Langan Engineering and Environmental Services Reviews

Pros

Everything is great here, the environment is friendly, the Human resources department creates excellent events and activities to rise up the interest to participate on voluntary events.

Cons

there is nothing to say

Pros

Well respected and highly qualified engineers. Fair compensation and benefits.

Cons

Some of the project managers have very little respect for the staff engineers and does not care about their professional growth. Too much focus on billable hours and shaming the staff engineers for making mistakes.

Advice to Management

Educate the project managers so that they are not "ordering" their staff engineers but rather mentoring them.

Pros

Foot in the door. Learn alot if you plan on staying billable and opportunities are there for growth, but you have to push for it.

Cons

Upper Management may not be in the same office, so when decisions to be made they may not be present to answer and then later blame you for what was decided.

Advice to Management

Be present and stop worrying about your own financial ambitions. Worry about making a cohesive team and training them up.

Pros

Interesting work and motivated staff.

Cons

Fast paced can be hard to meet goals.

Pros

Staff-level colleagues are very helpful and good people - I made some lifelong friends. The projects are huge but the role of environmental is not. The office is very nice.

Cons

Everybody is overworked and asked to do more. A common theme is that project budgets are "tight" and so PMs routinely ask staff to perform a task in much less than the actual required time. When the staff goes over the allotted time, the PM will typically indicate that the overage is due to the staff's 'inexperience' and cannot be billed, essentially asking the staff to work for free. It is apparent that there is a...

Advice to Management

Learn to live with less profit on employee's hours. The billing rates are high and the proposed hours to complete project scope seem to be artificially lowered to win the job. It is not fair to push the burden down to the staff.

Pros

education opportunities enabled me to perfect my CAD drawing skills

Cons

I looked at my boss and thought, is that what I want to be doing in 5 years? The answer was no.

Pros

- Work on high-profile projects - Paid overtime - Good healthcare for singles - Passionate colleagues - Entrepreneurial (If you want to advance, it won't be handed to you. You need to show initiative and look for opportunities be more involved, i.e. joining local groups/clubs, networking, developing strong relationships while performing field work, create actionable plan with supervisor for advancement) - Staff level...

Cons

- I would like to see a higher 401k match, they only match up to 3%. - Company can be top heavy depending on office location (may be stuck as an inspector or staff level for some time) - No matter what you do in your office, sometimes there is no space to advance to project level due to too many managers and not enough work to justify a new project level position. This is 100% location specific, so be open to moving...

Pros

Great Community and amazing benefits

Cons

Work can be sporadic at times