Pros
High starting pay for the area. In my first year, I made about 74k (including overtime), and there's enough overtime that you can easily clear 100k a year just working the floor. Incredible pay for a non-degree-holding individual. The benefits are also pretty good. The people you work with on a day-to-day basis are great!
Cons
There's a standard pay increase at your 1st and 2nd anniversary, but the pay is capped at the 2-year pay increase. After that, you never get another raise, apart from an annual cola increase. People who've been working there for 15+ years make the same as someone who's only been there 2 years. They expect their employees to do an insane amount of work during their shifts, often assigning additional tasks that are unrealistic in their achievement. The site is purposely run "lean". This increases the workload for the current employees. You can expect zero work-life balance, mandatory overtime is an absolute guarantee and you will work OT every week. The extra work exhausts people and there are several people who go out on short-term/long-term disability each year for work-related accidents mostly caused by exhaustion and the inability to allow your body to recover and rest during a weekend. Very rarely does management hire/promote from within. People who are career-minded and would like to move up within Sherwin are held back. During my time there I watched countless well-qualified people get passed over in favor of an outside hire who was generally less qualified and knowledgeable than those from within the company who applied for those positions. This is somewhat of a recent shift given that most of the senior leadership once worked on the manufacturing floor. There's a lack of loyalty from management to the employees. They come at any issue as if you're guilty before they even look into what actually occurred. There are members of management who actively look for reasons (and will create them if they can't find any) to discipline employees. However, they can and will turn a blind eye to any misdoings of one of their own. There have been multiple reports made of an inappropriate relationship between someone on the leadership team with a team member on the floor. A relationship that is in direct violation of the company's ethical code of conduct, yet after an "investigation" it was found there was no wrongdoing, and the two individuals still openly engage inappropriately with one another on the manufacturing floor. Full disclosure, I am a former employee who was proud to work at Sherwin, and proud of the products we made, and would have loved to make a full career with Sherwin. All of these concerns are ones I brought up time and again with management. My 2023 year-end review was stellar, but an excuse was made to fire me, ultimately because I had an opinion and wasn't afraid to share it and actively encouraged my peers to share their opinions and concerns with management.