landscape technician

landscape foreman

environmental scientist

water project manager

senior project engineer

Apex Companies, LLC

Aside from the bread and butter job sites which are guaranteed to happen every week, there is no guarantee that there will be any work. As such there are days where you come in with no idea what you're doing that day, and other days where you're told not to come in for the rest of the week.

When I applied I asked if I would get a minimum of 32 hours a week and was told yes, but three months in and I have had multiple weeks where I brought in less than 30, and as low as 19.

There is a lack of support from upper management with relatively high expectation to follow a very extensive list of Safety requirements, some of which are not only overkill but also unreasonable. 

The hardest part of the job is trying to do the job with a limited supply of appropriate tools, working with someone underqualified who thinks they are more qualified than you, while saying they have no idea what they are doing, and days that last up to 12 hours in the heat of summer.

I do not consider any part of the job as enjoyable enough to write about.

There is a lot of driving involved with this job. They don’t provide DOT paperwork, insurance paperwork or anything for the truck you drive. The actual company owned truck is still in the shop. The mowers are junk. The trailer to haul equipment is falling apart and they refuse to replace it or the work truck. Enjoy driving a junk rental truck. They refuse to pay you what you are worth. Management tries to pit people against each other. If you do more than your fair share of the work, don’t expect a raise or the recognition you deserve. Management is not located in the same state. Management doesn’t return your phone calls the same day. Sometimes they return your calls the next day when it’s too late or they call a few days later. Better hope your crew leader doesn’t end up out of work since they only want crew leaders having access to the apps you have to use during the day. If your crew leader ends up out due to injury or illness, enjoy wasting half the day while they try to get you access to the apps needed to do your job and don’t expect them to help you understand how to use those apps. And according to management, this company is bought and sold regularly. 

This company does a pretty extensive background check. From driving history,  job references,  and everything that comes with it. This definitely stops Apex from hiring just anyone, this company has federal contracts so they have to weed out the good from the bad. This company definitely is in need of good workers and has a hard time finding them. High turnover rate with this company at this position in Colorado period.  

As a construction technician you definitely have a physical job walking, lifting, and getting dirty for a living. Typical work day of 8-10 hours goin to construction sites and installing/maintaining storm water control measures.

As in most construction jobs your working with others. So working as a team all day can definitely have its ups and downs depending on your personality. Overall i got along with ALMOST everyone. The current leadership in place  definitely needs improvment on there people skills and thats putting it lightly.

I have worked here for a couple of months and while I don’t mind the job itself, It’s very frustrating and challenging to when they want us to get several sites done in a day within an hour and a half when some basins are almost as big as football field. I have had extreme communication difficulties with management. They say they take care of their equipment but the other day when my foreman and I had only one working weed trimmer when we had three with us, mower was down, and the iszuzu truck we were in was having engine trouble they were still going to send us back out in the pickup truck instead of getting the equipment repaired, fortunately they did decide to not send us out but it was still idiotic idea to even think of sending us out. I have many other stories just like this. My foreman was also very difficult to work with since he always criticized me and everything to him was always my fault. While I don’t know what other departments are like, I would tell people to stay away from the compliance technician role.

Now most of the people were great, but management was almost always micro managing everything and everyone. They said that you could choose your own career to go on, but in many ways they would make you go into the career path choice they wanted. It seemed like they never cared about company culture and or creating more and new exciting work. It has become mundane where we were doing the same thing over and over again every day. There was claims of receiving new work or jobs, but many of us never saw it and or received it. It is definitely top heavy on the management side and there wasn't enough work to go around for anyone else. I understand that we had to work weekends and we would work out a way to have everyone on rotation, but eventually the rotations would become smaller so you would have to work more weekends. There was a good bit of favoritism between some employees and management, it really showed. 

Dealing with corporate regarding benefits or HR-related questions is extremely slow and frustrating. The company culture promoted on the website appears to be more of a marketing tactic than a reflection of how employees are actually treated. Internally, the environment often encourages competition rather than collaboration, which leads to tension among teams.
Unfortunately, I witnessed a lack of integrity in day-to-day operations. Gossip and finger-pointing were common, and some employees would deflect blame or undermine others to compensate for their own performance issues. This kind of environment drove away many high-performing colleagues, who either left on their own or were pushed out due to poor support from management.
This might be an acceptable place to start if you’re new to the workforce and don’t know what better looks like—but for anyone who values a healthy work culture and professional growth, I would not recommend it.

My time at Apex was short lived. As a Superintendent, I poured my all into providing this company with dedication and commitment, only to be let go for an unjustifiable reason. This company requires you to travel, in which I was there anytime they called upon me. Very little home time and short notice of when and where you may have to go. Management, has meetings after meetings, only to discuss the next meeting. Expectations are high in this company, whereas you are expected to find problems at their customers properties; thus, to generate revenue. If you have a family life, this isn't the job or company for you. 

Sadly, the one thing that stands out to me the most is that, this company doesn't have any African Americans in management and it appeared that I was the only (Black) Superintendent. Minority is needed amongst this company and the COMPLEXION PROTECTION is obvious.

Overall rating is specific to the Rockville, MD office, but SPECIFIC to division and construction management staff, as the company as a whole seemed exciting at first and there were MANY good people along the way.

In terms of division and construction program management, all focus is on revenue, and the aforementioned management refused to listen to the technical field experts when making project, marketing, and BD decisions, resulting in miscommunication, rework, inadequate delegation of roles and responsibilities, etc.  

I was hired to fix an obviously failing program, and when I saw the inner workings, as well as the clear intent for management to not take their hands off the failing program fast enough and sufficiently enough for anyone to repair the damage.  Complete waste of six weeks.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing. They under bid contracts and put workers in hazardous environments under staffed without proper equipment to finish efficiently 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They say you’ll be on the road maybe a couple of days a week which is untrue. You’re constantly away from home at least 4 days a week if not longer

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Not good. Office staff have annual parties at holidays and provide nothing for their remote staff

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Strenuous work in all elements compounded by deadlines that are overlooked by office staff putting stress on remote employees to complete

First of all, right out the gates the job is full of lies and false promises. From day one working over 14 hours, with no real breaks. The communication is awful and you don’t know your schedule until the day before. Higher ups do not care about or your well being, and will cut you off as soon as they please with no warning, company policy to give no warning to lay offs, I was told same day. The system is terrible and outdated, and you will never know when you’re supposed to be out of town, although, more often than not. Overall, terrible pay, horrible management and communication, would not recommend anyone to work here. 

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