Traylor Bros. Reviews

Turn over of senior leadership in last 2 or 3 years has had a marked impact on culture. And they love marketing their culture. But they lost a good amount of the grey hairs that created that culture and called younger people up from farm system to fill the role... Perhaps too few, perhaps too young, perhaps wrong mindset. Don't know that for sure. Just know that ideas like cooperation and teamwork have been quietly replaced by a focus on competition. Younger leaders are very ambitious. Not terribly wise. In the last year your hear competition out of their mouths a lot. It's created an environment where people horde information, hide stuff from each other to protect their own position. Generally just making everybody a little more paranoid. It isn't hard to imagine that in five years this place will become another meat grinder like Kiewit with little regional lords ruling over fiefdoms. Doesn't help that they've cut the bonus program to the bone and been stepping back benefits every year.... while the ownership is buying themselves private jets and second homes.

Maybe it is the mining industry trend, but people at this job were very disrespectful to each other. Besides the vulgar language, there was no teamwork involved while working on the field. On the management site, there were no or very little training was given to the new engineers. There was no acknowledgment or motivation for doing any good work, but if a mistake was found, then the person would definitely be notified. The work place wasn't very diverse. The majority of the workers were Caucasian, especially from the Midwest. The management didn't care very much for the well being of their employees, but rather use them without any remorse. Maybe that's why, 60% of the employee left the company at the end of the project, including 4 engineers and the project manager on the job. (Which was almost all of the engineers on that project). From what I've heard, this company usually have 2 years employee turn around, which says a lot about them. The salary and benefits of this company were decent compared to other construction company, but the job didn't provide a good work/life balance.