Graham Packaging Employer Reviews

A fast paced environment, with several different challenges each day. Room for advancement if desired. The only negative is not knowing what your schedule is going to be.

Worked for Graham Packaging for 20 years.Sarted as a line worker able to work my way up to other position.Benefits good. Not much notice on overtime would interfer with Dr. appointments ect. Overall a good place to work.

12 hours is too long to be on your feet at a job. Nothing to do but stare at white and yellow walls.

Great pay and medical benefits were very good. At times the job could be stressful, but overall a good place to work. Problem was getting the machines updated from corporate like most of the other plants in Graham. But I guess that's the price you pay in a union plant. Plant closed in 2009.

good place with good people to work with.Management was professional

I worked here for only a month. I moved 100 miles after accepting a job with Graham. Spent money out of my own pocket to move. My first week there, I only worked 4 out of 5 days I was supposed to work because they said I could not because of needing to save money. Same thing my second week. Come my third week of work, I was called into the office in – more... the am before my pm shift to be let go without any type of warning. I did not receive compensation for moving myself and family after accepting this job, nor did I receive any type of compensation for my wasted time. VERY WRONG ON THEIR PART! To hire someone only to lay them off 3 weeks later. – less

Very Long day if I was working on a Machine & the Managment Was realy nice & My co works were nice to work with the hardest part for this job was tryn to keep up with the bottles coming off the line & the Most I enjoyed about this Job was I Liked Driving the forklifts

Normal work schedule depending on position.
Gained good experience in the plastics and food industry.
Customers are well known.
Benefits are not competitive
Mirocmanagment

Not a bad place to work. good pay and decent benefits. Upper management is hard to work for.

typical day wondering if i am going to work the next week management does a poor job of communicating and plant manager is know for yelling and cursing at his management team.

Very physical work . Heavy lifting and climbing . Twelve hour shifts seven to seven.

not there n/a busy plant/ worked 12 hr shifts overnight from 7 am to 7 pm

Operate injection blowmolding machine for production of laundty detergent bottles.

Learned some valuable skills for small repairs on machinery.

A typical day was based on workin on assembly lines, packaging items like dishwashing liquid, detergent and other cleaning products onto trucks so they can shipped. Throughout the shift , i worked with a team of good workers that our overall goal was to get the job done in a certain time frame. The most enjoyable part was working at a fast pace.

stress full work place non stop problems with equipment and machinery

Overall it is a safe working environment. Management at the time did not have it together.

had a great experience, i learned a lot, and it will forever stick with me.

temp job. labor with no bennifits. 12 hour midnight shift.
paid the bills.

I think Graham Packaging is a very good place to work. It has full benefits packages available for someone to choose what fits them best. Compensation is balanced with benefits. The work culture is relaxed when production lines are running smoothly.There is a high standard to the quality and quantity of product made with safety first. Due to the high – more... demand of plastic bottling products this employer has excellent job security. Advancement is available if you want it. Management staff is knowledgeable to the business. With the revolving shifts allowing someone to work 15 days a month and still get 16 hours overtime, this employer offers great work to life balance. – less

I was a manager in one of the California Plants. The Plant Manager was abusive, derogitory, used profane language.

Pay was poor, and the expectation of salary was to work 16 hours days and on weekends.

The company operates on very thin margins, is not progressive, and has no forward thinking ability.

Completely a reactionary environmnet.

Do not – more... work for this company, all employees are completely expendable. – less