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Silgan Containers

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Silgan Containers reviews

2.9

48% would recommend to a friend

(302 total reviews)
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Mike Gresl

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49% positive business outlook

Silgan Containers has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 302 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Silgan Containers 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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302 reviews
1.0
Nov 25, 2014

Sinking Ship

Recommend
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Pros

Excellent pay, Decent benefits, Close to home, 4 on 4 off schedule. Union shop

Cons

Upper management is inexperienced and they treat all employees like children. The upper managment comes on the floor throwing stuff, tools, parts, peoples personal belongings they have no respect for their employees. If their is a safety issue brought up to management instead of fixing the problem they just send you home for expressing your concern. They are putting 25 million dollars plus into this plant and we are making less product than ever before. And on top of that they sell more product than we can possibly make so we are forced to work every holiday including Christmas. This is a multi million dollar company that can't buy $.50 parts because its not in the budget. Doors are held together with rags and rubber bands. Safety switches are bypassed because we can't afford any in this months budget. They create more and more quality checks because we send bad products, we wouldn't send bad product if we had parts to fix the machines. Just added a lot of new equipment and still have the same amount of people with double the amount of quality checks at some point some things gotta give. Were are doing the work of 5 people with only 2 and they wonder why we have so many issues. They say fill out a requisition form and you will get what you need hmmm fill one out and wait 8 months you might get what you need. We are also at the point now where speaking English is optional and Spanish is mandatory. We can't train any of the new employees because none of them speak English. And when we can communicate with new hires the training program is non existant they must learn on their own.

1.0
Jan 14, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is relatively high for the industry but is being cut each year.

Cons

This is a union shop, but the union is being weakened internally by management, and is essentially non existent. Management treats the employees like slaves, and asks them to carry out unsafe and unrealistic assignments. Management will ask you to break all rules, corporate policy and standard operating procedure to maintain production. If you don't do so, you will be reprimanded indirectly. -Management is downright hostile and has had physical fights with employees. -Shop stewards are not helpful and are also physically and verbally abusive. -Safety standards and equipment are not to spec, and management makes no attempt to resolve this. -Management interrogates employees - This is an equal opportunity employer, but some employees are more equal than others - You WILL be asked to perform dangerous, poor quality and repetitive laborious tasks to maintain the production line. - The plant is severely understaffed and you will be required to work 2-3 times harder than necessary to make up for this. Most employees are uneducated as well. - Plant temperatures can reach below freezing in the winter and over 110F in the summer -You WILL be ordered to falsify company documentation, which is grounds for termination. If bad product is reported and an investigation started, you will be held responsible, regardless of whether or not your superiors forced you to do so. - Quality documentation must be fabricated to maintain production requirements, and management will deny this, leaving you responsible in the event of defective product being discovered.

1.0
Jan 12, 2015

MY EXIT INTERVIEW

Recommend
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Pros

Employees are great to work with. Pay is good.

Cons

12hr shift, 25.00 a hr with no support/confidence from management. Upper management gives no ownership to floor supervisors. I was there 12yrs, and the Rochelle plant went through 32 supervisors. Why I left: Example: Asked for a leave of absence, " during a layoff " DENIED. Silgan has lost 12yr experience, ran efficiently, safe, and most of all with the same goal in mind as Management. QUALITY + NUMBERS= SUCCESS.

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