Pros
Easthampton, MA facility. Default overtime built into the first week of your rotation. Big on safety. Descent training. Mostly a low skill job, but they do a good job training. If you can walk and sign your name, no education, they'll hire you. Pay is mediocre $21 / hour compared to other manufacturing jobs in Western Massachusetts. Friendly coworkers.
Cons
Panama Schedule 12 hours overnights 7pm-7am gives a lot of time off, but hard to adjust to and your first day off is a waste as your body tries to reset to daylight hours. Impacts your health physiologically and mentally and hurts social relationships. One week you work 60 hours and the next 24. The worst is doing 36 hours over three nights. Management does not care about burnout and when it happens, they blame staff for not knowing how to deal with it. Management has no concerns about staff work / life balance. Stand for 12 hours. First 90 days you get penalized for taking time off. No sick or personal time until after 90 days. Plant shut downs during holidays is nice, but you don't get paid so your paycheck suffers. There's no employee wellness program. If you like to think and feel like you're making a difference in society, this is not the job for you. You'll feel frustrated and mentally bored. Feel like you're a cog in the corporate wheel. Can't listen to music via ear buds, which would help time go by. To be expected babysitting a machine due to safety, but it's the principle. 12 hours is ROUGH with limited mental stimulation. If you have a college degree they usually won't hire you. They mostly hire people with nothing more than a high school diploma and sometimes not even that, so the people you work with aren't cream of the crop. Latest thing is hiring immigrants because nobody wants to work at Easthampton. Amcor claims they hire top notch people. I beg to differ. They could legit automate 90% of operations using robots. Bulk of what people do is babysit the machine they're assigned to. Low skill, but management drums it up it's higher skilled because they give you a ruler and protractor to do periodic product quality control checks. Easthampton MA facility is struggling financially and that comes from someone connected to corporate management. Staff morale is low. Nobody loves their job. Lifers I think this is all they have to work based on a limited skill set. Working overnight you will gain weight.
