typical day - busy learned - management - hard to say when you're not really involved co workers - most are great people just trying to get a job done hardest part of job - getting a good coffee & parking best part of job - supportive environment
Senior Process Draftsperson (Former Employee), Perth Western Australia – January 15, 2013
Ausenco was a very average company to work for, quite flexible as long as you did your hours and expected you to work long hours when required. They offered training when necessary. Most people working there were friendly and helpful. Perth office is ceasing to be a divison and will be managed by Brisbane office - not sure how this is going to work – more... effectively – less
Administrative Assistant (Current Employee), Vancouver, BC – November 8, 2012
Pros: contests, free lunches, yoga room, discounted transit, break room with tv and kitchen, fridays off (conditions apply)
Cons: with so many staff it's hard to remember all the names
Don't let the negative feedback fool you, Auseno is a great place to work!
Competative wages, great company culture, and management that leads by example are just a few of the reasons why there are thousands of happy long term employees here.
Review boards are always skewed because disgruntled employees take the time to complain and happy ones don't. – more... Search any company online and you will find a ton of negative feedback.
Come work at Ausenco and decide for yourself! – less
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LanceW – November 12, 2012
THIS MUST BE A COMMENT FROM THE HR CREW.
FROM THE 1-1 MEETINGS WITH OUR TEAMS AND THE FEEDBACK SESSIONS WERE TOLD FALSE PROMISES WHICH NEVER HAPPENED. THIS IS A HIRE AND FIRE COMPANY.
AUSENCO IS A GREAT COMPANY TO WORK FOR IF YOU ARE A CONTRACTOR I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU GO THERE AS IT IS GOOD EXPERIENCE AND LEARNING AMONG THE CHAOS. THE AFRICAN PROJECTS AND ONES ABROAD WILL GIVE YOU A LOT OF EXPERIENCE..GO FOR THE MONEY HUNT THOUGH AS STAFF OR CONTRACT YOU WILL GET THE KICK.
AS FOR THE ABOVE, IF SOMEONE LOVES TO WORK FOR THE COMPANY WORK FOR "FREE" I HAVE DONE MY FAIR SHARE FOR AUSENCO WHEREBY WE WORKED TO GET THE JOB OVER THE LINE WEEKENDS AND ON LUMP SUM PROJECTS IN THE PROMISE OF A BONUS THAT NEVER CAME...
JANNIE – January 28, 2013
I'm sure it's a wonderful company to work for when you're in a nice cushy permanent office building with all of the necessary resources at hand... but if you're paying any attention to the bulk of the reviews , you'll see that they're from FIELD employees. Employees who are sent to work out the middle of nowhere and given NO support! You're not dealing with someone in a different country, who has NEVER EVEN BEEN TO THE SITE, making decisions about the needs of a project site 50+miles from civilization. Absolutely ZERO support for field project personnel!
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Avoid if possible
Contractor (Former Employee), Elko NEvada – November 8, 2012
Pros: i loved elko
Cons: lack of vision, lack of support, lack of quality people.
Ausenco is a fiasco of a company. I was a contractor and Ausenco refused to support me in any way.
Management is extremely far away and do not understand the reality of site conditions. The engineering staff acted like it was punishment to be sent to Elko for even a short amount of time, so we had almost no support in that area.
I was asked to send – more... all of my work and file weekly reports with Vancouver and in the same email I was told that I would receive nothing from them. Very confusing,... "You work for us, but we will do NOTHING for you!". Who runs a project like that?
The incredible lack of communication on top of decisions made by people who have no understanding of working 50+ miles from civilization, and much of the staff on site had become so jaded that sometimes they were as little help as Vancouver was. They were collecting a paycheck instead of trying to make the project a success.
To quote another reviewer: "The overall lack of response by people who were supposed to support us, left a general feeling of being neglected, forgotten, and sorely abused." Hits the nail right on the head.
On a side note, most of the Canadians we worked with could not see value in trying to improve the project in anyway. Their mentality was "Why fix it if it isn't broke?". It may not have been broke, but it was in need of improvement. So they thought it was a waste of time and that attitude drove me nuts. – less
Manager (Former Employee), Australia – October 12, 2012
Pros: was once a very good company, good people, team, environment, culture
Cons: cut throat, unethical, does not treat clients well
I worked at Ausenco for many years across various offices and client sites. The company has a hire and fire mentality and having seen this during the financial crisis staff are taken over contractors and are grossly underpaid and at times fired for no reason usually 1 or 2 weeks prior to them having the right to have a redundancy payout.
From a client – more... perspective the clients having worked closely with them and on their site managing Ausenco Projects having been frustrated and neglected with management not backing up the Engineering team and not taking account of project deliverables.
The word on the street from Kazakhmys one of the biggest mining producers having awarded the numerous offices four major projects is that it has been a disaster. The work will be guaranteed to be taken away from them.
Satisfaction is almost zero with a firing mentality of management, no client focus especially when coming from the client side, prior to the EPCM and no consulting of lead engineers and project managers prior to releasing staff.
