CH2M Reviews

Pros

Work life balance, benefits, colleagues, highly ethical

Pros

Excellent technical experience in the right team. Good leadership overall in most areas.

Pros

Good People with a wealth of technical experience in the field they work in.
A large global reach to leverage expertise from.

Advice to Management

Work out quickly what you are doing and where you will do it and set a path.
Acknowledge that most of the answers are not actually in Denver.

Pros

There are many, just not feeling them right now. This latest restructure has been a woefully executed process. Change happens, it's often not fun but necessary. How you implement change is a leadership litmus test. A test this CEO and executive have failed.

Advice to Management

Denver exec and board, you seem to be blinded by tenure and cronyism, these friendships and loyalties perpetuated the ugly traits which have held this company back from realizing its potential to grow. Some of these respected elders are the blockers to change.
The execution of this restructuring has taken you all along way from the values and culture of being respectful, compassionate, collaborative and positive. Your behavior and actions have been disrespectful, secretive, exclusionary, subversive and judging by the lack of CLC and Denver based exec removal, low on your own accountability. Shame on you for allowing Bain to take you so far away from the behavioral heart of what this company prided itself on.

Here's hoping you can win back the trust of staff in time to realize the growth you need to save the company.

Pros

Good fellow workers and worldwide opportunities.

Advice to Management

Reduce red tape policies and procedures cut out the crap. Make the company more efficient and manage the work or risks rather than avoid it.

Pros

The Pros are not very special than others.

Advice to Management

Cut all the unnecessary management layers to get more active and efficiency performance. Also layoff all old dogs in management as they are off the market trend or promote more real engineering into management (not lawyers or accountants)

Who cares PEP or human resources training ? Don't understand why HR got so much power in the engineering business, it wasting so many hours, money and training on these useless performance review.

Pros

It is unfortunate that CH2M HILL has not acted quickly to remove the business ethics and practices of former Halcrow Group Directors and Senior Executives with the ANZ business as the impression is that overall CH2M HILL internationally has a good employee culture.

Advice to Management

ANZ Halcrow Group Management - Sack yourself!

Pros

Some of the best and brightest co-workers that I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Deep technical expertise in the company. Flexible work policies (teleworking, work hours not set in stone, etc.)

Advice to Management

Stop trying to steer the ship from a distance and utilize local managers who are connected to the projects in particular offices.

Pros

I already work many of place. Now i am interested to work under company.

Advice to Management

Work according to the management. Never make own decisions on site. First discuss with engineers then make 1 decision.

Pros

Corporate environment, entrepreneurial setting
In-house, self-directed, uncompensated educational program available

Advice to Management

"Sourly" billing may be good for the bottom line but not for corporate culture. Either provide a standard salary or guaranteed work hours that will be compensated.