Pros
-Benefits package is solid enough. -I've met some very talented and compassionate people while working here.
Cons
- The whole project has very serious communication issues. Everything gets postponed because mechanics or field supervisors claim they need something and ask to have it delivered immediately. But then a few days before the machine gets delivered, someone else will discover that the project is missing a permit, or the crew will find that they don't have the right safety gear, or the management will reject the job proposal and ask for changes before the job can start, etc. Then the delivery gets delayed for a week, or a month, or two months, or however long it takes for all the correct steps to be taken. The responsibilities of both postponing the deliveries and acquiring the permits usually fell on myself, and these tasks ended up wasting a lot of my time that could have been spent solving other problems. - Lots of people either leave or get fired very frequently. Sometimes one of the good managers will be sent away to a different construction project, other times a bunch of laborers will be "let go" because the project is wasting a lot of money and needs to cut back. As a result, a lot of work gets dropped on a lot of new people, and sometimes those new people end up leaving before they even get a handle on their work. Quite a few people end up learning their jobs from scratch. - Company HQ in Spain does a lot of micromanaging. For example, if a document sent to them has so much as a single word corrected with Wite-Out, they will demand that the document be reprinted, re-signed, re-scanned, and re-sent all over again (this becomes especially frustrating when the documents need to be signed by a manager who recently left on vacation in Spain or Germany for 3 weeks, or an executive who is only in the office once per week). When the project inevitably begins wasting more time and money adhering to these kinds of rules, Company HQ in Spain will then demand the project spend more time conducting investigations into why the project wastes so much time and money before eventually enacting more rules. - Equipment Department is poorly managed. Some members of the leadership have a bad temper that led to some fits of rage (slamming hands on keyboards and desks, threats to fire people for otherwise harmless errors, shouting matches with subcontractors, etc.). Leadership of this department does a lot of micromanaging and tries to micromanage other departments as well. The department’s hours were scheduled to be from 7am to 6pm (1-hour lunch in the middle), but members would frequently get dirty looks or a lecture if they didn’t stay until at least 6:15pm. I was scolded for trying to solve problems that weren’t assigned to me, and I was also scolded for not solving problems explicitly assigned to other people. I was wrongly accused of doing something bad a couple of times, and this only happened because the department leadership didn’t correctly read a report that was given to them. I’ve relayed my concerns with the leadership to Corporate HQ (in NYC, not Spain), but they haven’t done anything about it, as far as I’m aware. - Onboarding/hiring process was dishonest. Hiring team mentioned repeatedly that this position would be ‘standard 40 hours per week’ and some paperwork I received also mentioned the same ‘standard 40-hour week’. On my first day at work I find out that I’m working from 7am to 6pm every day, not including any extra time I would have to stay after work to finish up other tasks and the time I spent getting ready in the morning and traveling to/from the office. Furthermore, I signed up to a co-op program that I was told would let me change to different job sites after a year if I wanted to try something new. However, when I began looking into other job sites to move to, the project managers of each of the sites I looked at all told me that they would not be accepting any more employees in the development program. The choice to rotate to other job sites wasn't up to me at all. - Company gave me a cell phone for work. The original cell phone number I got was taken out of commission because the company decided to stop paying the bill for that number (without telling me). After filing a complaint with IT, the company gave me a new number that used to belong to some employees that had since left the company. The cell phone’s previous owners gave the number to some telemarketers, so I received hundreds of spam calls and texts while I had it. This phone also had porn saved on it from one of its previous owners, because no one within the company performed a factory reset before giving it to other employees and later myself.