THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE KENOSHA FACILITY:
Upper management are clearly in over their heads and don't practice what they preach. HR person is the worst I have ever experienced and is a core problem with this facility. Overall company culture is terrible.
Deceptive hiring practices. Warehouse/forklift positions are seasonal but they won't tell you that up front. When business slows down (which happens quite often) you will be sent to the production department to do jobs you never agreed to do, weren't trained for, unsafe and/or above your pay grade. You may also be forced to work mandatory overtime and weekends.
Benefits are not competitive with what most companies are offering these days. You get 2 weeks of vacation with zero sick days, that's it. If you get sick or life happens and you can't report to work there is no way to avoid getting attendance points and you only get 9 of them which don't fall off your record for an entire year. This is unsustainable for most people. The entire system at Silgan seems geared to set their employees up for failure.
Silgan's 401k is subpar and deceptive. In their hiring ads they claim a 6% match but this is only true for salaried employees. Hourly employees have to put in 6% just to get a 3% match and to add insult to injury their contributions aren't fully vested for 5 years, meaning that if you were to quit or get fired (a high probability at this company) within that time span they will take their contributions back.
I could go on and on but there isn't room enough here for me to list everything negative about Silgan Containers. Do your mind and body a favor and avoid this company like the plague!
