crane operator

safety intern

pipefitter

foreman

millwright

Cianbro

The only nice things about working here were meeting a few good co workers, and the Pittsfield location is in an area that needs jobs. However, I cannot stress enough that the negatives outweighed the positives by far. Seriously do yourself a favor and try to find something else. 

Management is absolutely awful in the shop. No one ever seemed to know what was going on at any level, and asking questions about anything was not received well. If you need something with even a semi reliable schedule, think twice. It changed often- what I was told would be a fairly steady schedule with some overtime was completely false. It also changed without much notice, which can be tough if you have children or other things in your life. Even though my job was supposed to be a "fixed base location" position I was often sent to other locations to work for weeks at a time. Equipment is older and constantly breaking. Management is not receptive to suggestions that may improve workflow or really any ideas other than their own. Safety is stressed, but not really enforced. Health insurance is astronomically expensive and doesn't cover much.

I guess it would be fine if you're an easy going single person with not a whole lot else going on in your life, and you don't mind working a dead end job with almost no possibility of advancement- unless of course you get on the bosses favorites list.

great and safe work environment with friendly co workers. Decent pay and good benefits. only complaint is I got injured and tore my ACL in my right knee and was out on disability for a few months while I recovered from surgery. I then returned to work to be laid off 2 weeks after my return and was told I would be contacted soon about another job site they would be sending me. Months passed and no word until one day I receive a call telling me that I was being placed on indefinite layoff and the woman I spoke with then started talking about my missed work time due to my injury as if that was why I was being let go. now I know the sad truth is that many companies do this and as soon as you get injured or have a disability they do every thing they can to get rid of you as if you just painted a target on your back. I was just honestly shocked that Cianbro   was one of them because they were a extremely great company to work for and they never made people feel stupid for not knowing some thing they would just take the time to teach you.

fun place to work most of the time, you spend a lot of time there so the team members you work with become like family. Not so great for parents that want to be involved with their children as the hours can be very demanding. they are willing to pay you for advanced training if you show them a good attitude. great opportunity for young people to gain work experience but not so great for the seasoned construction worker, as they have a lot of responsibility to train greens, as well as keep up with production. They are very safety-oriented, but they have to be with a revolving door of inexperienced people coming through. You also may have a month or two of layoffs in between jobs, so it's like going from 100mph to a dead stop for a while. The only bad thing is when they bring in contractors or other workers from far away that get paid double your pay to do the minimal amount of work when there are plenty of locals looking for work. There is a serious need to revamp the pay scale among the workers so that everyone is paid fairly and not so much of a pay gap.

Management is out of touch with every aspect of their people. If you aren’t drinking the Cianbro kool-aid, you’ll never fit in or be accepted here. Yes, you get to be an employee owner but you also get low pay, bad communication, stressful work conditions because they are very understaffed, tools that might work, vacation time? Never heard of it. Management that could care less about anything that happens to you or what you are working towards to be in the organization, lots of empty promises, and if you travel they’ll pay you perdiem that might give you a half a tank of gas. But hey, at least you might make a buddy or two so you can all be miserable together. Their motto is “Work harder with less”. 

I started working at Cianbro in 2015, and the company was great! The more time that passed, it seemed the worse the company became. The management started shifting, and the people who were gaining control were not nice people. When I began work here, the management was amazing and I had never felt so happy to be part of a great team and company. Once they started "letting people go" or forcing them to resign, it seemed the dynamic of "every employee matters" was slipping through the cracks. I believe that every employee should be treated equally no matter the position. It was not like this anympre. Most coworkers were great, but the higher up positions were great at making you feel small, and not worthy. Everyone starting being on edge about losing their job, especially if you were on the "wrong" side with your friendships. Hopefully things here can turn around, but I don't see that happening!

overall its been a good experience for me.there was no typical day at work,construction throws new challenges at you everyday.i lhave learned so much working here,working on bridges and around cranes,using form systems i had never seen,and just learning new ways to do things in general.the managment.demanding,we had some pretty tough goals ,at times seeming a lil overwhelming but we would always somehow manage to meet their expectations.my co-workers were great,fun to work with and very knowledgable.the hardest part of the job was working 10-12 hours everyday.to me that was a little too much.left me exhausted with no time to really enjoy myself.best part of the job was working with my team members,what a great bunch of people always willing to help and having fun while working

I was very excited to work at cianbro thinking that i would be learning new things, as far as using tools, getting certified running some equipment, because being told you only move on up in training and get to learn. I was very dissapointed that my job was a fire/hole watcher, a job where you stand or sit for 10 or 12 hours a day, or a night. I was allowed to take a fork lift training class I had to do some searching for, after I was promised training in equipment after being sent home for 7 days after operating a man lift with a co-worker that had already been trained. I had signed up for an electrical course training class, and everything had been allset. The class was a few weeks away and my paperwork had been lost and nobody had seen it. so I wasnt able to take the course. At the end of my employment I was on the night shift for a 12 hr night doing hole watch, I had nobody to watch my 10-year old daughter, so I got done.

don't care about the people that have been there for years only new people lowest shop moral only advance if your friends with the rite people or the right gender there looking to promote, they will lead you along to keep you as long as they can new people with not much experience will start pay just below you or more than people that have been there for years they put people in charge of problems that created the problems so they create new ones and they have the saying no one is smarter than everyone in the room but never apply it just use it as political advertisement as most of their sayings sound good but not useful cause they don't apply them steady pay check is all they have to offer

I worked for the company for several years before leaving, while working there, I met many good and kind people, I worked on many different jobs and learned a good amount, but I found that there was much favoritism especially toward more female employees, they got special treatment, and better career advancement, it was clear to see by other workers and myself, there were also general foreman that would treat you poorly if you weren't out drinking with them every night, it was very hard traveling with family at home, and they weren't understanding of that, pay was very low for the job type and work, and insurance wasn't very good either, I do not recommend anyone to work for this company, unless your willing to dedicate your life to them for little returm

typical day included description of daily activities with drive to goal but no huge push to overshoot the daily goal in a safe manner
I learned a lot about many aspects of construction including my training in pipe welding craft position and the ability to work with others outside my craft to all accomplish the same end goal
my coworkers were great where we all could see the others value, work together and meet goals in an employee owned company
hardest part of the job was traveling away from my family
most enjoyed part was the money and benefits

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Crane operator 1 salary reported	$36.00 per hour
Safety intern 3 salaries reported	$23.50 per hour
Pipefitter 1 salary reported	$28.60 per hour
Foreman 3 salaries reported	$36.50 per hour
Millwright 2 salaries reported	$17.00 per hour

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