Pros
Pay and benefits are better than local competition at this time. You can learn some valuable skills. There are some really nice and interesting people on the shop floor. There are some really cool machines to work on.
Cons
Constant overtime. Management just shut down the plant for a week and a half and forced us to use our vacation or take it unpaid - which they're doing again in December. They followed this up by informing us that we'll now be working 12 days (8.5 hr shifts) in a row before getting a day off, then right back to another 12 days of work. If you're on a line that doesn't work three shifts you'll be working 9 or 10 hour shifts now. They used to pay for meals on the weekends and stopped doing that. Also if you're unable to work on a weekend they punish you with "unpaid PTO" where it counts against your PTO balance but you don't get paid, which doesn't seem legal. For the past couple years they've been focusing on being "more lean" which means understaffing the lines and demanding more responsibility from each employee. There is a clear talent shortage and they refuse to raise wages to attract qualified applicants, and now word has gotten out that it's a bad place to work so it's even harder to hire good people. When I started, every new employee was moving up in their career. Their last job was worse than this one. Now the only people we hire are people who were fired from their last job. Once someone is hired, the training is an absolute joke. There are very few trainers because becoming a trainer doesn't come with any sort of benefits. When they finally find a trainer, it will be rushed because that trainer is needed somewhere else due to how "lean" we are. After you struggle your way through a task one time you'll be thrown to the wolves and expected to do it perfectly from that point on. Many valuable veteran employees have left in the last year due to deteriorating working conditions. Every single talented person I know here is looking for a new job somewhere else. They will move you from your current shift to another shift with less than a week's notice and aren't willing to work with you. Lots of "you're moving to third shift or you're fired." The reason for all the overtime is that management constantly commits to record production numbers and just assumes they can figure out how to meet those numbers later. Equipment doesn't run well and it's very obviously due to lack of maintenance. Lack of maintenance is due to fear of shutting the lines down for any amount of time and not being able to attract maintenance technicians. All these negatives will not change due to leadership only promoting yes-men. If you speak out and you're good at your job you won't receive bonuses or promotions due to a bad attitude. If you speak out and aren't that great at your job they'll just fire you. I'm currently looking for a new employer while hoping Haleon gets bought out by a more competent company, or that Haleon comes to their senses and fires most of the leadership team. This place used to be known in the area as being a good place to work, and now it's becoming a laughing stock. It already is a laughing stock to the current employees. Maybe things are better for office or lab workers, but I would stay far far away from any manufacturing or packaging jobs.
