maintenance technician

logistics coordinator

Zentis North America

I worked at the company for 3 years, starting in the production department for the first 18 months I was there.  

Due to mandatory overtime I was working 60 hours one week and 72 hours the next every pay period.  Money was decent but in the long run didn't feel worth it at all.  I wanted 2 days off a week, the extra $ didn't make up for it.

Due to extremely high turnover rate, I estimate I trained upwards of 30+ people, doing a supervisors job for my starting base pay.  Maybe 1 in 6 people I trained would last, most found the job too fast paced or difficult or both.

I was constantly forced to pick up the slack of other workers, especilly those that had been at the company a long time.  It seemed as if the longer you worked there, the lazier you became.

Things improved SLIGHTLY after I got into the logistics department for a short while, but then that went down hill as well when a completely inept person was placed in charge of the department.  How much sense does it make to have the director of logistics be a person that can't even operate a forklift, let alone manage a department of 25 forklift operators?  A person making a 6 figure salary that doesn't know the first thing about logistic is put in charge of logistics, talk about favoritism.  Had finally had enough when production department employees got $2 an hour raises while my department got nothing, plus we got our hours cut.

Enough was enough.

Worked for this company for 4 months, as container wash, and as an upstairs cook.  Did both jobs better than most.  Within 2 weeks I was running a room, doing the paperworks, training noobs, and keeping numbers high.  All for them to tell me I had missed too many days upon hiring in.  When I asked them to reconsider, as I'd only missed one day, they changed the reason to "I don't get along with others".  My team loved me, I was the only one to stick out that position longer than 2 weeks in over 6 months of employees.  Saw over 20 people come and go, just in my area.  Anyways, the company will work you like a dog, and just fire you with a made up reason if you manage to make it to the hire date.  The night supervisor is a deincentivising, targeting, load of garbage, who does nothing productive.  He's the only one who ever had any problem with me, for what, Ill never know.  But it was his say against mine, in a corporate establishment, they look at time worked over facts.

There is literally no career path within this company. You're well paid for your title, but under paid for your responsibilities. Luck of the draw on constant "restructuring" is your best bet on obtaining a "promotion." Management is made up of all "business buddies/favors" and if you're not in the "clique" they could careless about you. They're not afraid to lie straight to your face. They runout anyone who opposes or expresses a different opinion. They waste money like it grows on trees and show up in their "free upgrade" Escalade touting we need to save money and take away our bonus opportunities. Then promote a buddy to another made-up position. Bonuses used to be a sure thing if you worked hard and did your part. Now it's all based on some formula that Upper Management controls. Hasn't been obtainable since.

I worked there for around 4 years. Favoritism among the big bosses is rampant. Along with the fact you get overworked and constant short notice about overtime. The big bosses are nearly never on your side, they'll throw you under the bus if given the chance. HR is mostly a joke and not to be trusted. When I started it was pretty decent but this place is just going more and more downhill. They treat everyone like they are disposable and you don't matter. The pay is not worth the amount of work they want you to do. Granted they will pay new hires more then long term employees. I could go on but I think I've made my point. Go anywhere else, seriously this place isn't worth it.

The only pro is the production leads that work on floor are fair and will have your back. That's seriously it. 

If you can get past the exhausting hours it's not a bad company to work for. The benefits make it worth it. The pay is decent $16hr. Coworkers are good except the flavor room seems to bring out the worst in people. Leads are supportive and have your back. Shift leads are helpful for the most part but there is a clique mentality. So i suggest learning to play the game. Night supervisors do their job. But it's better if they are in their office. The job itself is easy once you learn everything and get a nice routine going. Nights fly by and the workers are more relaxed and friendly. Day production workers are younger and leave night shift a mess to clean up for the first 2 hours. Overall its a good place to work if you have to do the factory life.

Zentis was  a good company ,had good organizations in past year! Because of company changes the boss every year  right now company manager and supervisors that don't know how to organizations jobs. Right now the management hired lot of temporary workers  and they changed tham every 2- 3 days. The products of we doing right now  (1.2 millions lb on week ) for 7 days  we did before 2 years  for 5 days .I'm  sorry  for Zentis that is going down. I will give  e suggestions for main management in Germany: Don't live  Zentis  in unsafe hands!

Zentis North America Inc.,  employed my services in two periods of time from 2011 to 2016 and allowed me to implement a self sustaining Gemba kaizen 6S system with superior results!  This was fully vetted by the CEO, CFO and COO management team!  I trained Vice Presidents down to newly hired entry personnel.  The plant runs 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.  I covered every single shift on coaching, teaching, advanced methods in Gemba, Kaizen, 6S with sterling results.

Working here for the years I've been here has showed to me how much i despise coming to work everyday. The micromanagement is ridiculous. Upper management continuously fails the production workers everyday. We are treated like numbers that are easily replaceable. Everyone is doing the job of three with the same low pay because they refuse to hire anybody so they can fund other projects. The machinery does not work 85% of the time. The compensation is terrible with NO overtime. Overall terrible workplace and it gets worse and worse everyday. 

I had a good crew when I worked there. Once we got trained you picked up pretty quick what was going on. Everyone helped each other. I learned how to drive a stand up forklift. Management didn't know if anything was wrong if we didn't let them know. Untill my last few months I never seen them on the floor. Alot better now though. Hardest part of the job would probably be when you come in backed up from the shift before and you try to play catch up for the first 2 hours. I enjoyed the workers. 

I work an 8 hour shift, which I like better than 12 hours. Everything I do seems to be okay and fairly easy.  The management just recently came to us and asked what could be done to improve the output.  We helped them start standard work processes, which as really helped us.  I believe that we are on the verge of great stuff to come because they are interested in knowing what we think and how we feel.  

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Maintenance technician 1 salary reported	$45,000 per year
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