Good Benefits, Hard Work - Field Engineer Mortenson Employee Review

3.0
17 Apr 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The compensation for traveling employees is excellent. "Rotations" can be nice, this is when you get a few extra days off every few weeks. (Setup varies between work groups.) Meet lots of people/see areas you may have never been before. Ability to feel like you are doing something important. Lots of supportive people mixed in. Great resume booster. Company wants you to advance. Lots of work in the renewable groups.

Cons

Depending on the project/group work hours can get rough. My project routinely worked 10 hr shifts 6 days a week with the engineers expected to be there an extra hour or two past when the field workers were there. Solar and wind project tends to be in rural areas which can add a lengthy commute on top. Gay/Trans topics were treated as a joke among my team onsite. You need to have tough skin if you are queer and in the field. I also witnessed some comments I would consider racist. Corporate main office culture is vastly different from field culture. Management in my group shifted a good bit while I was there and turnover among engineers is high. Company only wants you to advance where/when they need you, not necessarily where you want to go.

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Cons

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Pros

- Huge company with a lot of resources. - Cool projects.

Cons

- Pay is not great especially for the amount of hours they want you to put in. - They do not pay for experience. So, it’s a good place to start, but if you have experience, go somewhere else. - They hire and promote way too quickly which means inexperienced people are in charge. - If you work in the field, you will be putting in 50-60 hours a week often and they justify it by saying you get subsistence. Do the math, you’re not getting paid very well at those hours even with subsistence. Also subsistence is a benefit for traveling, not justification for overusing employees. - While a lot of the people are good, it is a very political atmosphere.

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