Metal Container Corporation Reviews

- Inexperienced management, literal teenagers running the show some days - Corporate mindset here is a joke. They'll get all riled up about downtime when something breaks, and then forget it ever happened two weeks later when the next fire shows up - Union is a joke. Dues are based on percentage of pay, electricians make top dollar in the plant so we contribute more than anyone else, yet we get zero representation - Did I mention the corporate nonsense? Their latest genius idea is called "Autonomous Teams". Basically just a way to appeal to the lowest common denominator with what should be common sense - Pay is actually low compared to the duties and responsibilities you're expected to have here. Industrial electrician, plc tech, maintenance planner, all rolled into one. - You will get called nonstop some days because nobody outside of the electric shop is held to any sort of standard. They'll look at you with a straight face and expect you to troubleshoot their machine for them. - Shift work gets pretty old. 12 hr days, back and forth between nights and days every month. - Retention sucks and the plant is almost always short staffed, so the forced overtime gets old as well - We never have parts to fix anything because our storerooms are controlled by people at the corporate office up in st louis, instead of someone at the plant that actually knows what's going on

1. Where you start is where you stay. The FEW opportunities to move up or into better positions are taken up by nepotism. If you aren't someone's nephew or BFF, you aren't going anywhere. 2. It is a typical "corporate" environment. For example: you will have to learn the mandatory buzzwords and catch-phrases each year for whatever new fad the corporate office latches onto. It isn't hard to play along, but feels silly after a while.