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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
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Money is decent for the area, but we only get paid good because it is a UNION shop. 4 on 4 off schedule is nice if you actually get your days off. Benefits are ok also.

Cons

Many mandatory extra days. We get forced to work most holidays incuding Christmas because coporate sells more cans than we can ever make. When upper managment is on the floor they throw things, parts, tools cans, peoples personal belongings. They hav e no respect for their employees at all. Safety is only important if it does not affect production. If someone has a potential safety concern and brings it up to the managment they just send that person home and have someone else do the job instead. Most of the newer people dont speak English causing a major training barrier in a training program that is already lacking. once you know how to start a machine your training is complete and everything else you must learn on your own. We have many machines down for days at a time because we have no parts to fix anything. we are adding lots of new equipment but making less and less product because the manning we have is not sufficient for the amount of work we need to do on a daily basis.

1.0
Nov 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent wages and 4 on 4 off schedule when they dont force you in.

Cons

This place is run very poorly.. management thinks they know everything but never done the jobs them self.. Everything looks great on paper but doesnt mean it works.. try askin the "employees" sometime.. they make it work every day... duhhhhh. They couldnt manage a 4yr olds bday party.. have 21 machines and no parts.. but expect you to polish a turd into a diamond. Running the worst coolant in the country and pure garbage for oil thru the 21 machines that have no parts to fix when the garbage oil destroys the bearing.. GENIUS.. they never listen to the venders on how their products should be run.. cause SILGAN management knows best.. thats why edison plant runs like crap.. they need to stop tryin to cut every corner.. its the cost of doin business before its outta business.. how do you buy a half a million dollar machine or more and the company voids ur warrantee cause your running garbage oil thru it.. whats it gonna take to wake up and see the light!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean what kinda plant has a UPPER MANAGEMENT THAT GETS SENT TO ANGER MANAGEMENT TRAINING CAUSE THEY FLIPS OUT LIKE A SPOIL BRATS CAUSE THE PLANT DOESNT RUN SOME TIMES.. BUY SOME DAMM PARTS..added 8 million dollars to the plant in 2 years n running worse n worse numbers as the days go on.. Priceless cause the engineers know it all...

4.0
Oct 31, 2014

Nice company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good company, large company that is run like a small one, nice people, innovative, long term employees, fair compensation.

Cons

Old values, not very progressive working environment, expect a lot out of employees, hours can be very long and trying, old school

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