is a miserable mindless job and is a complete waste of your time. Not what i expected when i was hired. Your not going to learn anything of significance.  The roads around this area are horrific had to buy tires twice. They have a rule for everything. Majority of the time you are rushed to get the work done its very stressful. The pay is decent but not for what you have to put up with. Don't waste your time and effort and look for something else.

Very hard work for almost 5 hours straight without a break. Can't even go to the bathroom! They don't care about the employees. They make you work on Fridays when the work week for 3rd shift is Sunday through Thursday. Break is very short..Yes , one single short break after working 5 hours and then you gotta work 3 more hours straight after that. Supervisors walk around like slavedrivers. All they need is a whip in their hands. No sick time. You gotta use your vacation hours when you're sick . So, don't get sick or you won't have a vacation! This job sucks! Oh, and, you get a point if you are out sick.

I was hired in on first shift as a palletizer, work 3 months, got promoted to another job also on first shift, other employees got mad I was hired in on first shift and also that I was promoted onto another job that was first shift as well. Two weeks after I was told I had the new position they called me in the office and said they were gonna let me go because they just don’t need me anymore. I stayed in contact with other employees and come to find out they said they fired me because I have a hurt back, well I’m a disabled veteran. Can’t tell me that’s not discrimination and illegal... they are not the company you want to work for. Don’t waste you’re time!

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Machine operator 2 salaries reported	$26.20 per hour
Shipping and receiving clerk 2 salaries reported	$18.00 per hour
Manufacturing specialist 2 salaries reported	$17.00 per hour
Production assistant 1 salary reported	$17.25 per hour
Press operator 1 salary reported	$21.00 per hour

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