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Great co-workers, clueless management
Food Services (Current Employee), Surmont 2 – May 19, 2013
Pros: great co-workers
Cons: low pay, work conditions, clueless management
This company should get out of the O&M of work/construction camps. Leave it to the companies that actually know how to run it! The hours are typical for the oil&gas industry but the rotations are very long (21/7). Middle and upper management have no idea what is actually required for the successful operation of their facility. Everything is run by budget/spread – more... sheets. Facility runs in spite of its poor management due to the overworked staff. Turnover is very high due to low pay, lack of respect and heavy workload. Morale is extremely low. – less
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Good Compensation, Professionally Challlenging
Project Engineer Electrical (Former Employee), Calgary, Canada – April 9, 2013
Pros: professionally good work place
Cons: managment is weak
Good Company professionally but Management is little weak.
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Wonderful Intern Program, Great place to work over all.
Auto Cad Drafter (Former Employee), Baytown, TX – February 7, 2013
Typical day started with donuts. Fun start to our work day, however I gain a few pounds there. Work and consisted of 10 hour days.
I learned the I & E process for Exxon Mobil.
Supervisor worked great with all of the interns. They gave us plenty of work and overtime was optional.
The hardest part of the job was leaving after the internship was completed.
The – more... most enjoyable part of the job was learn the Cad system along with other and learning form each other mistakes as well as their accomplishments. – less
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Busy
HSE Supervisor/Trainer (Current Employee), Anchorage, AK – January 5, 2013
Work site keeps us very busy. Everyone works together for the safety of the employees. I enjoy getting to do walk around inspections and getting to see all the different trades working together.
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Production, focus
Sr Piping Designer (Former Employee), Houston, TX – December 26, 2012
Pros: flexible hours, project challenges, employees
Cons: travel distance
Projects are a desirable challenge, always changing to better meet the customers needs.
My process, mechanical skills are always in demand for this and other positions.
Management keeps a flexible environment to maintain the safe and timely project schedule.
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Stay away!
Project Manager (Former Employee), Rochester, NY – December 18, 2012
Pros: can't think of any
Cons: too much to list
Management makes empty promises to the client which they know they can't fulfill. They hire poorly qualified people to lead their projects groups. Management has no qualms about crossing ethical lines.
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corneliusapplebottom10 – January 3, 2013

i am a current worker w snc. i damaged a personal drill at work and they refused to replace it because it wasnt in the budget due to the managements year end bonuses coming up around that time. no regard for the workers or their safety.its all about money to these guys.they would not order new parts to replace old parts.instead they would have me search the buildings on site for old used parts.i was rushed through most jobs causing near misses and potential high risk situations.they hire kids off the street to do jobs that typically would require certification.i dunno how they get away with it but this is where our tax dollars are spent. thanks. hope this helps.

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Lack of consistent projects to maintain workforce
HR Manager/Administrator (Former Employee), Houston, TX – October 29, 2012
Pros: flexible work-week for some areas
Cons: lack of overall adherence to company policies and procedures
There is no such thing as a typical day at work but I performed orientations, benefits administration, employee relations, explained policies,procedures and emplyment law on a daily basis. I have learned to manage my time effectively since I was the only HR person for 8 years and to put in whatever time is needed to get the job done. The hardest part – more... of the job is trying to do everything without assistance. The most enjoyable part of the job was assisting the employees and working with the benefits selection.. – less
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Not too Shabby!
HSE Inspector (Current Employee), Freeport, TX – October 28, 2012
Pros: good pay and benefits
Cons: working for samsung.
Depending on the needs of the project, we worked anything from 5/10s to 7/12s. I learned to never work on a Samsung Engineering project anywhere ever again. The SNC-Lavalin management onsite treated us great and had our backs against the Samsung management who saw us "as cattle" (a quote from one of the Samsung employees). The hardest part of the job – more... was reconciling between multiple different safety regulations. The most enjoyable part of the job was getting to see employees go home safe everyday. – less
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Great work environment with friendly staff
Oil & Gas Industrial Drafter (Former Employee), Houston, TX – August 7, 2012
Pros: example: free lunches, etc.
Cons: example: short breaks, healthcare, etc.
A great place to work with everyone friendly and knowledgeable, helping each other out.
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Culturally diverse, dynamic - T&D
Former (Former Employee), Calgary – May 26, 2012
Pros: social events, networking and learning from peers
Cons: matrix organization (assigned to different projects) and high staff turnover
You will like a culturally diverse, knowledge company with people you can learn from (if you are not shy to ask)

Not for the career ambitious who want to quickly go up the ladder

Not for the not-hard-worker as expect to work on multiple projects at various phases (you can earn the same in other companies but with long lead projects)
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Good working environment
Procurement Administrative Assistant (Former Employee), Calgary, AB – May 15, 2013
Pros: work/life balance
Cons: bad reputation
Great people at SNC, made many friends. The work was interesting, learned lots about EPC.
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Challenging Job
Construction supervisor (Former Employee), Cambridge Bay Area, NWT – May 8, 2013
Pros: challenging project site
Cons: needed more support staff
-Typical day
for construction of mine construction camp and site infrastructure including: residence buildings, roads, airstrip with navigational aids, earthworks, blasting, fuel storage tanks\piping and containment and dispensing, power generation and distribution, potable water and sewage piping and treatment installations, structural steel and concrete. – more... Also perform QC of works.
• Direct\assist construction trade forces• Ensure workers follow safety procedures and training
• Ensure Owner owned equipment is fully certified for use and arrange for qualified service technicians
• Attend daily construction meetings and participate in site training programs
• Inspection construction works and ensure Contractors submit as-constructed data, testing and QC information
• Assist Engineering Design with submission of site information.
• Submit daily progress\site issue report to Project and Construction Managers.
• Resolve site construction issues and problems

