Dairy Farmers of America Employee Reviews

While I appreciated the opportunities to learn and contribute, I noticed that certain employees received more attention and oversight than others. This micromanagement, even toward favored team members, sometimes limited creativity and slowed decision-making.

Very demanding with little recognition, but good compensation.

Great and a wonderful company to be employed with.

Good company that works to serve its farmer owners.

Consistently understaffed, budgets being spent on equipment and machines that end up not being used enough to justify the cost. Poor leadership shown by the shift supervisors, punishing staff for sitting too much and removing chairs/raising desks despite our working 12-hour shifts. Needs improvement

Farmer focus and wealth of knowledge

My manager is fair. Tough and expects alot, but gives you the tools to do the job. The question he asks alot is what do you need from me to accomplish this task

Bright, hard working people with a passion for the industry.

They are not responsive to employees

For being with the company over a decade for the first time people are treated fairly this is in the past few months.

Stop rushing so much. I understand supply chain issues in light of the world's current circumstances, but the stress from the higher ups rolls down hill. If we are behind on production, stop rushing CIPs, blends, first-off samples etc. because you are ultimately making it worse and easier for error.

Protecting their employees and keeping them safe

Schedule a 3 shifts that work 8 hours with at least 1 day off. Would be a start. Then fire ALL current supervisors. They are just doing enough paper work to get by.

Understand roles and clear communication

Communicate and hire enough help to handle the work load they take on

Review from Operations Dept

The pay the medical coverage

Salary is very competitive locally.

It get the bills paid and keeps my wife happy

The best part about my conversation package was really Panama because our land of what I was not knowing and what I was living is something that I was looking for a plan and this is what I got for today and I will be with it for a while if I got a job that's all this is awesome for tonight and for

Very attractive bonus and the 401k is decent

Better investment options maybe have broker handling plan to add money market account to 401k plan

Health Insurance is very poor for such a large company. High Premiums and still required to pay too much out of pocket compared to others in the industry. up to 20k a year for a family

Pay scale incentive. Seniority pay scale needed

Add more money to the pay

Raise the current pay rate to $25 an hour. Higher temporary workers at $18 an hour. With 5 yearly progression raises.

The employees and supervisors run everything if we lost a handful of them the place would fall apart

We have fun, but can lock it down to focus on resolving issues safely and effectively when needed.

Many topics and everything is done right

Dedicated, Engaged and truly care about the business

We all work well together and try to keep each other in a positive state of mind even though management doesn't appreciate the sacrifices of the employees.

Drive to make the place better

More help would be a start. Working the same people 12 hours every day cost you more money in injuries & broken equipment.

We have employees that have been there for 2 months that are training new hires, are trainers were trained by newbies, and our equipment and Dairys reflected it. They pay somebody off the street $2 less than somebody that's been there for 30 years, very sad. What incentive is there to stay.

Fueling and cleaning trucks, communicating milk levels, mechanical issues, road impediments and closures and everyone being willing to help not just a small few.

The supervisor is allowing workplace violence.

The people I work around

Communication and relationship has worked with relationship it's a good relationship result as a good team work and it also resolved as a magician between the community and where we belong that is how a 100% become 100% of anything you're right accurate so well anyways many people do not understand

The coworkers and supervisors that are there genuinely want to make a change for the better and see the company succeed like it did before the upper management changed.

Everybody gets along for the most part, which is important at a job.

I would say just the overall experience of customers, good challenges, and the team we have make up a good environment so w3 can have fun doing our job.

Supervisors who care about us

8 hour work shifts. More people to cover sick employees & vacation leaves.

There is no culture currently

They are running people in the ground at the Frederick location people are tired underpaid and well over worked

Review from Operations Dept

New management we got bad

Meeting several employees and the tour. My hiring manager shared a compelling vision.

Everything was great and easy to understand

They take you around and show what you will be doing

It was a very personal and pleasant experience.

The honesty. I was forewarned that the job was not for everybody, and often new hires quit within the first few months. They said there was a learning curve, but once you got settled things would be alright. They were true to their word for the most part and I appreciate it

Need to hire employees 21 & over for plant jobs only. Must have at least 1 child. Need to have some kind of work experience of 1 year in any industry fast food, shipping, or delivery.

I believe they expect to much for what they pay

Review from Operations Dept

Make sure who you are hiring can actually shift a truck but maybe it's not a big thing throwing in clutches because your new hires don't know how to drive

During interview offered a higher paying job. Then said we never said that. Lies.

Review from Product Dept

Small town, don't have known drug dealers doing management interviews

When I'm not micromanaged by my manager.

The climate control systems everywhere

Seeing my team happy and being successful

The people. When everything is running smooth and on time, the job is enjoyable

Fridays are the best, look forward to the weekend

Payment terms and getting vendors paid is a very cumbersome process

Inbound delivery is on delay to be unloaded. Outbound shipping is on delay because of broken equipment that does not have spare parts. This causes shipping supply shortages.

Have milk haulers that respect equipment and their dairies and the dairies locations property

No work on the week ends we work some time 6 days no time with family

You can ask HR to protect their employees