inspector

laboratory technician

field inspector

area manager

truck driver

Amspec LLC

My experience at Amspec was disappointing due to what I felt were inconsistent standards and a lack of accountability from management. Performance expectations were not always clear, and when concerns were raised, employees often did not receive specific feedback or guidance on how to improve.

I felt that some employees were treated differently than others. In my experience, certain individuals appeared to face few or no consequences for behavior that would likely result in discipline for other employees. This created a perception of favoritism and inconsistent enforcement of workplace rules.

I was also aware of situations where employees reported concerns about workplace conduct to HR, but many workers felt those concerns were not adequately addressed. As a result, some employees were reluctant to speak up because they did not believe meaningful action would be taken.

My termination was based on alleged productivity and performance concerns, but when I asked for specific examples, I did not feel I received clear answers. This was especially surprising because I had recently received positive feedback regarding my work. Overall, I found the work environment to be stressful, heavily monitored, and lacking in transparency.

There are hardworking employees at the company, but management, communication, and consistency need significant improvement.

Awesome industry to work in, and to be able to learn a lot of the process of transshipment that of petroleum/petrochemical products. AmSpec, is the leading Inspection company in the industry, and they also know that. With that being said. It’s very micromanaged, and management does not care about you or your personal life. There’s honestly more managers and supervisors than there is inspectors. Makes the morale become discouraging and at an all time low. Some days you want a manager to come up to you and fire you. Most people would be upset about it, not in this case. It’s almost like a relief, because you didn’t have the courage to do it yourself. Also, if it did happen it would be your opportunity to find something a whole lot better than that. Other than management/supervisors, and the schedule, the relationship with co-workers become almost like a brother bond. Working together to make each other’s job a little easier. Because we’re all in this together and the bond tightens like you wouldn’t believe.

Training period was straightforward (about 3 months Monday-Friday 9-5) and good for early professional development. If you paid attention in high school/college chemistry classes, you’ll do fine here and learn interesting stuff about oil and gasoline and quality control. My lab had nice and respectful coworkers and managers; can’t speak for the other locations.

Though once training ends, you’ll be thrown headfirst into a chaotic 24/7 on-call industry. You’ll be expected to regularly work overnights (e,g. 11pm-7am), weekends, and even holidays with no bonus pay or incentives. And the company seems allergic to paying for overtime on busy days or downtime on slow days so you’ll often finish a week with less than 40 hours clocked.

Overall, I recommend this entry-level position to get your foot in the door, then get out ASAP.

Amspec is a great place to gain experience and leave. why you may ask? the pay and benefits are horrible. forget about progressing. the only good thing is that you gain experience and you will be easily hire by the competitor at a higher pay. example of how the company operates, couple years back they hire a whole new shift 8 new lab technician and a supervisor(all of the cubans some didn’t even speak english) that amspec pouch from the competitor. They offer them higher pay better benefits and guarantee overtime. That destroy the soul of employee that were working at the time. This company is eliminating benefits and cutting corners to keep the privet investor happy since it’s not a publicly traded company there revenue and expenses are kept quite. this is the type of company that will give you just what the law require. they are destroying this sector by pushing people to work in other sectors  

A typical work day is usually busy from the start of shift until the end of shift almost with no break in between. I'm on a specialized crew that works with fuel oil almost entirely. I have been trained and successfully learned how to work with most petrochemical products. My co-workers that I work with on a daily basis are outstanding individuals that I very much enjoy working with. There is no "hardest part" of any job because I love a challenge when faced with new things. The most enjoyable part of the job is the satisfaction I get when I have completed an entire movement, be it a transfer, discharge, load or line push and the numbers are on the money. I also very much enjoy the team effort and comradery of my co-workers.

Amspec is a amazingly quickly growing company world wide.  Good company to work for however its so large and corporate you get lost in the mix.  Locally there is too many favorites and the salaries are not comparable to employers experience.  For instance there are employees with less than two years experience being compensated more than hard working knowledgeable employees with 4 to 5 years of experience. Getting well deserved pay raises get delayed with the excuse of "we are waiting for corporate".  I believe that your loyal and hard working employees should be treated as such.  This is not to be intended to be a complaint just my review and the same of my other coworkers.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working with AmSpec is working with professionalism and feeling sure of the quality of the human beings that each one of them represents.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
One specific day when I was working on an asphalt barge and the immense street that came from the load and the heat of the sun at high noon, I felt that I could not breathe with my safety respiratory equipment

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
En AmSpec we work as family we help us mutually 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
One normal day abordando vessel monitoring discharge or loading operation

What is the best part of working at the company?
The people are great. The training program is thorough and easy to pick up even without prior experience 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
12 hour long shifts. Night shifts are where people start so no day shift until they have openings. Certain tests have a time window to record results, if you missed that time then you’d have to start over. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Relaxed work environment and culture. Management and trainers are great people 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Run tests on a variety of petroleum products, filling out paperwork for certification, basic lab housekeeping

Interaction with clients and helping to provide knowledge to both clients and new hires in all aspects of Testing, Inspection and Certification
Working with refineries in standardizing processes for their mass balancing.  Preparing and conducting audits of independent inspection companies on both the operations and laboratory processes.  Assisting in the training of schedulers for pipeline, marine, and land product movements.  Training and assisting department heads in familiarizing their staff with detection and reconciliation of product loss, as well as all aspects of measurement.

Take samples from many types of tanks using: cage, zone, bacon bomb, petro-view, and hermetic. Take volumetric measurements on shore tanks and barges using: gauge tape or hermetic, with understanding of how to read strappings. Knowledgeable in taking innage, ullage and swing gauges in order to get accurate results. Take thermal measurements using thermo-probe and or wood-back thermometer.  Record and obtain time of specific actions and communicate it to coordinator, or dispatch. Understanding of line push, line displacements, roof floats. General understanding, of proper procedure, for gauging and sampling shore tanks and barges per API standards.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Inspector 8 salaries reported	$22.43 per hour
Laboratory technician 2 salaries reported	$26.00 per hour
Field inspector 1 salary reported	$19.50 per hour
Area manager 4 salaries reported	$115,000 per year
Truck driver 1 salary reported	$27.00 per hour

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