-What I Learned
Persistence gets the job done

-Management
Team effort works better

-Co-workers
Everybody needs to be on the same work page every day

-Hardest Part of the Job
Everybody understanding constraints of working in remote and isolated environments

-Most Enjoyable Part Of this Job
My work is Completed – less
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Great engineering experience at the project level
Engineering Assistant (Former Employee), Toronto, ON – May 8, 2013
Pros: weekly health and safety meetings, lunch and learn meetings, free coffee and juice, ergonomic work environment
Cons: only worked there for four months during the summer
I had the opportunity last summer to work at SNC-Lavalin as an engineering assistant. When I got there, there were several learning modules on the computers to help me learn more about the company, and projects that SNC was involved in. From this experience, I was able to learn how an engineering firm worked at the project management level. I created – more... workflow diagrams and online modules for sections such as change management, lessons learned, and health and safety. I can definitely say that the engineering industry is very "procedural" based, as there are numerous types of workflows for documents in each department. The work environment itself was also amazing. All the employees were fantastic, there were interesting meetings going on every week for employees to apply and learn new things (such as ergonomics 101, help for creating a report, etc), health and safety meetings every week to keep us on our toes, and the office had ergonomic furniture and lighting too (very good for the eyes and back). The hardest part I'd have to say is adjusting to it at the very beginning. I never had a chance to work at an office and was piled with lots of work from time to time. Skills that I have transferred into my portfolio would be communication, time management, organization, problem solving and leadership skills. – less
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Good place to work, global company
Senior Buyer (Current Employee), Toronto, ON – April 15, 2013
Pros: good place to work
Cons: project based company, no projects no work
A good company to work for, a global organization with a compensation package.
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very fast paced environment
Sr. Administrative Assistant to Vice-President (Former Employee), Mount Pearl, NL – March 26, 2013
Pros: friendly environment - face paced - people oriented
Cons: contractual position
enjoyed the many challenges presented to me in my position of senior admin, however working within a contractual position was unsure when my position would be finished.
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co-workers made the work enjoyable, short staff led to excessive disorganization
General Helper (Former Employee), Fort McMurray, AB – March 18, 2013
Pros: great food and lodging
Cons: long hours, longer than normal to get the work done
I found the workload very heavy at times when I was working as it was short staff with high turnover rates which made getting accustomed to a routine difficult to do.
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5 Stars company
Senior Project Manager (Current Employee), Oakville, Ontario – January 15, 2013
- Solid company, nice teams, good place to work, excellent benefits, interesting & challenging work
- Negotiate with the Client SNC SWO's (service work orders): define the scope and the cost associated with our activities, help the discipline leads & engineers to define their scope of work, define deliverables and estimate the right amount of engineering – more... hours needed, obtain the Client acceptance for the SWO's.
- Team building and create a healthy (& pleasant) team work environment, conflict resolution, etc.
- Stage Gate meetings: play an active role in the decision making process ("kill" or "go" decision).
- Active part of project construction & commissioning: lead the team, vendors and stakeholders, support construction & engineering teams the field activities.
- Initiate, organize, facilitate & participate in problem solving process during all project phases (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control and closure). – less
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Turmoil
Senior Project Manager (Former Employee), Ottawa, ON – November 29, 2012
Undergone poorly managed change, compounded with an understanding that advancement only possible if allied with right people.

Immediate managers have since been removed and I understand that the work environment, ethics and culture has improved significantly.
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Beautiful Camp Surmont II, Poor management, lack of respect for employees, negative morale makes this a bad company to work for
Guest Services (Former Employee), Surmont II – November 27, 2012
Pros: great hardworking people outside of the management
Cons: work the people too hard, no appreciation for hard work, always expect better, do not run the camp in a professional manner
Management is very disorganize and very dishonest to the employees. There is a low morale because of the poor treatment and respect of the employee. Understandable why the Union is being invited by the employees. Lack of living quarters onsite, busing workers to camps up to 1 hour away daily is very unacceptable. Co-workers overall are very hard working – more... good people who deserve better. Everybody is very scared of being terminated. Workers' are being terminated with no notice or no valid reason. Surmont II camp is a beautiful camp. Would like to continue to work at the camp, if another Facilitator were to take over the contract. Believe it is only a matter of time until this becomes a reality. – less
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Colleen – December 18, 2012

I too can attest to the exact comment worked one rotation and have nom idea how they get away with treating employees with such a lack of respect and expectations that u work till u drop I too had to be bussed in to surmont and also was going to go to manager on my first day to inform them the work load was unacceptable but was told if I do they would fire me. I stuck it out for my 21 days and high tailed it out of there I feel for the workers that have no choice to put up with the treatment

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Very poor
1st cook (Former Employee), Surmont lodge 2 – November 20, 2012
Cons: unorginized
Hired 18 new hires then laid off everyone and all they did was put us up in a hotel room for the night stay away from this place there trying to bust the union go local 47 :)
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SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. (SNC-Lavalin) is a Canada-based company. The Company is engaged in providing engineering, construction, – Read more

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