Students - Good pay for hard work - Student Production Associate Ball Corporation Employee Review

3.0
Jul 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Worked the summer as a student. You get lots of opportunity for overtime, which can be double pay for a 12 hour shift on holidays. Possibility for long/frequent breaks, depending on how many incidences happen per shift, especially on nights. There are some great guys who are fathers who will stick up for you and help you out, you’ll figure out who the best people to ask questions are. Family day in the summer is fun. If you can put up with the manual labour and doing grunt work the full time staff doesn’t want to do, it’s a fine gig. You work a few 12 hour shifts in a row, then get a few days off, unless you take overtime.

Cons

Hot as heck, all the time. Super loud too. If you don’t like being sweaty and wearing earplugs & earmuffs for hours at a time, this would not be the place to work. Kind of hard to make friends since it’s loud. Might be hard to work here if you’re a girl due to there being like 4 women and 30 men, but I never heard of anything weird happening to the girls, most of the guys were helpful when they needed to be. I didn’t go back because pay was not increasing proportionate to the full time staff, despite often doing more work than a lot of them. After working multiple 12 hour days in a row, especially nights, it can be really hard on your body.

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 21, 2026
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Pros

There isn't a difficult job in the building. The pay is good for the area, especially since most of the positions don't require any specialized training before hiring in.

Cons

Some of the chemicals used throughout the plant, will cause irritation. Some on your skin, some in your airways. Mandatory overtime is the most annoying part of this work environment. The work schedule is 4 on, 4 off, however, you find out late in your shift on your 2nd day working if you will be forced any overtime during your days off (you can be forced up to 2 of your 4 days off). There are also conversion and maintnencance days that are mandatory overtime, in addition to the forced production overtime days. While these days add a nice chunk of change to your paycheck, they make it extremely difficult to plan ANYTHING.

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