Rexam Reviews

Pros

Has good work balance, reasonable benefit. Top management has regular meeting with the employee and good committee on safety work environment.

Cons

Business units are sold off or close down during the crisis. Consolidation and sustainability issue should has been analyses better to prevent it. Company has quite a bit of debt.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue with the good work. Overall good management. Could create more identity for all sites instead of only a few site in Europe and Latin America.

Pros

Challenging, some very talented people work at Rexam in BG. The facility is very nice and the equipment is state of the art.

Cons

Bottom line driven, do not really care about the employees, just a front for business as usual. Revolving door and high turnover.

Advice to Senior Management

Refine the diamond you have and stop growing through acquisition. The potential of the existing assets are incredible. Figure out what to do with them.

Pros

High quality products, no shortcuts taken to achieve excellence, personal growth

Cons

workload fluxuates, especially if hourly. Can get so far up then becomes stagnent

Pros

Pay was good and health care was excellent.

Cons

Don't follow own company policies, don't inform employees of certain FMLA rights.

Advice to Senior Management

Fire the &*%&%& that made the decision to fire people abiding company policy. See you in Federal Court.

Pros

Culture was friendly. People were helpful. Franklin site is growing and expanding. Reasonable work life balance. OK Benefits. Plant is clean and reasonably maintained. A/C throughout plant.

Cons

Pay is below average. Plant is out in the middle of nowhere.

Advice to Senior Management

Bring pay up to metropolitain area norms. Improve training program to incorporate more time on the manufactuirng floor.

Pros

Rexam is the 800 lbs gorilla of packaging. Rexam has some super competitive products in the Pharma packaging sector. Rexam's former OI plastics knowledge base continues to be a beneficial force. The Franklin facility works with employees in most any family, medical or personal situation as far as time or working around issues. The low turn over at the Franklin facility provides a degree of stability.

Cons

Rexam's purchase of OI has allowed some unsavory elements to take advantage of the situation in Franklin. Education, Job Performance, and Experience are irrelevant at the Franklin facility. A small clique with limited outside experience, formal education or technical knowledge controls the facility. Recognition for a job well done is non existent. Age, Sex, and Racial discrimination are arguably rampant. I am a white male and uncomfortable with this. If you like "nepotism" Rexam Franklin is the organization for you.

Advice to Senior Management

Please avoid the organized tours of the Franklin Facility. Visit the plant "unannounced" on Friday afternoons preferably so you can see how the plant management is noticeably absent from day to day operations.

Ask workers at Rexam Franklin questions, WITHOUT PLANT MANAGEMENT (the clique) present. The plant management has been known to punish people for giving honest answers to senior managers after they left.

Please insist that senior plant level managers achieve some degree of education before achieving the title of "manager". Most "managers" in Franklin do not have any more than a High School education, while their subordinates often have associates, bachelor degrees, and are continuing their education. Achieving any level of education in Franklin is actually a counter productive career move.