customer service coordinator

engineer

coordonnateur de service

collaborateur paie

SAVAGE

My former employer sold there Bruderhime assets and the new owner subcontracted the operation to savage. This resulted in a 40% pay cut for my self.

During there orientation / hr meeting which was 1 month after startup and ran to 3 am (who runs a hr meeting on night shift?)  the HR guy suggested we did not deserve sick day more money, and perhaps that's why the former company was unsuccessful. He promised to get back to us on our concerns and never did. we had to go to Alberta labor to get the company to comply with provincial overtime laws

Safety is secondary to production, the now assistant manger once sent a guy out by him self in the rail yard to clean on top of a rail car without fall protection. Drug and alcohol testing is only preformed on select employees, if your long term and spill have a safety incident no testing is done and no incident report is written up.   

There is very little stability there they higher and lay off based on market fluctuations. one guy got a layoff in his orientation. 8 others got tossed less then two months on the job but they added a second assistant mangier.

Hard skill are not required or valued (the mangier has to ask what KPI stood for...) there full focus is soft skills and attitude, people can be afraid to work in the rail yard with you because of poor skill but you will get promoted if you express you love of the company. 

Please don't disregard this as a bitter employ who misses the gravy days of the old company, there is a recurring them in the bad and good reviews here. This is an American company with an American point of view. They believe they are the best at what they do and if you don't agree then you can go. They have little respect for the worker and a very narrow scope of operations. Production is foremost in there minds, there is no formal training or certification for anything other then the rail yard. The vast majority of the local staff hate savage that's why all three of the operations mangers were brought form other sites. 

I cant see them being there long as the client has expressed there distaste in savages performance many time and many workers have bee approached by the customer and asked if they would like to leave savage and work directly for the site owner.

Worked on average more than 12 hours a day. Pay was wrong some times, but would be fixed later. 

Took almost 6 months to get a raised agreed upon with the offer of employment. 

Very good working environment, friendly people and friendly management. Movement based on merit. 

After stabilised company started cutting back hours.

Terrible company to work for, management is a joke, training is terrible. If you’re lazy and don’t work hard you’re rewarded, if you’re a hard worker complete opposite. Workers who worked at this site had to take a pay cut, just to continue to work at this site. Would not recommend working for them 

if you are willing to learn..They will help you succeed.
We have employee meals at least once per month
profit sharing bonus at the end of the year
job security

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Customer service coordinator 2 salaries reported	$21.00 per hour
Engineer 1 salary reported	$36.00 per hour
Coordonnateur de service 1 salary reported	$21.00 per hour
Collaborateur paie 1 salary reported	$72,500 per year

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