Spartan Controls Employee Reviews

Good people, decent pay, and great vacation/flex time. You have to drink the kool aid. Employee owned and highly entrepreneurial. If you want to climb the ladder you will need to put in some solid hours. The multitasking and workload expectations can be overwhelming at times.

Was this review helpful?

Work Hard and Play Hard Culture

Automation Specialist (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 14 November 2023

Overall a good company with a lot of very talented people in all positions.Expect to hit the ground running with minimal guidance. They want a lot out of you. But for those who can do it, it will be a good gig.

Was this review helpful?

Jobs at Spartan Controls

Instrumentation Service Technician (Control and Isolation Valve Repair)

Relief Valve Technician

Good workplace

EIT (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 13 November 2023

Great workplace, excellent SLT and good management. QPS and profit sharing make up a large portion of your paycheck, and can vary. Low base rate salary

Was this review helpful?

A great place to work.

Application Engineer (Current Employee) - Calgary, AB - 30 August 2023

A great place to work. Flexible day are a blessing, specially when you have kids. I would've stayed if life hadn't taken me in a different direction. It might not be the highest pay in the market (I heard, not my own opinion) but the benefits make up for it. Most people are helpful and nice and are happy to see you learn and grow with the company. I highly recommend working there.

Was this review helpful?

An amazing place to work!

AR/AP Finance Administration Finance Currently (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 18 March 2023

The best place I have ever experienced in my work career of 10 years. Other companies can learn a lot from Spartan. I am so blessed to have been a Spartan for 8.5 months

Pros

Transparency, work/health balance

Cons

Can’t think of one thing, and that’s being homest

Was this review helpful?

Insights into Spartan Controls

Based on 10 survey responses

What people like

Energizing work tasks
Time and location flexibility
Feeling of personal appreciation

Areas for improvement

Fair pay for job

Incompetent management

Valve Technician (Current Employee) - Edmonton International Airport, AB - 9 January 2023

Nepotism at it's finest with incompetent management and a cult like culture making it near impossible to move up. Way too long of hours so be prepared to not have a life for half the year for mediocre pay. I will say the benefits are nice and when you can get your alloted time off.

Pros

Benefits, vacation days

Cons

Long hours, middle management, pay

Was this review helpful?

Good workplace with decent pay

Control Panel Technician (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 5 April 2022

Very good learning opportunity with decent pay. Lots of guys working for many years. Ability to advance, after certain time availability of apprenticeships and special training.Good work and safety practices. Opportunities to advance to field or office positions. New guys won't encounter any problems if they work properly, no crazy strain work. Regular hours.

Pros

Pay, flexible hours, ability to take many paid days off, good training. Awesome people, almost everyone.

Cons

Hard to get overtimes

Was this review helpful?

Great place to work!

Technician (Former Employee) - Edmonton - 31 March 2022

If you are someone who likes to work hard, "play hard" - this is the company for you. Yes it is busy and a lot of work to be done, but Spartans (that is what the employees are called) know how to have fun, too. It's a very connected, family-like culture, which is rare how big of a company it is.The benefits are paid, and it's a great package. Pay is entrepreneurial in nature but fair and competitive. Don't be quick to judge the pay by the offer letter, you will be happy with your T4 at the end of the year. You get a lot of time off, you just need to actually use it. The Management are all supportive of work life balance, so if you plan and use your time, there is some balance there. Overall, it was a great place to work. I would happily recommend it to friends and family.

Pros

Culture, Fun, Family feel, Good Benefits, Competitive Pay, Supportive Management and HR

Cons

Definitely busy, but worth it in the end!

Was this review helpful?

I enjoyed the there is mulitple groups and each have their different culture of training the employees

Specialist (Current Employee) - Edmonton, AB - 20 March 2022

I didnt get any formal training when i started, and i basily learned my skills by gettign assigned to different jobs and learnign what is needed specific to the job scope

Pros

customer focused

Cons

emplyee training could use some work

Was this review helpful?

Field Engineer

Field Engineer (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 22 October 2021

The management was not respectful and lacked integrity. The unique pay structure did not work out as promised. The work load was extremely heavy. Out of eight companies I have had the pleasure of working for in Western Canada throughout my career, this was my least favourite.

Pros

Internal company product training

Cons

Respectful workplace issues

Was this review helpful?

Rate your recent company

Share your experience to help others

Waste of time

Order Selector (Former Employee) - Edmonton, AB - 12 October 2021

-You'll start as a temp. You'll be covering the massive amount of holidays the full timers get so you'll also be short handed on those days.- If you manage to get full time your wage will drop to 15$/h. They "balance" it out with profit share which is maybe 3k quarterly. So that 3k just covers your debt you accrued over those months. You don't make much of anything. -Benefits are alright-YOU MUST DRINK THE KOOL-AID because they will fire you just for talking about how disorganized the company is. Which it seriously is

Was this review helpful?

