26 May 2026
Welch Packaging Reviews
3.3
57% would recommend to a friend
Scott Welch
74% approve of CEO
51% positive business outlook
Welch Packaging has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 82 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Welch Packaging employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).
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82 reviews
1.0
24 Nov 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Not much is good with this company
Cons
The point system sucks shouldn’t get a point for going to the dr after being a note in
2.0
10 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Family truly does come first here. Family emergencies and situations are not overlooked at all. Management is more than willing to work with/help you and your family out to the best of their ability. Only way family values aren’t honored is the consistent last-minute (2-3 days before) posting of mandatory weekend OT. Plenty of opportunities to jump on multiple machines and begin to learn how to operate them. Some coworkers are great. Some do less than the bare minimum and still get paid the same as, and sometimes more than the hard working employees. Call in point system is very fair. You get a lot of chances/warnings.
Cons
Over promising and under delivering from management- constantly. E.g. constantly talking about bonus structures and/or promising future raises that employees never see. Generally, annual raises fall at right about the 3% mark. Their are no other raises throughout the year. Small Thxgiving and Xmas bonuses (totaling between approx $60-260/year depending on length of employment). Management spends way too much of there day making fun of you and/or talking about you poorly behind your back, rather than addressing you about the issue(s). Nearly everything management does is planned very loosely for a month or so. On a random Tuesday, they will decide to go ahead and roll out projects/ideas with very unfinished plans, with seemingly no regard for the repercussions that will follow. Everybody except for upper management gets do deal with those issues. Upper management is never onsite. You will see your supervisor/plant manager regularly (In fact the new plant superintendent is doing great things for the plant). However, you will never see upper management engage with any production employees unless they’re trying to butter them up for a plant tour. Communication is improving, but it is still leaps and bounds behind any other place I’ve worked. Management isn’t ever on the same page, so we are never given accurate info Very bad PTO. I’ve been here more than half a decade and only get 3 weeks. Max out at 4 weeks. No rollover. 401k match is 4% (kinda… it’s 100% match on your first 2% and 50% match on up to the following 4%). You have to put in 6% to get a 4% match. Vest period is poor. 20% at 2 years, 40% at 3 years, 60% at 4 years, 80% at 5 years, and 100% at 6 years. Machines are old. Constant breakdowns and not many maintenance guys. You often are able to handle maintenance issues better than maintenance guys on your machine. Maintenance guys aren’t bad- they just don’t have enough guys or enough training. There is a lot of tension between the guys out here. Management does not care. Production floor is ethnically diverse, but the office staff is not. Pretty much only men out here, but they don’t turn away women by any means. Just how it happens to be.
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