Pros
Pays more than what any restaurant can pay
Cons
Underpaid for the amount of work you do. Equipment is 60+ years old, ALWAYS unscheduled maintenance and shutdowns , they don't hire fast enough to fill spots we need to combat overtime . Work/home life is non existent unless you're on top of the OT list, leadership is abysmal. No alignment with anyone top to bottom other than one supervisor who actually knows what's going on, in one unit you do more work and learn more stuff than any other unit and they still get paid the same for less of everything. Everything is made harder for an operator, no investment in training and equipment, everything is bandaided to keep rates up instead of actually fixing stuff. No bonuses even when you outperform expectations and stay safe. People in administrative building get fed like kings while operators get fed like children in order to "boost morale". Engineers are always swapped around and the new ones assigned to a part of the unit basically have to figure everything out before they can really help us out. But engineer turnover rates are high and there's alot of inadequate engineers too and they always fire them
