Bimbo Bakeries Reviews

Pros

Great people and excellent work environment. The atmosphere in the bakery is great. Everyone works hard and the people care for each others safety and progress.

Cons

It is very hot inside the bakery during the Summer. However there are plenty of fans and water stations inside to keep people hydrated and cool.

Pros

Hours are ok fellow workers are great

Cons

dealing with customers can be a challenge especially when your shelves are bare. ( was working for Sara Lee, we were bought out by Bimbo). No raise in 3 yrs, depressing place to work

Pros

Working for yourself. Easy, stress free.

Cons

No support from company to grow your business. Very unorganized home office. There is a basic lack of common sense from the bakery staff.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire sales managers that at least have had sales, or management experience.

Pros

great work hrs. great 401 package, lots of overtime pay. plant as a whole has very low waste and down time. they give nice dinners for holidays. as long as your doing your job they pretty much leave you alone. management can be very understanding to personnal problems.

Cons

upper managent can sometimes be very close minded to new ideas and improvements. theres room for improvements but for some reason they dont want to. maybe they have a good reason why but workers need to know why. need to improve on training and schooling.

Advice to Senior Management

always find out why good workers leave. theres been to many good workers leaving. better training. fire the workers who are always messing up. make operators more responcipable for there performance

Pros

Bimbo (Stroehmann's) pays well, they have about average benefits for exempt salaried positions. Due to the high turnover of salaried positions Norristown is an easy place to get a job. Conditions at the Plant have improved somewhat but upper management is afraid of real change and honest culture change at the plant does not look like its going to be successful

Cons

I could write a laundry list of what is wrong with working here but I''l let these true FACTS tell you the story. I cannot say why all these employees left but from June of 2007 the plant has lost employees in the following salaried positions. (many of which were good, qualified people) They all could not be bad.:
3 Plant Managers
2 Maintenance Supervisors
2 Sanitation/ Food Safety Managers
8 Production Supervisors (including a production manager who gave notice and was working on the floor as a Supervisor and a process improvement manager who was made a supervisor). These are called Line Managers at the plant

Recently the Company (Bimbo Bakeries USA just posted for a Sanitation/ Food Safety and a Line Manager positions) so there may be more than what is listed above.

Advice to Senior Management

Put a full time HR manager at the plant plant and be responsive to the needs of the employees.

Follow through with a work week for Production Supervisors and employees that has a better quality of life.

Have upper management (corporate above VP of Operations) engage the 1st Line Supervisors and find out what is really going on there (all shifts and lines).

Set up exit interviews with accountability for salaried employee loss coming from the corporate level.

Back track to find out why there is so much turnover by corporate for the last 4 years unless losing 15+ employees is acceptable.
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Get serious about maintaining equipment, maintenance downtime on equipment is accepted too easily by management with little or no follow up and consequences. Maintenance does little more than fixing whatever breaks.Install a preventative maintenance program, and then a predictive one. Down days are not fully being utilized. Within a year all new equipment purchased was in the same state of disrepair as the equipment it replaced due to lack of PM.

Run the plant from the larger picture, not sacrificing or compromising safety, quality or waste to get through the current crisis or holiday.

Address heat issues especially on the bread line.

Pros

bennies, pay, always have work, no lay offs

Cons

the shifts arent fare to are familys, and days off are split apart

Advice to Senior Management

learn as much jobs as u can, they ll move u up

Pros

The pay and the benefits are the best in this field.For the most part everyone is treated with respect

Cons

On the negative side,it seems that they are never satisfied and keep adding more and more things to do.Most of that seems to come from corporate

Advice to Senior Management

Before starting new programs,perhaps there could be a survey taken, which the people who actually have to implement the program would have some input.Perhaps some things could be tested first in a select market to determine how much added time it would put on the people involved.

Pros

Good atmosphere, results breeds trust with no micro managing

Cons

moving targets too many last minute changes

Advice to Senior Management

Have conviction with sales plans, see them through.

Pros

1. My family . my self .and the the oportunity to grow in the company. the oportunies are very good as long as you know what your doing and you are devoted and deserve you positon.

Cons

the only downside of Bimbo Bakeries is that they cut engerniers and they dont hav time to fixs all of the broken machines. The company loses alot of time and products.

Advice to Senior Management

.we need re hire more engerniers. we need them to start to fix all the problems with the machines with out machines we can work made some bread & we trow away are work...

Pros

i believe in all and all we have the best product ut on the market,and accutaly have aring vendor who distribute that product,

Cons

i feel there needs to be more time spent by mangemnt to fix the product not getting here when ordered rather then if damged piece of bread is on the floor adress the large issue(the demand for are product and utlizezationof are space product affectively0 rather then the small issues that can easily be fixed.

Advice to Senior Management

acctually take a moment to care about the ios feelings and ideas rather then assume they dont know a thing.