Peace River Hydro Partners Employee Reviews

Safety is bad. Poor planning. No room to advance. Camp food is bad. Camp is like prison. Management is poor. The union is not there for the employees.

Pros

Good pay

Cons

Not a good environment

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It’s the people that makes experience

Heavy Equipment Operator I (Current Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 5 July 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?They pay very well the camp is like a 5 star hotel What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Having to travel across Canada to workWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?All different kinds and different types of personalitiesWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?Extremely busy lots of production

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Insights into Peace River Hydro Partners

Based on 63 survey responses

What people like

Fair pay for job

Areas for improvement

Trust in colleagues
Support from manager
Sense of belonging

Terrible place don’t ever go

Dozer Operator (Former Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 30 May 2023

Three word f*** that place. Management is terrible. They’ll hire yea lie to you over and over again about how much work they got, then lay ya off within weeks. Anything to try and hit their deadline.

Pros

Good pay

Cons

Terrible management, they’ll lie to you 10000-%

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good money

Lead hand (Former Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 16 May 2023

long days of work and living in a camp. great way to make money. most of the time your working with great people. felt like a stressed out family. above average pay.

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Excavator, dozer operator (Current Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 15 May 2023

It's an organizational disaster. Every hitch more and more people quit. I wouldn't recommend working here as they are no longer the prime contractor on-site.

Pros

Wage

Cons

Management

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shady company as a whole

Haul Truck Operator (Former Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 10 January 2023

preach safety but dont follow put their operators in harsh road conditions with no road work, tell you one thing to your face and do another behind your back make up reasons to fire people who have genuine safety concerns !

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fun place,good people job is not hard

LABORATORY TECHNICIAN (Former Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 27 December 2022

good company to work with as entry level.salary is fair though it is fly-in fly-out job.interesting experience when you're on the field collecting samples for the test.more lifting and bending.people/co-worker are easy to mingle with,they are all supportive.most of the time are indoor activity.laboratory and facility are fair condition.they supply you with light duty vehicle for sample collection and test on the field.

Pros

free board and lodging

Cons

away from home

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Worst managers ever worked with!

Heavy Equipment Operator (Former Employee) - Saint John, NB - 7 December 2022

The management culture was very culty and self centered. If they didnt want or like someone on there crew they made it known by bird dogging that individual and harrassing within one on one situation so as not to make themselves in jeopardy. Upper supervisor was overwhelmed by there culture and didnt advance any corrections. I left job to regain self and stop anxiety.

Pros

Very nice camp

Cons

Personal Controlling supervisors

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Loader Operator (Former Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 23 November 2022

Good pay , rotation sucks 2 and 1 . Alot of bag lickers . Ok place to work . It's clac union , overtime after 6.5 hrs per day . Rrsp matches over 5 % . Camp is great excellent food . Bar at camp max 4 drinks . Hair dressor at camp . Massage .

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Very Poor Management

Earthworks Foreman / Supervisor - Site C Dam (Current Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 5 August 2022

Job scope is interesting however management is the worst I've experienced in 20 years, I've watched them hire 100's and promise long term employment only to lay them off a month later because they were only hired to meet a target. Don't waste your time, its a miserable place, you'll be much happier. Your welcome.

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Apprentice Electrician (Current Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 10 May 2022

Back stabbing managers and coworkers out to step on you on their way up. Never know when you're going to get the axe, and a bad culture of safety third

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Bad toxic work place

Scheduler (Former Employee) - Fort St John's - 9 May 2022

Terrible management and toxic work place. No process lo g work hours without overtime. Mangers could not speak or understand English and were not able to explain assignments

Pros

Nice camp

Cons

Long hours without recognition

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Interesting project, poor remuneration for salary positions.

Environmental Monitor (Former Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 7 March 2022

Interesting project to be a part of, however, poor remuneration for salary positions -- no RRSP packages and lower than average salary for this type of position. Entry level and a good place to learn more about large civil projects but not the best place to learn the best environmental monitoring practices.

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Unorganized and bureaucratic.

Technical Procurement Specialist (Former Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 4 March 2022

Most people are great to work with, knowledgeable about their discipline and wanting to execute at a high level. Having three companies filling senior management/executive team positions that all have separate interests and objectives in the project means constant power struggles and direction changes. When camp travel is occurring (COVID related), the camp and camp life are as best as possible.

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Disappointed

Supervisor (Former Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 25 February 2022

They preach teamwork and safety and then offer no support. Management is so in love with themselves they have no idea how full of it they are. Disappointing considering how awesome the project could be.

Pros

Great project and people on the ground.

Cons

Poor management.

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Quality Control Inspector (Former Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 28 January 2022

Nice and best home office work environment all over Canada, worked from home during Covid-19. Excellent Field Execution Team.Great team, work is tough but fun. The pay could be better. The work is seasonal, laid off in the winter.

Pros

Nice and best home office work environment all over Canada, worked from home during Covid-19. Excellent Field Execution Team. Great team, work is tough but fun. The pay could be better. The work is seasonal, laid off in the winter.

Cons

Nice and best home office work environment all over Canada, worked from home during Covid-19. Excellent Field Execution Team. Great team, work is tough but fun. The pay could be better. The work is seasonal, laid off in the winter.

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Heavy Equipment Operator & Underground Miner (Former Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 3 January 2022

No amount of money is worth the dysfunction and corruption of this type of organization. It’s tempting to be a bum in a seat an make a killing but to take no pride in what you do, who you work for, what you’re building, where you’re investing your time, being unable to utilize what you know, or learn anything new, learn from anyone you work for, it does something to a person after a while.

Pros

So much money

Cons

Unlimited cons

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Highly recommend avoiding

Haul truck driver (Former Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 21 July 2021

Terrible environment absolutely no loyalty they cover up serious safety incidents the entire workplace is a disaster waiting to happen management personnel are totally under qualified

Pros

Pay ok

Cons

Everything else

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A Huge Mess

another number (Former Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 15 April 2021

This company takes care of their guys about as well as they take care of their machines. The pile of dead gear here is larger than I've ever seen. Management is an absolute Joke there's no safety to speak of which is clear right off the bat as there's no house keeping so most work sites look like pig sties.

Pros

the money is good

Cons

everything else

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Diverse scope of work and labour intensive

Equipment Operator/Laborer (Current Employee) - Fort St. John, BC - 22 February 2021

Too many young bucks with no or little work experience just hanging out while a select few do the work. Management sees it but have tied hands on account of the union. The lazy ones take full advantage of not being able to get fired.Good work, VERY good pay, excellent camp and amazing people for the most part.