Clearwater Paper reviews

3.4

63% would recommend to a friend

(199 total reviews)

Arsen Kitch

62% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Clearwater Paper has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 199 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Clearwater Paper employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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199 reviews
3.0
Mar 20, 2016

Great pay and benefits

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Clearwater Paper's starting wages are amazing. After a 3 month probation period upon employment, you receive a tremendous benefits package as well.

Cons

The Lewiston plant is a Union plant, therefore, it is seniority based in the production level positions. One doesn't move up in jobs until someone more senior to them leaves. This creates extreme laziness at the upper positions in production.

3.0
Mar 2, 2016

Decent

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Fairly decent Benefits, approachable staff and managers

Cons

too much to do for very little help. Expectations are virtually unattainable.

3.0
Feb 15, 2016

Production Associate

Recommend
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Pros

Good pay for long time employees. The schedule allows you a lot of time off in addition to paid holidays and vacation. You only work 14 days out of the month. 4 days one week then 3 the next.

Cons

Long shifts, 12 hours. It is shift work, 1 month of days followed by one month of nights. They force the PA's to work mandatory overtime. I think this is unethical, when you have plenty of people who want to work overtime but are not allowed to and many are forced to work who do not want to. They espouse a culture of safety but there are many serious injuries on shift. I think because of the pressure from management to produce, produce. People take shortcuts to make their budget and put themselves at risk. The plant used to be a self directed workforce. With no supervisors, the teams made all of the decisions on shift. Then all that changed, they have so many supervisors now, there are layers of people over looking every aspect of plant operation. They have a policy of promoting people to mid level management, who are not solid managers, they will not admit a mistake, then they take a long time, to remove that person out of that position.

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