laborer

opérateur de machine

receiver

manufacturing supervisor

machine operator

Peninsula Plastics Ltd.

They advertise $2 an hour more for running more difficult machines, but only keep you on that machine for half the shift which is essentially a dollar an hour more with no guarantee you will always be on the higher paying machines, which are fast enough to keep you stressed out the entire time you are running the machine and some lower paying machines are more difficult than the higher paying machines. Lower management and co workers are good people, upper management from what I can tell, could care less. Shifts on and off ruining any chance at a reasonable life. Being minutes late counts towards your 6 un-punished sick days, and you are not paid for arriving 15 minutes early which they ask you to do. Lead hands arrive an hour early and don't get paid for it either in case you want to move up in the company, which there is little to no chance to do anyways. All in all in the short time I was there I've seen easily a dozen come and go new hires as well as people there for more than a year and that's just on 1 of the 4 shifts.

Working hours are terrible, 8-8 on and off day shifts and night shifts as well as on and off weekdays leaving no propper sleep schedule that anyone can get used to. Everyone who was permanent staff knew this place was bad news, no actual safety in the workplace due to them being friends with any safety inspectors, no chance to move up, not that you would want to as lead hands and assissants have unpaid hours. Any managment working the floor were generally good people. the $19.50/hour work is limited to 1 unbelievably fast stressful machine and equally stressful foiling machines, 6 hours normally on that one machine for a total pay of $18.50/hour meaning you will NEVER be paid $19.50 for an entire week. Upper managment gives 6 days off total per year booked off days included with sick until vacation days are earned. In my short time there I've seen over a dozen permanant workers quit including people who had been there for over a year or more, its a revolving door. 

12 hour rotating shifts. Most times shift was split into 6 hours on one machine, 6 hours on another. Sometimes they would leave us on the same thing for the full shift. 

My first day, I was put on a machine, given a 10 min explanation and left alone. 

Leadhands and foremen were either awesome or total jerks that treated you like you were stupid. 

HR would try to work with you for your needs, but was useless for the most part and made a lot of excuses. 

The other machine operators were grumpy and hated being there. Some were cool

The hardest part was going into work. 

Best part was when they did the Christmas part and different events (golf tournament and lunch, occasional BBQ, etc)

wake up late at night, i learned how most plastic objects were made, management came around once an hour to check on everyone to make sure everyone was ok and that we weren't falling asleep at work, co-workers were mostly temps so really aren't able to know them very well, hardest part about the job is the really hot material after it comes out of the machine, most enjoyable part being there was the long hours you had to yourself really, getting lost in self thought well working.

Never really received a proper training from the training staff.
They just put you in front of the machine and good luck with it.
Machine’s look’s very old and there is a always some kind of problem/downtime with it.
Few times I did ask maintenance for help with machine and was turned down because they know better!
If I could a would give zero stars to management and maintenance guys.
Every unprofessional,supervisor screaming and yelling at workers by that is normal to them as HR told me on my first day.
Good luck!

The switching of days to midnights and 12 hour shifts are the downfall of people leaving. Your not trained properly, thrown to the wolves and thought of as an imbecile should you have the nerve to mess something up. Condescending lead hands, two faced all the way. It's all about production and some machines are just way too fast even though they can slow them down, they don't. I'd advise moving on to another job. I've seen in 6 months about 25 people come and go no joke. 

I found daily duties were reasonable, only the timeline expected to complete the job was, in many cases not enough. The upper management people expected too much out of their workers, especially with the pay they were offering. The treatment towards operators is sometimes rude.  But the atmosphere on the ground between the operators and some middle management was enjoyable, and made dealing with upper management tolerable.

It's a ok place to work, if you are fast and good at your job, you will be busy, they will see to it. Good people work there, made some good friends and they are helpful, some of the staff are pretty cool. Leadhands are for the most part friendly and helpful. Sometimes the job can be hot and stinky, but it's work.

A typical day at work would be when everything is running smoothly and a very busy day. I have learned to be more courageous . The good management could be better if supervisors or foremen could leave at home their bad behavior or family issues. The workplace culture is hard and good worker. The hardest Job is when some machines works very faster and employees must work very fast for hours .

Workers were friendly and felt like a good team with very good benefits and extras from company.
 When I had started with the company I had no factory experience. They took a chance which was nice. 
Problem for me was 12 hours shifts.

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Laborer 1 salary reported	$18.50 per hour
Opérateur de machine 2 salaries reported	$28.50 per hour
Receiver 1 salary reported	$23.25 per hour
Manufacturing supervisor 2 salaries reported	$25.00 per hour
Machine operator 1 salary reported	$18.50 per hour

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