Domtar Reviews

Pros

Good group of people. Really good experience, a lot of challenges. Great place to grow career. Would highly recommend PE position to new engineer.

Cons

A lot of old equipment. It can be difficult to get things done sometimes. They are very frugal with what capital they have.

Pros

descent wages, lots of overtime

Cons

long hours, lots of stress

Advice to Senior Management

good company but a dying field need to brach off

Pros

pays good there r a lot of proff. people there

Cons

the dangers of paper making

Advice to Senior Management

listen to the people that gave you a job.

Pros

Good pay........good benefits.................good working environment.

Cons

lack of communication.........a wall between production and management.

Pros

Domtar has good benefits,long term goals,decent wages,supervisors that care about quality over quantity. The supervisors treat you like a person and not like some lowly laborer.

Cons

Working with people that use the union to keep thier jobs instead of trying to do a good job.Working with equipment that is"fixed" to run instead of being repaired properly.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the employees' that actually run the equipment, make the product, and handle the finished goods. Watch how they work and how they react to a good job done well.

Pros

The fellow work employees; some are great. The type of work. The pay. The upside of shift is the time off and the flexibility in time off. The amount of vacation time. Safety. If you don't mind shift and getting a little dirty sometimes; it's a great work place.

Cons

Communication. Treatment and fairness from management isn't very consistent at all in some departments. As far as I can see; in certain departments; the only downfall is management.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat the people that you go through the elaborate hiring process to obtain with the respect and intellect that you saw in them when you hired them. Be fair and speak with respect and not constant harsh sarcasm!!! Communicate better between yourselves and then maybe you can communicate with the hired help.

Pros

Good and supportive place to work

Cons

Typical big company environment. Not much personal touch.

Advice to Senior Management

Got to increase the salary. Salary is pretty low thus resulting in high turnovers.

Need to have a clear vision for the future.

Pros

Open communication, focus on employee development and a pretty agile organisation considering its size. A leader in the business the image of the company was drastically refreshed while I was there (1995-2008).

Cons

It's a declining industry sector in North America and apparently they will go under a lot of change in the near future. The rirement of the 10+ year CEO, R. Royer could creat some anxiety in middle management and could result in many departures.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep on improving employee communications, when employees understand better the business reality, they are making better decisions, based on actual conditions and facts rather than on rumors.

Pros

Pay and benefits are fair. Training and support is great. Overall, great company, just not the department I was in.

Cons

Manager and certain supervisors/team leads play favorites and was very obvious. Applying for job internally is not always acknowledged--don't even grant an interview. Hiring from within?? NOT!!! Too bad.

Advice to Senior Management

n/a

Pros

Domtar is still the best among the competitors in the present down paper market. The industry is not at its best time, for sure.

Cons

Projects to harmonize multiple IT systems are on hold for undetermined period of time. HR policy in terms of vacation time is very inflexible.
Management doesn't encourage feedback if it's not in line with what they expect. They are trying too hard to please the upper level and not takingenough care of their subordinates. But shouldn't it be vise versa, since it's your employees that make you a stronger leader?

Advice to Senior Management

Give a chance to your employees, don't justsay " I don't think you are ready". Try them in action, especially if they are so willing to demonstrate their abilities.