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One of the worst companies I have ever worked for
Senior Administrator/EA (Former Employee), Calgary, AB – May 15, 2013
Pros: free parking
Cons: long hours, low pay, no thank you for your hard work only criticism if you made a mistake
There is no such thing as work/life balance here. A typical workday always included overtime (which was banked and never paid out) and working through your lunch break. The expectation was unrealistic. You never felt like you had sufficient time to finish projects before more projects were piled on you.
Management didn't care how many hours you worked – more... or how hard you worked or how much stress you were under, they just wanted you get the job done. There was absolutely no on the job training provided, you were just expected to figure it out as you went along. The co-workers were awesome, but don't get attached because there were firings and layoffs weekly. The most enjoyable part of the job were the great people that worked there. – less
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Surmont 2
Pipefitter (Former Employee), Surmont 2 – May 15, 2013
Pros: have your own washrooms.
Cons: too many to list.
Job site is a joke. Unless you're from Newfoundland or the Phillipines forget about actually working in your trade. The job is totally unorganized. Most foreman are completely clueless and unable to manage their crew.

You are treated like a prisoner while in this camp with all the rules.

If you want to make a quick couple of grand it's o.k but be – more... prepared to lose some sanity while being there. – less
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Terrible erratic Management
Compliance function - Management (Former Employee), Sherwood Park – May 10, 2013
Pros: good pay scale
Cons: uninspiring, uncertain, lack of hr values and not truthful.
Awful company to work for, due to erratic centralised decision by unqualified group that has risen through the ranks. Good policies on paper that is only for reference and show casing. Terrible employee morale due to inconsistent labour policies and frequent terminations.
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Contract Trades Recruiter (Current Employee), Calgary, Alberta – May 10, 2013
Pros: na
Cons: na
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I am a contractor, and therefore I cannot answer other than to say, it is a very fast paced and unique environment. I have also met a lot of great people.
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Disorganized
Pipefitter Apprentice (Former Employee), Calgary, AB – April 11, 2013
Pros: easy for new workers to get into a pipefitting trade
Cons: low salary, poor management, slow learning curve
This is my first experience with URS Flint, but the impression is not the greatest. There are some good things, but overall, the managerial skills are severely lacking, and this makes everything seem much worse.
In a typical day, workers meet for the morning tailgate, there is a safety moment, and we go over the tasks for the day. Then we meet with – more... our foremen and discuss individual tasks. We write up THA (Task Hazard Assessments) and proceed with gathering our tools and getting to our job sites. We work for 10 hour shifts.
The hardest part of the day would probably be getting through the length of the day and the physicality of the work.
The most enjoyable part is learning new things about pipefitting.
I have learned a great deal about safety procedures, including tool use, and assessing and eliminating hazards. – less
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Good working atmosphere where you are encouraged regularly.
Area Project Accountant (Current Employee), Fort McMurray, AB – February 14, 2013
I have learned to grow as an employee and personally. Management is willing to help in all ways possible and they encourage your best work. I love coming to work everyday, as there is a great working environment and atmosphere
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Good Company
Apprentice pipefitter/Steamfitter (Former Employee), Firebag, Meg Energy – February 11, 2013
All around good company. High salaries, good shifts, good management.
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Nothing good to say
Supervisory (Former Employee), Ft. Mac – January 17, 2013
Cons: get out while your ahead
Not a good company to work for. Very high turnover rate in the HSE Department. Being micro managed by corporate. Basically they monitor every minute your in the office and wondering why your not in the field. To many Bosses. They just pass the buck so Lead Safety don't have to do anything.
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yaaaaaaa noooooo
pipefitter (Former Employee), Edmonton Alberta – January 16, 2013
Pros: nothing
Cons: more important to make money then safety is
this is easily the crappyest company around I work for them this summer for 1 month in a mod yard in Edmonton just off clover bar road and it was the most disorganized site I've ever seen in my life not to mention all the foreign workers so many people out here can't find work or having trouble getting apprenticeships and they're hiring 1000 thousands – more... of people from other countries I think it's completely disrespectful completely stupid its not always easy to become apprentice sometimes it is sometimes it isn't it depends on the company !all the foreign workers could barely speak a lick of English they wouldn't even put up tape during crane lifts with red ribbon tape it was just the danger zone so many little things happen that I could see someone getting severely injured on that site 1 of my friends work there and he was there for just over a month as well as a lectrician if he left it after a month too! should be mandatory did they put all foreign workers through an English course I even told the safety that it's kinda hard to say you're all about safety when the workers around you can't even understand each other and they start talking in amongst our language when we're doing a crane lift and I'm on the tagline I have no idea what they're saying It really madee me mad – less
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Okay place to work, terrible management
Heavy Equipment Operator (Current Employee), Conklin, AB – January 14, 2013
Pros: travel covered, stress free
Cons: poor management, boring, no real respect for employees
Was at MEG Energy Christina lake site, travel was about the only benefit of working there, management was terrible, no communication and very poor planning, spent most of the shift doing nothing but sitting around, might of worked 40 - 60 hours in two weeks. I prefer to be kept busy but thats just me. crews were pretty good, except for the local labour – more... i think they hired at fort mac 7/11 as some of the guys have never seen a shovel in there lives. foreman were good, 2.25 for night shift bonus which was ok, top Operator rate was 42.74 including night shift premium, if you get into Poplar ridge camp on site you will be lucky as it is a awesome camp with great food and rooms – less
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Very good company to work for , looking for more out of town work
Safety/Electrician (Current Employee), Calgary Alberta – December 27, 2012
I enjoy my time at URS FLINT they have been very good to me. They allowed me time off to complete my NCSO training. FLINT always encouraged me to keep advancing myself and I'm greatful for all ive learned here.
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Poor work environment
Journeymen (Former Employee), Conklin AB – December 16, 2012
Pros: 11 hr days (meg) onsite training for safety tickets
Cons: disorganized and passive aggressive management culture, lost work to ledcor
Went too their MEG 2 project in Conklin in September 2012 with promises of over a year of work and the best camp in Alberta with flights but the five star camp is full of office staff  who get priority. also met a few well connected green hats who had no experience and started later, but were sent to the nice camp right away while we (experienced JM) – more... were put up in a hole called MEG 2 camp,  and the flights , well only office staff got flights and the rest took the bus, and they were once again laying off by Dec. They lied through thier teeth to keep guys from leaving just to lay them off middle of dec 2012, with little hope of finding a job until well after the holidays.   

