Help wanted: Plastics processors scramble to fill positions

Champion Plastics was recently mentioned in an article by Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing Magazine discussing the current challenges with plastics processors to fill positions.    The article commented on activities Champion’s management does to promote a positive corporate culture.   As a result, Champion Plastics boasts an impressive average employee tenure of 10 years.

“At Champion Plastics Inc., members of management joined employees on the line when the Auburn Hills, Mich., company required all workers to temporarily work overtime and weekends. For workers, the experience led to one unexpected benefit — managers who sat on chairs while performing duties on the plant floor found they were so uncomfortable they immediately bought new ones, according to a company LinkedIn post. In addition, Matt McDermott, the company’s director of operations regularly buys employees lunch and has surprised them with gift cards; employees even spent one Friday afternoon together at a lake.”