machine operator

forklift operator

senior manufacturing associate

senior machine operator

press operator

Vanguard Packaging

Vanguard provided me with the opportunity to travel outside my home state of Wisconsin to prospect and secure new clients.  I enjoyed traveling and meeting new people on my day to day sales call interactions.    Vanguard also transitioned over to Salesforce this past year, which was a superior CRM tool that I have not had the opportunity to utilize with my past projects.   

As a remote account executive for Vanguard, often times projects would fall be the wayside as a result of me not being at design locations to consistency follow-up on due dates/deadlines.

I was given a job at Vanguard, I worked really hard and was always handling a large amount of projects.  I went out of my way to work diligently and responsibly. They brought a employee back to my job role that was given another opportunity.  This person had 15 years experience with Vanguard and they basically laid me off for no good reason except they overstaffed. They did this in a very rude and backstabbing way, the main manager wouldn’t even face me. They got rid of a large group of employees at the same time. I would caution anybody planning to take a job with them!

The company is very unstable at this point. They were purchased by a greedy conglomerate that basically have no investment in the actual employees.  People are numbers and the management are rich white privileged people.  Due to a downturn I was eliminated and some deceitful business came into play.  I would steer clear of them.

During my time at vanguard I never knew what to expect on a daily basis seeing how they could barely keep a full staff. Almost on every shift we would have temp workers who could care less about anything, come to fill in positions. No matter how hard you try to persevere and work hard it gets taken for granted. 

If you are a  hard worker with a strong work ethic, Vanguard recognizes that and you get rewarded. We have attendance bonuses quarterly, we have employee of the month, more holidays then most production organizations. Leadership comes out on the production floor and gets to know people. I love working here.

This was an enjoyable job for the most part, breaks were too short. There's some favoritism and drama but you'll be fine (for the most part) if you stay to yourself. Certain Machine Operators would honestly take out their frustrations and stress out on ppl working their line and have some do more work than others.  

I've really enjoyed my time with Vanguard so far. My managers and coworkers are all easy to get along with and support me. The work is fast paced and always changing so it never really gets boring. 

While obsessed with quality, the management is never available when there are issues, resulting in downtime on machines. Then the employees are disciplined for not meeting goals when management doesn't seem to be held accountable.

Your going to get your 40 hours no question, you will get put on overtime on a whim, good for some, not for others.  Advancement is tough to come by but possible.
Expectations are semi unrealistic, training is a myth, learn as you go or don't learn. 

Great employees with poor upper management structure and involvement. Even poorer communication skills and on job training as well as expectations communicated.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Machine operator 1 salary reported	$21.75 per hour
Forklift operator 4 salaries reported	$22.19 per hour
Senior manufacturing associate 5 salaries reported	$21.10 per hour
Senior machine operator 5 salaries reported	$24.60 per hour
Press operator 2 salaries reported	$23.63 per hour

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