Nestlé Waters North America Reviews

Pros

Plenty of Growth opportunities, as long as you are willing to relocate.

Cons

NWNA is definitely taking advantage of the downturn in the economy to slim down manpower in all areas. Work force on the floor has been turned to 50% temp, which places a burden on all areas. At the salary level, more is expected with less resources provided. Ten to twelve hour days are expected, as well as being "on call" at all times.

Advice to Senior Management

If you want to keep your good employees, you need to hire more at the salary level so that work/life balance can be corrected.

Pros

High integrity leaders
Nonunion workforce offers competitive advantage
Competitive pay and benefits
Strong environmental record

Cons

Work life balance is bad and getting worse
Little formal training or career pathing structure

Advice to Senior Management

Need better internal communications for employees to connect w business strategy and performance
Pay attention to employee surveys about the work life balance issue - do something about it.

Pros

Great people to work with and for. Teamwork in our branch makes it fun to come to work every day. Good pay and benefits

Cons

My job can be tough at times, long days and all types of weather. Customers can be hard to deal with.

Advice to Senior Management

We need to continue to have leaders who treat people fairly and with respect. Grow the business faster to ensure we have a future.

Pros

The health benefits are good. For the most part the employee's look out for each other. There is a lot of team work.

Cons

They do not offer a pension plan only a 401k with company match 0.50 cent on a dollar. It would be nice if they coluld offer both.

Advice to Senior Management

Managers could learn to communicate more. Also be more willing to listen when an employee has something to say. Believe it or not some employees care about there work enviroment as well.

Pros

Team atmosphere, honesty of management, ability to bring up any issue we had and receive an answer if not from our direct manager than from their manager

Cons

Long hours, some routing was messed up

Advice to Senior Management

More integration with other parts of Nestle for more career opportunities

Pros

* Starting pay for someone without a degree or in college
* Benefits aren't bad
* People

Cons

* Management
* Room for Advancement
* Repetitive nature
* Bonus

Advice to Senior Management

get new management, and learn how to be effective.

Pros

friendly atmosphere great place to work

Cons

long hrs 12 hr work days

Pros

The job will always be here. Always, someone quits, gets fired, get's hurt and get's fired. There is always work to get done if you want to stick it out. the only problem is how long before your body wears out? You can make fast money with no experience. Long hours and try to milk the overtime pay. Otherwise the standard rate is crap!

Cons

Long hours( 6a.m to 7 p.m in the summers, Winters 6-4:30) there are always short staffed. No one watns to stay or they don't want to hire and the work get's put on the guys with a full load already. Management will always tell you your going to slow. That's all they want from you is to get out of the branch and get back asap. (it's no my opinion i heard them talking in their office) Most asssured you will get some sort of tenonosis or spine issues. If so, they will tell you straight up, deal with it or leave.

Advice to Senior Management

management is pressured into makeing the imaginary numbers so the bosses can do nothing and buy another summer home.

Pros

great people, strong values, awesome products and brands

Cons

bureaucracy, heavy workload, limited diversity at senior levels

Advice to Senior Management

don't push your workforce so hard

Pros

10 hour work days, instead of 12. Weekends and major holidays off and most nights off too. Peers were really great- although no one really wanted to be there.

Cons

No support, leaders who can't even form a sentence. this company operates like it's stuck in the 50's or 60's, rather than the 21st century.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more minorities, be willing to challenge the status quo. Listen to all ideas, instead of dismissing someone based on their title.