CH2M HILL Employer Reviews

Was a great corporate setting. learned a lot and met very good people.

I enjoyed working with the employees at CH2MHill. Very professional and friendly.

As an intern, I was offered many opportunities to work on a vairiety of projects. I felt like I learned a lot and am prepared to enter a career in the environmental sector. I was also exposed to projects and programs that I had never used before. Generally, my mentors took time to teach me and were willing to answer my questions. It was sometimes hard – more... to coordinate my responsibilities when working piecemeal for many project managers, but that is not the company's fault. Sometimes, my co-workers wouldn't have anything to pass off to me. This was frusteratingsince I was paid by the billable hour, especially since it could have been resolved by better communication between myself and other staff. – less

The company has set up a structure of policies that, while thorough, make it impossible to take ownership of your own desk. There is a culture of micromanagement that is not compatible with enabling employees to do their best work.

Great 14 hour work days with very low personal operation costs. Generally help full, competent older co- worker core group. Must keep written documentation of all personal management promises, very inconsistent discipline practices. "Good ole boys club". New employees generally poorly trained, with only surface level fast track training programs.
Job – more... provided fair living but income and benefit package has steady 5 year decline.

Great time off, many great coworkers. – less

Ch2m Hill used to be a good company to work for. It had a great culture and they cared about the employees. Now it is only about the bottom line and taking away everything that once made this a great place to work.

This is the most negative work environment I've ever been in. Coworkers confided that they took antidepressants to cope with their jobs – more... or would go home and cry. Horrible management - bad communication, unrealistic expectations, and no positive reinforcement, only drilling in the negative.

No job is worth this turmoil and misery. Avoid this company like the plague! – less

Company has a great culture. Company is global with 30,000 employees.

In my time as an intern, it was a great opportunity to not only learn what path I wanted to take my career, but also where I wanted to end up one day.

This company invests so much into their employees from Top to Intern. Not too many companies allow for such an opportunity to give the employee the freedom to wonder "what next?". They then support you – more... to get to that next level. Tons of advancement opportunities, that not only you will desire, but you will earn through company offered continuing education classes. – less

Great company to work for, puts great focus on doing the right thing by employees, clients and customers.

I typically work 40-50 hours per week. Everyone I've worked with seems very competent at what they do. Being that the projects are very large, fast paced, and demanding, it requires good communication and cross-discipline coordination. If one is a fresh out of school grad, they should definitely team up with a mentor to show them around and coach them – more... in the work processes, otherwise, they might feel lost for a while and not be too productive. Working on these type of large, fast paced projects requires one to have alot of initiative and not be afraid to ask questions when they don't know something. – less

I liked this job and due to extreme personel experience i had to leave. I enjoyed this work and my co-workers. The hardest part of the job was the below temperatures but the company made it worth it. I enjoyed being outside working.

Very flexible working environment. Given much responsibility.

Project Management, Project Financials, Budgets, Forcasting, Revenue Recognition

I worked with this company and hated every minute of it. The project managers, engineers were all rude and complained every single day. The senior staff cannot take responsibility for its own actions and had no problem throwing subordinates "under the bus". They were very unfriendly and clique-ish.

A typical day included creating many design drawings in AutoCAD as well as helping the engineers with instrumentation specification sheets. I learned a lot in this position including using AutoCAD (self-taught), drawing in CAD hand drawn to scale drawings. I learned the basics of Electrical and Instrumentation standards by the IEEC. The management was – more... always very helpful in guiding me in the right path as well as my co-workers. I don't feel that any part of this job was hard. I enjoyed the ability to work in this fast paced environment feeling like i was not only learning something new everyday but accomplishing projects as well. – less

Antiquated management philosophy. Culturally shark infested.

CH2M Hill offers very little job training for accountants. You are basically forced to learn on the job. The work days are fairly routine - 8 or 9 hours per day is the norm. There is very little room for advancement within the accounting department; you need to change departments entirely if that's your goal.

Worked on the Sandy Springs project and just grew tremendously(professionally).

I worked for CH2M Hill for nearly 3 years. Then one day I was laid off without an hour's notice. It was a shock. I would recommend if you take a position, be ready for the inevitable. They are concerned with the stock value like any other company. They required over 95% billable hours. If they didn't have enough work, they let people go.

This review is only for the Spartanburg office of CH2M HILL, and specifically the mechanical engineering department.

I worked here for almost two years and all I ever did was model ductwork and piping in 3-D using AutoCAD MEP, resolve conflicts with other disciplines and generate construction drawings from the models. The department has an assembly – more... line type of process and younger and/or less experienced engineers were basicically little more than drafters and not exposed to any of the front end engineering tasks. I did no equipment selection there, no heat load calculations, it was all AutoCAD all day every day. I told all 3 guys that I interviewed with that I didn't want to do just AutoCAD all day and I was told there would be some but they made it sound like it would be a well rounded job, but I defintely did more drafting here than any of job I have had.

There are some good mechanical engineers in the department but the department head at the time was not a friendly guy who you could talk to and he seemed like the wrong choice for department head. I think they moved him over to a quality control position and that seems like a good move by the company. One of the younger project managers is a control freak and a micromanager, he will even look at a temporary file setup you have in CAD and find something wrong with it according to some obscure corporate policy that nobody but he is aware of and does not seem to apply to the situation unless you are very rigid like he is.

This company is the type of company that overhires people in the good times and thus has to let people go when times get tough. It wasnt busy in 2007 but the hiring manager kept hiring more and more younger engineers. I would have been willing to take on more work but he never asked me. – less