Spent over a decade with this company. The vast majority of the people are great. Gained valuable experience over the years, but unless you're a local or friends with high management, you're permitted to advance only so high. To put it in other words, if you're happy with progressing only so far, this is a fantastic place to work. Apply if you're content with operating equipment for thirty years. The work-life balance is first-rate. There is the stability of employment aspect. Plenty of knowledge to take in through the years. For the work, the income is above average. As an operator, the union setting is that of a typical nature. If or when you advance, you will be in the role of supervision, which is a more "disposable" function. It's possible that you'll be allowed to stay. It's possible that you won't be allowed to. Some have been punished in order to serve as a warning to others or to cover up for managerial faults. The politics are thick and quite disappointing.

Pros

Good Income; Stability; Experience; Benefits

Cons

Advancement is Limited to a Select Group

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A company that productive and safe work place.

Heavy Equipment Operator (Current Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 5 February 2021

Enjoy working with management and hourly workers on site for a safe and productive way to get desired results. Suncor provides people with the ability to step out of their comfort zones to help with ways to effectively do this

Pros

Great company to work for.

Cons

Long hours

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HEAVY EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN (Former Employee) - Fort Hills, AB - 4 June 2020

Great pay, good life/work balance. very lacking for advancement opportunities, frontline management is of very poor quality, completely hinder all aspirations for advancement or movement.

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productive , well organized

Heavy Equipment Operator (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 24 January 2020

projects are generally well organized , fast paced environment . Very good safety culture .Training is available for many aspects of the environments worked in .Excellent health & welfare incentives.

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Great wages, horrible shift work 3days, 3nights,

Heavy Equipment Technician (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 11 January 2020

Great wages, the 3days,3nights shift work is the worst thing about the job. Your body is always in a sense of transition between days and night. Always starting your 6 days off coming off of nights. Very hard on your body and not good for your health.

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Excellent Pay Excellent Organization of People

Heavy Equipment Operator (Current Employee) - On Site - 5 November 2019

Very organized and structured. flexibility with schedules and mutuals, using banked stat days. Very supportive training department. Room for growth and training with other pieces of equipment with pay raises.

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Good place to work I would go back tomorow

Heavy Equipment Technician (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 25 August 2019

Typical union position, if your supervisor doesn't like you you are gone like is my case I loved working for suncor hopefuly I will get my job back .

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enjoyed the 6 and 6 schedule.Safety First

Heavy Equipment Operator (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 10 August 2019

Decent work environment,Safe place to work and build a future for your family.Many different equipment opportunities for experience and skill building.

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Good for the Money

Heavy Equipment Operator (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 8 February 2019

Suncor is a decent place to work as a Heavy Equipment Operator. The shift is 6 days on, 6 days off, and you still start with just over 3 weeks paid vacation. They have lots of rules and protocols, but that increases the safety. No one pushes you to work fast or harder since that could cause an accident.

Pros

Pay

Cons

Northern Alberta Canada

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Big company with opportunity if you want it.

Heavy Equipment Operator (Current Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 8 May 2018

Good management, good technical process of work and staff will do its best to implement company standards by prioritizing safety is at top priority. Will Support families by conducting family day with safe administration and management, good process of work and HR staff are very co-operative.

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Voice Construction - Heavy equipment operator (Former Employee) - Fort Saskatchewan, AB - 2 May 2018

Good job with good pay and benifits, outside mostly. lots of over time, far away from mountains, not alot of stuff to do. not much time after work, MAnagment of companys are good

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Horrible place to work

Heavy Equipment Operator (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 16 January 2018

Everyone was out to take one another job or to get you fired. Never had any support from peers. Leadership was very poor or nonexistent. Would never work there again.

Pros

Days off

Cons

Everything

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Open pit mining

Heavy Equipment Operator (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 15 October 2017

Suncor has a very thorough training program and safety is the number one priority. The schedule is 3 days 3 nights and 6 off. I learned a lot but the schedule was not desirable for me as we were always coming off of night shift.

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good company

Heavy equipment operator (Current Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 8 October 2017

i real like suncor energy the company is wall balance and treat their employee with respect and rewarded them with good compassion.i real recommend the suncor to anyone that wish to work in oil sends .

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Good place to work

Heavy equipment operator (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 7 August 2017

It's a good place to work the shift rotation is 6 on 6 off with lots of overtime if you want it and the pay is good it's a very being a fireman you have to be on your toes at all times

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Good employer.

Heavy Equipment Operator (Current Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 5 June 2017

I really enjoy working at Suncor. It is a good company to work for with an excellent safety culture. Pay and benefits are top notch. Highly recomended.

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Very high paying job.

Heavy Equipment Operator (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 31 January 2017

Long days, shift work is tough. Workplace is the best. Very hard on the body. Very safety senesitve job and at sometimes scaru.

Pros

Money

Cons

Long hours, shift work

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Great company!

Mine Heavy Equipment Operator (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 19 January 2017

Safety oriented top 100 companies in Canada to work for. Great training and equipment progressive training. 6 six hour shifts work cycle. Hardest part of the Job was adjusting for night shifts. Most enjoyable aspect was great employee atmosphere.

Pros

High Wages

Cons

Distance from Ontario where family resided

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Great company to work for

Heavy Equipment Operator/Trainer (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 11 December 2016

Suncor treat their employees well, benefits are second to none but living in Fort Mac, most people don't like. We lived in Timberlea and it work a good area to live in, wee didn't frequent bars either so never ran into the trouble you always hear about.

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Great group of co-workers with same goals in mind.

Tailings Equipment Operator (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 10 May 2016

A great group of guys on my shift that could be always counted on for advice and assistance making it an environment that we could gain experience and knowledge together and grow as a team. The shifts of 6 days on and 6 days off with options of paying or trading days with trusted sufficiently experienced operators on other shifts in order to manipulate off time for very flexible home and family life was excellent. This makes up for being away from home as a commuter or the almost 15 hours per day that was required to get to site, work the 12 hour shift, and return to home or rental accommodations. Unfortunately management doesn't seem to have the operators best interests as the best operators and employees are only treated as good as the less competent being punished and restricted as group when one employee is solely responsible for an incident. I know as management a certain prerogative is to be achieved but employees should be treated on a more personal level. I don't think anyone should be treated special but for management not being able to single out employees that have been hired with absolutely no experience and might not have the skills it will take for the position and to keep them on is creating an unsafe weak link that could ultimately result in an incident that will affect another employees family and wellbeing for the rest of their lives.

Pros

Work schedule, great group of co-workers, pretty much family

Cons

Managment style

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productive place to work

heavy equipment operator (Former Employee) - Fort McMurray, AB - 6 December 2015

union so training was based on seniority rather then the need. there were shift leagues for sports so that provided a sense of normalcy in the life. there were many employee benefits