Enercon Services reviews

3.9

80% would recommend to a friend

(484 total reviews)
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Robert Bryan

87% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Enercon Services has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 484 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Enercon Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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484 reviews
1.0
Jan 24, 2019

Get Out.

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Pros

Overall compensation is generally fair; company employs some very intelligent, hard working personnel with great integrity, though hundreds have left the company (often in disgust) over the past 5 years. The ESOP program is a very good long-term benefit, although it seems likely that the stock price is about to start dropping significantly over the next few years. Multiple layoffs and office closing since the spring of 2016 with little to no sign of improvement in financial performance.

Cons

As many other reviews have noted, this company has been on a downward spiral for the past three years. It has become an alternate universe where nothing makes any sense. The outrageous retention rate speaks for itself. Senior management has lost all respect. Simply put: every aspect of the business is dysfunctional and most personnel in a supervisory/management position are either incompetent or unable to gain any traction to make a difference. In some cases, the company has elevated people who violate the company's "excellence" principles on a daily basis to a position of power. Either senior executives explicitly approve of this behavior or they choose to ignore it. Either way, it's sad. Quarterly "Gainshare" program has essentially not provided anything since the 4th quarter of 2015.

1.0
Aug 13, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

None , Enercon is a SINKING ship!

Cons

Accepting Enercon's job offer was the MOST TERRIBLE CAREER MISTAKE I MADE! Enercon provides CHEAP and LOW QUALITY service to the nuclear industry by SLAVING poor off-the-school engineers. All employees know that the Company is on the verge of BANKRUPTCY despite the management's effort on proving the opposite! READ THE COMMENTS BEFORE JOINING!

2.0
Mar 5, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The salary seems to be above average for this type of work. There is an employee ownership program, and the experience is useful when looking elsewhere.

Cons

The company is in it for the money and the work, period. Do not expect to have a good work-life balance, but rather to feel always under pressure, especially from other engineering disciplines who are always out to blame you for the project's shortcomings. The disciplines never get along, and they only view each other as scapegoats for when things inevitably go wrong because of a scope change (without corresponding increase in billable hours). As a result, the number-one skill that you will learn as an employee at Enercon is covering your ass around every corner. You must document every single correspondence, lest it be used against you once the blame-game takes center stage. There is a severe disconnect between the staff engineers and their managers. The managers seem to only want to report positive gains and how much "success" their group is seeing, despite the reality. There is no level of meaningful training. You are simply fed corporate talk and then thrown onto the first project without much guidance. In order to complete calculations or paperwork tasks (of which there is always too much), you are led to copy from previous projects. These sample projects are not necessarily Enercon projects, but also from other companies who do similar work. This copy-paste method of carrying out the work does not build one's skills as a competent engineer, but rather leaves you feeling like a pencil-pushing copycat. Any site visits you are sent on are most often useless. You are being sent on a walk-down just to show the client that you are willing to drive hours on end (in the midwest, this can get old) just to measure the height of a single baseplate on the wall or to recover a document from the client's system (one that is only available on-site, for example), instead of just requesting the measurement or document by email or phone. This kind of thing would only take the client 5-10 minutes to complete, but instead Enercon sacrifices the entire workday of multiple engineers in order to carry this out.

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