Moral, quality is non existent, and local staff are fired or not hired in place of those with VISA 457's on the grounds that they are less expensive being an "Ausenco Strategic Direction"
Most of the work is also farmed out to third world countries which lack expertise. Having been in these low cost engineering centres at Ausenco it is hire and fire where they are pulled off the street at whoever costs the least then let go once the project finishes. The Joburg office is thus shut after the execution of the project with personnel fired. Most of the proposals sent through may not be 100 percent correct and unethical subject to interpretation of the details to win a job,
Tools provided to designers also jeopardise production with the software not up standard resulting in designers having to use old software which is more time consuming and cumbersome. Management will not back up their employees are personnel especially in client sites, racism also at times are in play.
In general this company does not pay well to staff, is hire and fire, you will lead a team of foreign engineers and designers over locals even onsite in construction and there is no control of your own teams. The moral of the company is low and quality / talent has since left. When I started at this company it was small and had a good quality and group, however in my humble opinion is now a company that I no longer recognise. – less
Project Controls (Former Employee), Brisbane, Australia – October 3, 2012
Cons: you wont work here for long, no values, disorganised
Company has a hire and fire mentality , people are just let go for no reason while still in probation when the "next best thing" comes past. Be careful when applying with this company , behind the front lies a rotten core.
Permanent employee (lasted 7 months) (Former Employee), Vancouver – September 25, 2012
Pros: just a job.
Cons: bottom of the class -- tier c company.
TERRIBLE COMPANY. Hire... Fire. Hire...Fire. Extremely high turnover. Terrible morale. No client focus. No integrity. Sloppy employee relations. Not professional. Only in it for a fast buck.
Cons: poor communication between departments, poor hr/payroll support, horrible benefit premiums
Ausenco acquires businesses in industries they want to branch out into. Unfortunately, it resulted in the decision-makers being extremely far removed from the reality of site conditions. We answered to Canada but our HR/payroll was handled out of California. The Cali payroll rep & Canadian HSEC rep had no knowledge of the US/Nevada requirements. Meanwhile, – more... Canada and California don't communicate. The general lack of communication, decisions made by people who have no understanding of working 65 miles from civilization, and the overall lack of response by people who were supposed to support us, left a general feeling of being neglected, forgotten, and sorely abused. Lastly, benefit premiums are astronimcally high by Nevada standards...but were were lumped into California's plan. – less
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Company that take care of their employees.
MOBILE CRUSHER SUPERVISOR (Former Employee), Tonkili site, Siera Leone. – April 29, 2012
I learned to work with foreign people. My co-workers are fun and hard working. The most enjoyable of the job was the accomplishments.
Ambiente de trabajo bueno, Sueldo acorde al mercado
Inspector Calidad (Current Employee), Calama, AN – May 4, 2013
Pros: seguros medico salud dental
Trabajo en el departamento de calidad en esta empresa inspeccionando al contratista realice sus trabajos como corresponde. Los trabajos que estamos inspeccionado son movimientos de tierra, Obras Civiles y Geosintetico.
Estagiario (Former Employee), Belo Horizonte, MG – February 25, 2013
Pros: a empresa fornecia vale transporte e refeição
A empresa era muito agradavel de trabalhar, aprendi bastante com os colegas de trabalho que tive. Tive algumas dificuldades no inicio com alguns programas mas logo foram resolvidos. A parte mais agradavel do trabalho era aprender nossas ferramentas de trabalho e poder acrescentar muito no meu futuro profissional.
LanceW – November 12, 2012
THIS MUST BE A COMMENT FROM THE HR CREW. FROM THE 1-1 MEETINGS WITH OUR TEAMS AND THE FEEDBACK SESSIONS WERE TOLD FALSE PROMISES WHICH NEVER HAPPENED. THIS IS A HIRE AND FIRE COMPANY. AUSENCO IS A GREAT COMPANY TO WORK FOR IF YOU ARE A CONTRACTOR I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU GO THERE AS IT IS GOOD EXPERIENCE AND LEARNING AMONG THE CHAOS. THE AFRICAN PROJECTS AND ONES ABROAD WILL GIVE YOU A LOT OF EXPERIENCE..GO FOR THE MONEY HUNT THOUGH AS STAFF OR CONTRACT YOU WILL GET THE KICK. AS FOR THE ABOVE, IF SOMEONE LOVES TO WORK FOR THE COMPANY WORK FOR "FREE" I HAVE DONE MY FAIR SHARE FOR AUSENCO WHEREBY WE WORKED TO GET THE JOB OVER THE LINE WEEKENDS AND ON LUMP SUM PROJECTS IN THE PROMISE OF A BONUS THAT NEVER CAME...
JANNIE – January 28, 2013
I'm sure it's a wonderful company to work for when you're in a nice cushy permanent office building with all of the necessary resources at hand... but if you're paying any attention to the bulk of the reviews , you'll see that they're from FIELD employees. Employees who are sent to work out the middle of nowhere and given NO support! You're not dealing with someone in a different country, who has NEVER EVEN BEEN TO THE SITE, making decisions about the needs of a project site 50+miles from civilization. Absolutely ZERO support for field project personnel!