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The plant I worked at was unionized. Pros are great benefits and pay, with contractual pay raises planned out a few years in advance. Con being that do-nothing employees don't get fired because you have to actually be an endangerment to the facility to be fired. What's the saying, "If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything".

Rotating shift work has its pros and cons. Once every 5-6 weeks you have a 6 day weekend. Unfortunately, some times you only have 32 hours between a day's work week then going to a night's work week. This also brings in built-in overtime.

Despite some individuals that are not proactive, or downright refuse to work, they are all intelligent individuals. Everyone can do the job if they want to, they do not have any limitations beyond their own work ethic. Easy to get along with all of them and to find common interests.

Job involved some outside work. Which is horrible on the really hot, humid days. Even worse when it is in the middle of winter, and the wind blows across the lake, and 24" of snow falls throughout your shift. I understand they cannot control the weather. Could have figured a way to minimize outside equipment requiring daily interactions, or even picked a different location entirely. Neither of those options are feasible, so much so that they're just as likely to change the weather. Still, I am writing this just so I am being upfront about the conditions. If you can deal with extreme weather on either end of the spectrum, this will not be a problem. If you can't, I have made you informed.

HR is probably the worst I've come across. You know how HR tends to act like your buddy, and that they're sometimes there to help you out, to make your workplace a safe and friendly place? Well, the HR at this specific location at least has the decency to be upfront about not giving two cents about you. HR and management have helped create an "Us vs Them" atmosphere. If you have a personal issue affecting your work, don't tell them. If you have an issue with a coworker, don't tell them. If you find an issue on the property, even if dangerous to employee safety, don't tell them. The best you can hope for is that they take your credit. The worst is they keep a record of everything single slip that you make until they have a list and can easily fire you. They even go as far as blackmailing non-management to report about the doings of their peers. Which ends up not saving them in the end anyways. I hear this animosity is not company wide. Conversations with temporarily transfers for outages make it seem like grass is greener at other stations. This station employees saying good things about others, and other station's employees saying we have it bad. Might be due to the worse weather and the fact that everything in the surrounding cities is falling apart because everything went bankrupt or moved overseas. I would be upset too if I stayed in what is practically a ghost town for over a decade.

I cherished a lot of the people I worked with, my peers. I liked the actual work. Did not like that some did not pull their weight. I did not like that HR and Management seemed to be actively trying to get everyone fired. If everyone is gone, who's going to run the facilities, management? . . . Wait, that happened once due to a strike because they pulled the rug out from under employees about to retire. You were expecting a pension? No 401k because it was never offered because a pension was promised. One year to retirement? Sorry, changed our mind, no pension. No we will not move the funds into a 401k. A union strike happened, and after several weeks of management trying to run the plant, a deal was made. Again, this was at this station. The company has a lot of power plants and other facilities. I couldn't find any report of any thing like this happening anywhere else.

Oh, and horrible planning for training operators. Instead of hiring and training new personnel for a specific unit shortly after that unit's outage, they hire/train before the outage. Hard to qualify individuals when the qualified are too busy prepping for an outage to give OJT/TPE. Plus, once my class left the classroom, the plant operators/shift didn't know what to do with us. Apparently we came in unexpected. Management took a few months to figure out to train such a large class out in the plant at one time. Still didn't work out well. Best method would have been to make sure people were available to give OJT/TPE by having the new hires enter the plant 4-6 weeks after an outage.

This review will be slanted most toward the Operations Department at their nuclear power plants. I cannot speak to other positions that work a more stable position.

Standard Work Required:
A typical shift in On-Shift operations will involve a week long period on each shift, in a rotating fashion (Days- Nights-Afternoons), or a series of 12 hour shifts swapping back and forth between days and nights. Some days the work will be hard, and others it will be minimal. You will be expected to do medium to hard physical labor in temperatures of up to 120 degrees and humid. Adherence to safety standards and procedural compliance is required at all times.

Management:
First Line Supervisors and their direct reports (Operations Shift Management) will very much feel close to the work group, but beyond that Upper site management is productivity focused and generally uncaring of the staff. Corporate management is entirely disengaged from the personnel responsible for maintaining safe operation and often times reveal their thoughts in the way they address issues.

Culture:
Depending on the station, this will vary- but all sites are purposely understaffed to achieve "Best-In-Fleet" department staffing targets. The result being that every department is overworked. This is felt in a general attitude on the ground and amongst middle management and has gone unheard or unaddressed for half a decade, all in pursuit of adding more shareholder value. Grumbling about the situation is constant, and is generally regarded as unsafe. Overly tired staff are more prone to making errors, and this has happened multiple times at sites all across the Constellation fleet.

Hardest Parts:
The nature of rotating shift-work takes a toll on  person's body and mind. Adding in the overtime due to staffing and poor treatment of individual contributors resulting in quitting, the work/life balance for operations staff is difficult to achieve, but some still find it manageable. I personally do not.

Best Parts:
The work is challenging, the sites require knowledgeable staff that can comprehend the proper plant responses and consequences of incorrect actions. The people you will work with, either in the Union or in lower management are all smart and engaged in the importance of the task they have. When you do not have work to do, there is no punishment for relaxing- since the Federal Government requires a minimum staff on shift for emergencies you will have stretches where you are not expected to work in the plant after completing a task or maintenance activity. It doesn't make up for the hours spent on night shifts away from home and family, but at least it isn't as hot.