The site was severely disorganized, all too often  one or two crews would be halted by another crew due too poor planning. This contributed too the very low moral. Many of the foremen, GFs and up had jobs based on thier relationships even if they were greatly lacking experience . It was very obvious to everyone the management team was of very poor caliber and instead of accepting responsibility  the blame was passed down the line in the morning meetings
We called the weekly safety meeting demoralizing meetings as it sucked the little energy out of the craftsmen. 
 I do not expect to be treated like a king, and I can take a good deal of BS from an employer, but they had very little respect for good craft workers, therefor I want to help others avoid wasting thier time with the incompetent project management team employed by flint, hopefully URS cleans up flint a bit and employes a much more positive management team in the future. It sounds  like the surmount job is even worse, yikes! – less
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Terrible Work inviroment, Lies, Lies, and more Lies
Electrician (Former Employee), Conklin – December 16, 2012
Pros: they won't be around much longer
Cons: everything
Safety is just a word, management treats everyone like dirt. Even each other. They must think there is an endless amount of competent Tradesmen out there looking for work. They hire them, jerk them around, they quit or get fired for no reason. I worked one month for them and that was more then enough. They will realize one day soon that their company – more... is nothing without competent tradesmen. The word is spreading fast about this companies disrespect towards it workers. In 2013 and the coming years their is going to be a huge shortage of tradesmen in the oil sands.The way URS Flint is going through them now there won't be anyone left in 6 months that hasn't heard about staying away from this company. – less
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secure job
Field quality control QA / QC (Current Employee), fort mcmurray ab – December 13, 2012
Cons: flexible time
good company to work for not much of money good enviroments ................................................................................................
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URS Flint is engineering, and construction for oil and gas industry
Estimator (Current Employee), Edmonton AB – December 7, 2012
Pros: flexible hours of work
Cons: compressed work week
Takeoff estimating different project- Oil and Gas
Cost engineering
Project Management
Good Team work
Time dead line for complition of estimation and review
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Bad place to be, probably worst in Alberta!!!
RIg Welder (Former Employee), Surmont – December 1, 2012
Pros: not much!!!
Cons: stay away from this job!!!
Poor leadership, and low quality people in the office, Safety, QC,and management. This job site and URS itself shows how busy it must be in Alberta. They can't find any quality people to provide leadership for the job. The Surmont Lodge camp has paper thin walls, and low quality food, an limited choices for lunch to take to work. if you say the wrong – more... thing to a coworker there don't be surprised if you are Railroaded ( fired ) off the job. It will be a sad day if I ever have to work for URS Ever again. – less
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Hristo – December 13, 2012

