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Aggreko is a great company to work for you want to work,  work week can range from 50-100 hours a week, yes 100.   Your phone will ring 20 hours a day and the emails will never stop.   

 You will get little support from management and they love to transfer  irate customers right to the techs phone on jobs that cost more than you will make in your life.    Its hard to sympathize with ceos screaming about lost millions when you only make 20 something an hour.   

Money is there if you want to work with no overtime cap and great benefits.    Need to have a few grand in the bank at all times for expenses ,  they will pay you back ,  eventually......

Canadian support is little with most of the company upper management being in the US side including all HR and payroll.    They have little knowledge or care of local rules and regulations so don't be surprised when things fall on you and they point fingers at you as the "local company rep"

During busy times you may go a month or more without a day off or  seeing your family.

Great company, unfortunately all eggs in one basket approach to oil and gas business results in a complete lack of job security...not that there is much when you are an "at will" employee just like with any other employer.
To be fair, when times were good, this company rocked! Very dedicated to training employees, and all the overtime hours you could handle. Definitely tried to be a "Safety 1st' culture company, but as with any other, the real rule sometimes came off as "safety when it is convenient".

Great people, very dynamic working environment.  Lots of opportunity for travel.  Reasonable pay and working conditions.  

Work life balance is non existent at times, extremely lean business model that requires most employees to wear multiple hats in a day (account manager, bill collector, project manager, on call for service etc etc etc) 

All in it was a good place to spend nearly 8 years and look back fondly.  

My only complaint is they want to compete with other players in the market but are unwilling to commit completely.  We regularly didn’t have equipment to meet urgent demands, and the pricing structure was way out to lunch.  Aggreko does big and complicated projects better than anyone in the world but trips over
It’s own feet trying to secure and revive a small
Construction project.  

get up 5:30, go to dinning room, eat fresh buffet style breakfast, go to office trailer, do morning paper work, get daily assignments, gather parts, go service units, return to eat lunch, go back out service more units, retire, go to dinning room eat buffet style dinner, 
14 days on-shift, 7 days off-shift, fly-in/fly-out camp,
Environment: 
ranges from +40C to -45C (or colder) outdoors, rain, snow, wind, sand,
Leisure:
can go to games room where there are pool tables, foosball tables, card tables, ping pong tables, TV. 
can go to theatre room to watch movies, sporting events, 
can go to gymnasium, work out on free weights and machines, volleyball, basketball, excercise classes, 

Company is run under a very lean model making it a high overtime job with poor work life balance for technicians.  It is HQ in the USA and no HR representation or senior leadership representation located in Canada.  Salary is low balled due to the high overtime off set.

In 3.5 yrs, I had 2 weeks where I was not tied to my cell phone even when not on call and only because I was on an Island in the Caribbean.

Worked in Oil Sands in Alberta as a Technician..
Aggreko Western Canada is truly struggling with Management issues... Promises made and not followed thru with ... Both Employees and Clients.. Customers are fed promises and then no action taken to follow thru with those promises and now they are losing Clients by the minute... Work environment used to be fun and now everyone in Alberta dreads going to work... Management has sucked the life and spirit from their staff ..

Aggreko Western Canada needs a management House Cleaning

get everything in writing...

Technicians were great for the most part, local management allowed training to be facilitated. Management outside of the facility was and still remains inept, and unskilled. No Canadian representation in leadership.  No Canadian HR, the HR/HSE departments are the most anti  Canadian groups I have ever witnessed.  They go out of the way to not follow Canadian regulations as they feel they do not require to follow them.
The most enjoyable part of the job is not working there any longer. Worst 3.5 yrs ever

Their training doesn't exist.  You are placed in the position and expected to teach yourself.  It is a very "sink or swim" kind of attitude.  The people are very friendly and safety conscience though.  Very small representation in Canada so I learned a lot about other areas of the business because they didn't have staff for all those different roles.  Hardest part is trying to learn their culture and business without the training or time to learn.

Aggreko offers a fair wage, but monetary increases are difficult to obtain. There is a culture in the workforce that promotes excessive hours of service. Executive management is too far removed from the Canadian portion of the business and as such leaves large holes in procurement and workforce. Due to the parent companies worldwide stature, achieving positve change at the workplace as well as opportunities for lateral moves are challenges

This is largely an emergency response business. The work cycle is 24 hours and is a lifestyle more than a job. That being said it is never boring and the challenges are daily. 

The low management rating is due to the high turnover in Sr management as it is always in a state of flux. 

The job culture is high as the field techs and sales people are all first rate so at a functional level this is a good company to work for.

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