paint prep

painter

local driver

forklift operator

powder coater

XPAC

Look, the jobs not hard, its quite easy, frankly. Everything else, not so much.

The days are long, hot and boring. Now if you're just trying to get good honest money, this here job is decent. But everyone here is miserable, and it's noticeable day one. You either got people talking nonsense about each other, or nonsense about their own lives. I will say, not everyone's like that, but the general culture here is toxic. And if a community is what drives you to get a job, do yourself a favor and skip this one.

The pay is subpar, but the shifts are long and plenty, but I suppose that's usual with factory jobs. The job also comes along with health insurance, so that's a plus.

Now when I said the job is easy, it is, to a point. Going back to the community, you will rarely have people show you techniques or practices to make your life easier. It's more of a "figure it out yourself" process. Maybe I didn't ask the right questions, but that was my experience.

Being a boring job, now that's where it's interesting. For the unprepared, this job definitely makes you think. Half the time, there really isn't much to do, otherwise. I'm sure all divisions are different, but for being such a easy job, it sure as heck isn't a fun one. I'd rather be paid to watch dogs on a unicyle than this job. The majority of my time there I was staring at the clock.

Lastly, the environment itself. There is no a/c, and no heat. Winters are cold, and the summer is very hot. The building themselves are very old, dirty and rundown. There are plenty of better built places than this one.

When I was there, there was no interview, just orientation as soon as they call you. So I'd advise you to choose now whether or not you want this job.
 
Overall, if you're a blue collar man/woman, and trying to get out of a rut, this job isn't half bad, heck you might actually like it after a few months, if that's your thing. Just don't expect rainbows and glitter, and to be over the top. Most of the times it's barely over the minimum.

Typical work day is go to work, clock in during shift.  Package and lift very heavy machinery.  The item needs to be lift over your shoulder in order to be hooked onto the paint line, it is very heavy and labor intensive.  You are looking at 70LB+ each lift by yourself with about 10 second rest in between each lift repeatedly 20 times.  After days of being on the duty, your back will start to get sore and your whole body will feel like breaking down.  The job pays very little for what you actually do.  I would suggest to stay away from this company (hence the high turn rate) unless you have no other choice.  You will definitely save yourself the pain and aches that comes with it.  

The management of this company is terrible.  You enter the front door, the place looks somewhat decent along with on-site interview.  Go through orientation in a nice room with decent layout, but the moment you enter your worksite, you will realize that the company is built on a pile of sticks that only benefits the higher ups.

Through my experienced, working at any other place will be far more beneficial than this company.  It has taught me that you can work really hard but get paid really little, just to make rich people get richer.  In the end, they are sitting in their fancy house laughing at the idiots who are willing to work for their enjoyment.

The amount of work you have to do keeps you busy, which is good in a lot of ways for some, however, their lack of care with making sure the building doesn't catch on fire, their lack of care with making sure employees are safe from dangerous coworkers that aren't afraid to kill others, their lack of care with providing insurance documents that you've been paying for over several months, their lack of care with training their employees to handle ESSENTIAL roles (conflict resolution, as an example), and their lack of care surrounding being reasonable regarding some certain situations makes this one of the worst places to work for. The pay only just ensures that you can handle most of your monthly bills. Being that the company is located in Illinois, you're probably miserable from daily life already, and XPAC is just another shade of gray to add to your dreary life's painting.

Avoid this company if you value your life.

The company expects you to work your fingers to the bone for a pittance. You are expected to go above and beyond your job description at any cost, and have no say whatsoever in what work you do, even if it's for other divisions at the company. Management is unwilling to invest any kind of money in safety equipment, tools, or maintenance. The roof was leaking into garbage cans and all over the floor in four places by the time I left. The parking lots eat your tires. The equipment is in a constant state of being barely functional. The guys putting up the metal shelves don't have any safety equipment, and if they fall through they are expected to jump back up and keep working. OSHA violations are common and largely ignored. Everything is understaffed. The wooden boxes we get to pack parts in constantly fall apart. Everything is as cheap as possible. Avoid this company at all costs.

They pay well because employees threaten to quit when they find Temps make $5 more an hour doing the same job. Benefits are terrible, they're expensive and have really high deductibles. HR has a habit of creating hostile work environments and then blaming employees for their mistakes and ignorance. They hire felons and let them do whatever they want so the company can get tax breaks. A regular working class employee will be treated like dirt while felons and the like get treated like royalty. Worst HR team I have ever experienced, more incompetent than you could possibly imagine. They will always remind you that you can be replaced in less than a day.

The work was allways fast paced, because if we got behind, the orders would be shipped late.This energy that i had, made me learn the ways Xpac wanted things done in a safe and best way to be done.The employees all banded together working side by side to get orders done and shipped lead by a great management team.In the summer months, it was sometimes hard to work, and some orders took alot of time to comeplete, and alot of sweat went into that. Overall the work that was done at Xpac gave me a chance to use energy because i love to work fast and hard, just what i wanted to give me satisfaction.

Prepare to work extremely long hours with very little compensation. You will usually work a 60 hour work week, and get paid the absolute minimum that they are legally obligated to pay you. They have little tolerance for family emergencies, and will fire you on the spot and replace you if you tell them that you have family matters that you need to take care of. You don’t get vacation till you’ve worked there for a year, and they expect you to use your hard earned vacation time to take care of personal issues, instead of how vacation should be used; to get time away from work and rest and recuperate.

Work-life balance
They overworked and underpay and salty AF if u get a different job they hold on to ur checks I highly would not recommend anyone to work here... ALOT of favoritism u get written up for marking the wrong color on the paperwork...u basically have no life working 60 hrs a wk Monday-Saturday no excuses accepted..

Pay & benefits
In general this place is the worst to be at... And they still work with cases of covid in the building masks are not required

Overall
Horrible... If u don't want a life go there otherwise find something that will value ur work and not treat u like dogs or disrespect u cause they have the so called authority to do so

It's a pretty fast paced job, they pretty much expect you to know everything given the managers there hate training new people. Whatever position you apply for you will not get. I applied to be a machine operator, told them during my interview I prefer not to do weekends because of child care they OK'd everything, ive been a general laborer EVER SINCE I STARTED not what I applied for. Then working 6 days a week is mandatory, on top of that mandatory overtime. you only get Sunday's off....

a typical day includes printing bills for truck drivers to pickup
enter billing information in the system creating a summary and invoice for payment.
enter and review labor information for the payroll department each day
in receving office I help with the preloading and printing of half sheets and delivering these halfsheets to the floor for packaging of this product
co workers and I have good report and  work together to get the work completed on a timely basis
the best part is when I see a pile of work from the morning, completed at the end of the day

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Paint prep 15 salaries reported	$15.65 per hour
Painter 1 salary reported	$20.10 per hour
Local driver 1 salary reported	$25.29 per hour
Forklift operator 10 salaries reported	$17.69 per hour
Powder coater 6 salaries reported	$18.10 per hour

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