Interfor reviews

No work/life balance. Long hours for lower/mid level salary folks like sawmill supervision (65 - 70+ hrs per week). Tons of initiatives piled on low/mid level management with no real support, "just do it" mentality. No respect for many good experienced employees from acquired mills, the Interfor Way is the only way. Way too many managers from corporate visiting mills that don't know what is really going on in a mill. A manager of everything you can think of from corporate would come to mill to point out what was wrong, but no clear instruction on how to improve or no tools provided to do it with. High turnover at all levels. Little regard for anyone at the mill level.

Consistent high/mid level leadership turnover, mark it on your calendar every 6 months/year. Shoot from the hip mentality, lack of communication between executive, general managers, mill managers, to mid-level managers. Mills operating with Silo mentality, rather than a large business. Production focus forgets that this is also a business. Waste is plentiful, planning is lacking. Focus on day to day production numbers, lacking thought for sustainability. Treated as Sawmills, and best manufacturing practices/processes often overlooked. Canadian/Northwest Bias. For a company this size lacks leadership focused on long term sustainability using the correct people/processes and low cost combination that will keep the company competitive over the next 10-20 years.