After nearly 30 years in theElectrical trade I made the mistake of working for URS Flint. The recruiter tells you one thing, Then once your on the job site management changes their tune. We didn't,t get paid nearly the right amount for the first week and didn't get pay stubs. When one of the crew sent an email asking about the issue he was fired on the spot. An Electrician on the opposite shift raised a safety concern and was told he was going home, fired. The rest of the crew was laid off after the second shift. I still can't believe the 19th century mentality of this company. Get everything in writting with these clowns. but the best advice is stay away from this company.

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worse company to work for
none (Former Employee), surmont 2 – November 19, 2012
Pros: mama
Cons: the rest of the flint management
Worse place that I ever worked in my life was for flint at the surmont 2 project and I have been working for oil companys for over 30 years
The only honest hard worling safety rep on that project for flint is one lady who I will refer to as mama
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Horrible moral and safety culture
Field safety (Former Employee), Ft. Nelson – October 26, 2012
Pros: lots of hours
Cons: talk the talk but don't walk the walk
Very unfriendly atmosphere. Upper management has no respect for field employees. Everything that this company does is to put money in their pocket. They have a sound safety system but the work environment is still get it done. Worker safety is more up to the worker vrs. Supervision. Workers left to fen for themselves rather that having their immediate – more... supervision assisting in a safe productive manner. Any dealing with supervision to worker is done with distain. Very very poor environment to work in. Company supplied transportation is old not maintain and generally begrudging.
I rather doubt that I would expose myself to this type of abuse again. If the were actually one of Alberta's 10 best employers it is beyond me how that was archived judging by the culture of this company. Maybe with the change in ownership their culture might improve. . – less
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– November 10, 2012

The people running the Surmont Flint job don't have clue how to get people to work together, they are only concerned with their own deal and how to further their mediocr career. They lie to get people on the job and then fall short with the real situation. No Benifits for welders , low wage for helpers. It's a poorly run show!

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Average working environment plagued by low morale.
Truck Driver (Former Employee), Nisku, AB – October 14, 2012
Pros: friendly management and staff.
Cons: average pay, no advancement opportunities for basic educated field employees.
Nothing stands out as a first choice for employment. Field wages are only average. No additional compensation, no incentives, no subsistence, no boot allowance. Field work is spotty. Too much paperwork expected. Low worker morale. Old equipment, crude and corroded in appearance.
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Nothing stands out.
Truck Driver (Former Employee), Alberta – October 14, 2012
Cons: use your own cell phone constantly, no subsistance, no boot allowance.
Way too much paper work required to be completed by employees. Older equipment that is well maintained but becoming worn out. Most of the equipment is badly corroded and over due for new paint. Pay is only average. Shop pay is a much, much lower rate than the field pay. A lot of politics, and most staff members are unhappy. No subsistence. No boot allowance. – more... Pay to wash your own coveralls and receive no reimbursement. – less
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