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senior project engineer

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This company does not care about it's employees!
Since being brought on the company has fired half it's workforce. Unless the firing is in mass they put employees on "working notice" so they do not have to pay out severance. 
The more they fire the more they expect others to take on even though they are already stretched to the max. 
As a project engineer you have to meet a minimum of 90-93% reimbursable - leaving you only 1.6hrs a week to answer emails or do your timesheet.
The accounting software is a joke and bills are not getting paid (some take over a year to get paid!). The accounting team is understaffed.  
The BD Director was let go and never replaced leaving the team without a leader and with no clear direction and the wrong people in charge. The work - if there is any - demands can be unreal and you are expected to be reachable at any time. 
There is no mentorship - you either sink or swim when you start - and no room for growth. Everyday you hear someone is being put on working notice. 
The company can't win local work because it has cut so much of it's staff. The company is commodities based regardless of the falling commodities market.
DO NOT WORK HERE!!!!!

The company is going through a period of change in Canada. Corporate change and money saving is top priority. 

Employee mass exodus mainly because of sub standard pay and better opportunities at neighboring consultancies. The company replaces top employees with new grads and offer very little support to these less experienced people. No bonuses for the past 3 years and no progress being made regarding retention of employees.

The company are struggling to win big projects to keep everybody busy.  Constant management changes result in a very unstable company. Hopefully things will improve in Q3 2024 and beyond.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They paid the wages on time.
The schedule worked out for their poor boy crew.


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Trying to explain to IMMIGRANTS that the regulations in Canada must be adhered to at all times.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I was gainfully employed by them but the constant nagging about the Canadian rules and inadequacies, made it really easy to walk away from the constant negative environment in the office.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Putting out fire with Gasoline.
Intervention on various subjects!

The project was 75% greenfield work and the balance was within the operating mill.
Particularly enjoyed this project as the scope of work was very complex and schedule driven. An exceptional team made the entire tenure a pleasure to be a main player.

The owner had selected a group of contractors which were specialists in their field which and my duties were to monitor, coordinate the daily prioritized events in a safe and cost effective manner. 

The shift was 20 days in and a 8 day turnaround, hours often varied but minimum was a 10 hour shift.

like most larger companies, they have far too many managers
who seem to work independently more often than not.

extremely large amount of money spent on 'branding' as opposed to fostering relationships with existing, established clients, which would continue to produce actual jobs

Safety is a priority as it should be in a work environment, but far too much time and money spent on redundant, unproductive, repetition of obvious safety awareness and mitigating measures by office staff.

great flexible hours if you have a budget for your work,
Co-workers are wonderful there but staff turnover is high,
Some of the managers are great to work with, but there are some managers that should not be in their positions,
Company spokesperson during coffee talk meetings is an unrealistic visionary and needs to get "real",

I enjoyed my time with Ausenco for the most part and found my co-workers to be very friendly and helpful. 
I learned new skills and experiences from some good people.

This was all good until things started to get bad for the company. 
We were asked to take unpaid leave and that good things were coming.
This was all lies as they were plotting lay-offs without telling anybody. 
I got stabbed in the back this way without any notice or warning. 
Very unprofessional at management level

What is the best part of working at the company?
Very intimidating work environment with a young VP thinking he is above everyone else. Firing people he does not like or doesn’t fall for his tantrums.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
the VP Global Affairs. Absolutely no people skills

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Didn’t stay long enough to find out

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A 9 to 5 workday with interactions with other departments. No guidance or proper training

What is the best part of working at the company?
People are great, we were working remotely,enviroment is suitable to concentrate and focus.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Deadlines of the projects when we just change the base of the project

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
great with helpful and respectful people 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
In the morning I attend to daily, weekly meetings and deal with customer requests and problems

A company focused on sweeping technical engineering issues under the rug to make money.

Management does not engage input from senior engineers to set engineering budgets.

Some engineering disciplines disregard the professional obligations of other engineering disciplines.

Some managers belittle competent senior engineers at Teams meetings.

Best solution for Ausenco is to receive corporate welfare and provide a superficial service...and in fact that is their goal.


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