Don't drink their Kool-Aid

Technician (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 31 August 2021

There's a lot to say about Spartan Controls. They hook you in with this mindset that you are "an owner" even if you don't have shares yet. That's their excuse for you to work long hours with little to no overtime pay as it's based off your base pay (and none of you're a salaried employee). If you're part time be prepared to be part time for sometimes a couple years. Many of the leaders are primadonnas who really don't lead by example and were thrust into their roles prematurely or due to nepotism. The pay structure is terrible so hopefully you're able to live off savings for the first 5-6 months until profit sharing is in full swing yet even then you may struggle monthly with such low pay.There's some good things about Spartan but they don't outweigh the bad. You'll have decent benefits, safety glasses and boot allowances. There's plenty of time off if you're full time. Whether or not you can take time off when you want is the only issue.

Pros

Benefits, time off

Cons

Culture, pay, long hours

Was this review helpful?

There needed to be some improvement

Mechanical Project Engineer (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 24 February 2021

I worked at the Solutions Center in the NE. The work is interesting, and there are some great people that work there. Although, the mechanical drafting group was very inflexible, did poor quality work, and spent a lot of time talking loudly, taking extended lunch breaks, and making fun of other coworkers/calling them names. They were always complaining, and dragging their feet whenever an engineer tried to get them to do any drafting. The management was blissfully unaware, and would not take any action to correct the behaviour. It was not impressive to say the least. I believe the management needs to be improved in that group, there is no reason to have behaviour like this.

Pros

Free food, excellent gym, lots of learning, exciting projects, mostly good people

Cons

management doesn't pay attention, certain individuals have terrible lazy and negative attitudes

Was this review helpful?

A amazing place to work

PROTECTION SERVICE ADVISOR (Former Employee) - Grande Prairie, AB - 23 September 2020

I thoroughly enjoyed my time working here, but the manager I had at the time was unprofessional and due to our remote location, his antics went unnoticed for so long that we ended up losing half of our team. I would strongly recommend working for Spartan, and would do so again in the future, especially in one of their bigger locations. The base pay was so-so, but the quarterly profit sharing, benefits, flex days, vacations, and a wealth of other benefits, more than made up for it. I only left Spartan due to a relocation to another city where they sadly did not have any availability at their local branch.

Pros

Benefits, profit sharing, room for growth, flex days, culture, education, and company investment in employees

Cons

Regional branches can go ignored, "busy season" can get hectic if not managed properly.

Was this review helpful?

Great Company

Project Coordinator (Former Employee) - Edmonton, AB - 5 June 2020

High demand job but incredible team and coworkers. Also, encourages giving back to the community via blood drives / United Way. Salary base pay is subsidized with profit sharing.

Was this review helpful?

Have restaurant on site

Customer Service (Current Employee) - Calgary, AB - 26 April 2020

From the time you get to work to the end of the day, you work hard. Days flew by fast as you were so busy. Activities offered on campus and occassional off campus. Parking free. Great group I work with.

Was this review helpful?

Grew to fast

System Asset specialist (Former Employee) - Edmonton, AB - 3 April 2020

All the good management have moved on, they grew too fast and have not groomed the managers well, the good ones are far and few between. Since it is a employee owned company your pay is effected by others.

Was this review helpful?

Amazing Place to Work

Office Administrator (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 3 February 2020

They treat you like family and everyone is so happy and helpful. There is so much room for advancement and the company would happily take a current employee over an external hire.

Was this review helpful?

Very nice company.

FI/CO Analyst (Contract) - Finance (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 31 December 2019

I was only there for a 5 week contract, but I could tell that it was a very employee focussed company. All of the Spartans are very nice and have a great work ethic. I'm hoping there will be an opportunity for me to return!

Was this review helpful?

Demanding

Service (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 17 October 2019

No work life balance, expected to work evening and weekends with no compensation managers pick favourites - those people are allowed to make there own hours. Often not allowed to take time off , expected to answer phone s and emails 24/7. Expect to be micro managed, all the while telling you how great it is to work for them - you should be happy to have a job in their mind

Was this review helpful?

Productive and can often be busy but overall good

Control Panel Technician (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 5 August 2019

If you enjoy a challenge and can handle stress of completing a job on time then you will like it. There will be pressure from your supervisors as well. You will feel this until you start getting faster and become more efficient with your tasks. You will have days where you feel confident and there will be days where you will feel not confident. You must be able to take criticism well because they go over your jobs in testing and have you fix what is wrong. Use this criticism for learning. Overall it really is a good place to work and if you have experience in it you will feel better about it but if you are going in blind accept that it will be a challenge.