Constellation Nuclear, once Exelon Nuclear was once a great place to work.   Under the leadership of the previous Chief Nuclear Officer and down through the Senior VPs to the nuclear stations, although it wasn't easy, things were fair.  It seemed that Senior Leaders (and I mean VPs) really cared about people.   Not so much anymore.   We now have an intrusive micro-managing executive team like you wouldn't believe.  They essentially know very little about what most of us do.  However, they have no problem telling people what to do and how things should be done.  They either don't understand what it takes to do the work, or they don't care to understand.  They need to stop trying to 'protect the narrative' and learn how to create 'real results' that are sustainable.  It's extremely frustrating and very hard to live with on a day to day basis.   Steer clear of this company or you'll get hired and be looking for a new job within a year.

The last 14 years working at Constellation Energy was as construction administrator. The job entailed ensuring various work done by contractors were performed correctly and according to company procedures and policies and in accordance with said contracts. Assignments included various types of mechanical contracts. My main responsibility  was the disassembly and reassembly of the reactor every year. This included developing schedule, writing and reviewing procedures (both work and radiation procedures),ensuring all equipment was ready for use,training the contractors, oversight, documentation review, establishing and monitoring goals,and keeping up on new tools and methods. What was learned was time management. Plus the more the people who do the work know what is expected the better the plan is executed. The size of management was large. They treated all fairly well. They well educated and experienced. The work culture was good most all tried over time to get better at what we did, make power safely. The hard part to deal with was the radiation. I enjoyed the development. of new ways and ideas of performing our work.
I started out as a mechanic for about 5 years. Then became a supervisor for 7 years. After that an assistant general supervisor for over 2 years. This lead to the construction administrator.

I'm about 15 years into my professional career, and I have never worked at a company where my perspectives were listened, valued, and encouraged as much as they are at Constellation.  I have felt welcomed and supported from the day I started at Constellation.  No matter what question I have, or what team I am working with people are ready and willing to help each other out.  I am not micromanaged, I am supported. I get the opportunity to work on challenging and fascinating problems that keep excited about my work. I am proud of the difference we are making in the transition to carbon-free energy future.  There is a huge amount of professional development readily available (so much I haven't even scratched the surface yet.) They are thoughtful about the decisions they make and how they impact their employees, the community and their customers.  As a mom at Constellation, I get 16 weeks of 100% paid parental leave when I have my baby.  My last company only offered 8 weeks at 70% pay (Terrible, but sadly not the worst). When it comes to Diversity,  they walk the talk and that is a breath of fresh air. 

They lack in training when working and claim you would be prepared in 2 weeks but they fail to prepare you. They train you partially and expect you to complete the work.  The fail to give you the proper tools in order to do the job.  They send you to a different site for training but they do it differently. They fail to communicate properly with the task at hand. They lack in sense of urgency when doing the task. I am not criticizing a that you should rush the work but make sure you do it properly when working in a fast pace. When an employee comes in with a determined mindset and wants to work and they claim you would be ready and don't prepare you at all. They would emphasize safety 100% I agree  but lie in training or doing the task. Its like they are handicapping  a employee potential in learning and doing the task on time or early. In all honestly if they prepared you in the first 2 weeks properly everything would be fine including proper communication.

The pay and benefits are good. It’s a union job. You get a yearly bonus. Vacation time. There’s tuition reimbursement. Potential to get into other department since it’s in-house security. People take pay cuts to get out our department. 

They can’t keep fully staffed. We have trouble keeping new people. The schedule is hard. 12 hours overnight. Lots of overtime so you’re not guaranteed your days off. You have to burn vacation to make sure your days off. You will be spending a lot of time at work. 

All the security equipment doesn’t function properly so an otherwise easy job gets annoying quickly. Go stare out your window for 2 hours and tell me if you want to do that every night. Lots of redundancy that are a pain. 

There are chances for promotion in security. You don’t even have to be good at your current job to get promoted. Many of them didn’t even know much about being a security officer before becoming a supervisor. 

If you work a bad job low paying job then this is a good option. You’ll at least make good money. 

A typical workday would be coming in, looking at the ticketing system (may already have done so because we have tickets come to our cell phone), acknowledge the ticket, go to clients desk if required or call, and resolve clients issue. 
I've learned to much to explain in this forum. 
Management is great! They have been instrumental in making me the tech savy individual I am today. They have backed me in my personal and educational goals.
My coworkers are awesome. They really care about your well being as a person and a coworker.
There isn't a hard part to the job because I really enjoy working their and I want to learn. So for me this has been a great environment.
The comradery we have as a team is the most enjoyable part of the job. If it wasn't contract employment and I was a permanent employee it would be the perfect situation for me personally and professionally.

my typical day at work was coming in traning at a fake door with other workers sitting down to have a meeting and then going in to a feild to knock doors,i have learned that there are alot of different personality and that they interact differently when your are at their front door. management was not to professinal there were a lot of racies people that worked at the job and employees did not care about one another instead of building you up they tare you down.the most hardest part of the job was being out there all day in 110 degree weather and not making one sale and the bad thing about that was if you didnt make any sales that day you did not get a check. the most enjoyable part of the day was getting off and being able to go home to my son.

While Constellation Energy is a great, positive place to work as a full-time employee, contractors are often left out of team activities and events leading to low morale and motivation. This company is veering more and more toward off-sourcing their operational tasks, while continuing to bring contractors to develop other duties and everyday tasks as needed. Additionally, long time employees seem to have "cliques" which will most definitely make you feel like you're back in high school. Awesome place to work IF you can secure a full-time position with benefits, otherwise you may want to consider a different employer. Contractors are treated like disposable cups in this place, and you will feel like one too!

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