Lactalis USA reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(170 total reviews)
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Emmanuel Besnier

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67% positive business outlook

Lactalis USA has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 170 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lactalis USA 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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170 reviews
1.0
Aug 23, 2022

Demeaning and unwelcoming

Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits are good

Cons

As a degreed army vet with 10 years manufacturing experience i applied for an intake operator position. After i quit my job to join them they handed me a rain suit and a water hose and expected me to clean up after operators too lazy to clean up after theirselves. It was demeaning work better suited for a high school dropout. Also they make sure you know your not part of the team by humiliating you with a paper suit and little red bump cap. Needless to say with my work history and education i had a better job before i got to my truck in the parking lot.

2.0
Sep 29, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay, benefits, opportunities to move around in the plant, overtime potential.

Cons

If you are anywhere between Operator 1 and Supervisor, they will ride you like a rented mule. Management demands more and more every day, and will crawl down your throat the very second something looks like it's not running well. Supervisors are ridden by the managers nearly as badly as the operators, and then take it out on the operators, who end up with so much extra work, plus the stress and demands of angry "Leadership position" people. Things just go downhill from there. In addition to that, they decide to try to run departments with less people than are minimally required to staff the lines. Supervisors don't help out when short handed, rarely call people for help, and still demand the same productivity and results. When half the crew couldn't get the work done in time, the operators get reamed. Complaints are never dealt with. Nothing changes. Scheduling is a joke. I have literally seen my department schedule change six times in one shift. Management knows, at minimum, what orders need to be run on Wednesday. Our work week runs Saturday thru Friday, so the schedules only show one week, ending on Friday. You never know if you work a Saturday until late Friday night, the night before. No asking if they can move your week around (because you're not allowed to have a life outside of those walls) and they unapologetically change your hours and demand you stay late at last second. If you tell them no, you are basically threatened with your job and told you'd be fired if you leave (walking out on the job.) The list goes on and on.

3.0
Sep 6, 2012

A daily struggle in communication.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits, employees are good people who truly want to get the job done. Product is good and desired by public.

Cons

Poor, almost non existent communication. Workers are forced overtime on a common basis. Do not expect a family life at this plant.

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