MasTec Utility Services
Nice place to work
Operator (Former Employee) – Pacific, MO – September 14, 2018
Laid off no intentions on leaving. great bunch of guys to work for .summer hours were all you wanted..took very good care of us as a whole..good equipment and tools provided and replaced as needed..weeks vacation after a year of service
Pros
Hours
Cons
Sometimes no lunch
Pay gap
Underground Lineman (Current Employee) – Asheboro, NC – September 3, 2018
There is a huge pay gap between overhead and underground. Underground gets treated worse. But does the same amount of work with the similar hazards. You do not work in the rain, which mean you dont get paid.
Pros
Storm work
Cons
No days off for the first year, dont expected steady raises, common workplace harassment, when it rains you dont make money.
Hard work, but outdoors and rewarding.
Lineman Apprentice (Current Employee) – Wilmington, NC – August 28, 2018
If you're not interested in sitting behind a desk or flipping burgers in a kitchen, instead getting outside and providing people with the utilities they need to enjoy life this is a great job for you. You'll meet and become part of a great family, team and workforce that is dedicated to putting in the hard work, diligence, bravery and effort that is required to be a professional lineman. Overhead or underground, you will be gratified.
hired as a truck driver
Truck Driver Class A / Grounds man (Current Employee) – Sebring, FL – August 10, 2018
I was hired as a truck driver but I'm also locating cable digging for under ground lines cable, gas, water and sewage sometimes there is only 3 people on the job site and 8 people in the office doing nothing and getting paid well. In the summer time it is extremely hot I have CDL's I can do better.
Horrible
Office Assistant (Former Employee) – Tampa – August 1, 2018
Unless you are friends with the manager, you will not get anywhere. I made many complaints of an associate that was there, but because the best friend was the manager, I was fired, but it was ok for this grown woman to start fights and even have videos of it, and nothing got done of it horrible place to work.
its a job
Groundsman (Current Employee) – Cary, NC – June 29, 2018
Don't waist your time. They will lie to you. They do not pay the same as other power companies. Still works on the good old boy system. unless your an old white male your not going to get far.
Pros
decent pay
Cons
Not a great company
Labor, Poor place to work
Laborer (Former Employee) – Corpus Christi, TX – June 8, 2018
I would not recommend anyone to work there. The management will give a good story about how the company is then drop the bomb.pay sucks why to low ,that you can't even afford the benefits, so you get sick ,there goes ur small pay check.seen workers work there more than three years and still getting low pay no raises. Labors get blame for all problems that happens .They will tell you mas tec is the biggest Hispanic employment ,now i know why. Over all worst place to work.
Pros
None
Cons
Low pay, bad management
MasTec is by far the worst corporate culture example in the history of corporate America, you are better off living under a communist regime.
Construction Manager (Current Employee) – Miami, FL – June 7, 2018
Management by directive. Intimidation and fear tactics for productivity, ignorant peers, uneducated and disconnected senior management, no real direction, long days if you are one of the productive managers, no sense of culture at all, a true blue collar environment with no respect or human decency. This is a great place to work if you are a mindless drone and don't care about growth or career advancement. I knew by day two that I had made a serious career mistake in believing the spew of lies regarding the mission of the division. On the job 23 days, and the division losses the project to a competitor. Well, after 6 months of not providing a single deliverable to the customer, you would lose the project to a competitor too. Inept, uneducated, egomaniacal, uncultured morons is what you would surround yourself with if you chose to commit career suicide by working here... go to a real company instead. I left after 23 days to work for a real world class utility services group. It was like leaving McDonalds... no future long term, unless you enjoy the smell of fast food and no career advancement.
Pros
Pretty Logo
Cons
Just about everything else.
Unprofessional, and as shady as they get.
CDL driver and Locator (Former Employee) – Austin, TX – April 10, 2018
They promise you everything you can imagine just to get you in the door. Once you're locked in, things begin to change drastically. People working in the field have 10X the knowledge of what's going on than the ones in charge. Little to no organization, complete lack of direction. The division I worked for was literally kicked out of the city for destroying so many existing utilities, and personal property. The few who stayed on were told they could relocate to other parts of the country. This place is a joke.
Pros
Pay is decent
Cons
Lies, lies and more lies...
Lack of skilled managers
Warehouse Worker (Former Employee) – Vanceboro, NC – March 21, 2018
Not all are horrible but the manager that make decisions were not the best at being managers. No one listens to the employees and there is no room for advancement or pay raises. The work environment is one of the worst I have ever worked in and it doesnt help that they dont care about your family or personal needs.
Pros
pay was good
Cons
rough to work in the conditions
Beware of Winter Garden
Utility Worker (Current Employee) – Winter Garden, FL – January 21, 2018
Winter Garden is the worst division to work at. No raises, and a lot of people are quitting and no one new coming thru the door. Try the power division in Orlando
Pros
Donuts at tuesday meetings
Cons
A lot of confusion from the top on down
MasTec
Project Controls Manager (Former Employee) – Woodbury, MN – January 17, 2018
A long day 10+ hours, with a lot of meetings. Learned what a tele-communications utility contractor does. Management was fast paced with a lot of interfacing with client. Quiet place to work isolated from other office staff. Not understanding what the position required and driving to office location. Learning a new construction business and working with management and staff good people!
Laid back yet stressful
Administrative Assistant (Current Employee) – Hampton, VA – January 5, 2018
There was a lack of communication within this company. I enjoyed my immediate supervisor, she was fabulous and I will always thank her for everything she did for me. It was the upper management that had issues.
Ok place to work
Underground Foreman (Former Employee) – Raleigh, NC – January 4, 2018
The work at mastec is no joke it is a get her done kinda of job for the ruff neck kind of workers not no cup cakes. It has a good bunch of people when teamed up together the pay sucks and can be better the management can do better if not the people in the field the company would not be where it is at and I guess the management has a part to do with that too.
Unhealthy Environment
Billing Specialist (Former Employee) – Woodbury, MN – December 3, 2017
If you like to be put down and harassed by co-workers on a daily basis than this would be the place to work. And if you complain, you are told that it was your choice to work in the construction industry and that is part of the culture. Thing is, this is a finance only office. No construction workers or blue collar employees at all.
Entire management line left the company
Program Manager, Outside Plant Engineering (Current Employee) – Portsmouth, VA – November 27, 2017
Entire management line left the company, replacements kept being relocated, appears this line was never intended to survive. Lop sided construction culture.
Pros
Pay and benefits
Cons
lop sided culture
Money Savers
Senior Technical Recruiter (Current Employee) – Seattle, WA – November 16, 2017
To "Save Money" they outsourced Recruiting to an agency that in the long run will not serve their greater need. I think that if they invested in recruiting tools and software that there would be a better overall outcome for the recruiting department. having only a few recruiters for thousands of jobs and no tools is not ideal.