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The benefits are excellent relative to all Denver companies in all industries and they are good relative to other Denver Oil & Gas companies, if you don't mind taking all the risk in retirement planning. Most rules are dependent on the department and supervisors, but typically the hours are flexible. Several employees have taken initiative by joining organizations and/or furthering their education and very few people make it in to management in a reasonable amount of time. There are rules that prohibit people from getting promoted transferring across departments and you cannot jump pay grades or titles, so consider your title carefully if you have ambitious career goals when entering this company. The company appears to be growing more at the top. They pull people in from the parent companies ConocoPhillips and Duke Energy and the Big 4 to get the best positions and responsibilities. The people at the bottom get stuck in a box no matter how hard they try to improve their education and leadership potential. There are a few exceptions, seek them out for their advice if they will give it to you. Middle managers are good and easy to get along with for the most part, just don't expect to go any where fast if you are starting at a low level position, like a staff accountant. Reasonable expectations are being a staff accountant for 7 years and then a senior accountant for 7-12 years and then into a supervisory position. They don't even meet these mediocre reasonable standards with the majority of their employees, some of the whom have recieved advanced degrees. They need to provide more opportunities for individual achievements in other ways if they are not going to promote people in a traditional and fair way.

Many positions to chose from. Once your in, you can start a life routine, and enjoy the comfort of a reliable income. DCP is a Fortune 500 company who doesn’t always pay the most, but will carry you through economic downs, that’s the trade off. 
I started as a mechanic, and it’s about 80% physical work, and 15% paperwork, and ordering parts, so it’s not the best job in the company, but it gets you in the door. I put 5 years in, and then I got the best job that you can get being in the field. Well, that’s what I think. Pay is great, and it always was, and is always getting better. Lots of amazing benefits! Not a lot of people quit once they get on. The “Work force of Today” is some what BS, but they are just training you to be a more important person to them, and eventually they pay you the dollars, and you become an asset. Most of the time your alone, or with you small team to do jobs I like services on equipment, or emergency repairs. Overtime is available if you want, but no one forces it, unless it’s critical. But you don’t mind, because you feel like your apart of the bigger picture, and feels like a competition between our facility and other plants. I think if your interested, you should apply, and if you don’t get a job the first time, keep applying. It took me 3 years, and 3 interviews before I got on, but I’m the happiest I’ve ever been with any job, because it’s not my job, it’s my Career! Oh, and they give you 3 to 5 weeks paid time off every year, depending on how long you’ve worked there, and how old you are. And they will carry your time off over to the next year if you don’t use it all up, but only a certain amount. Yeah, it’s great!

In my current role as a Commercial Operations Managing Director in the Oil and Gas industry, my responsibilities are similar to some extent to that of a Chief Operating Officer.   I do a lot of customer relations to understand and strategize with my clients the needs they will have related to drilling more oil / gas wells.   I then lead my supply chain, engineering, ad operations groups to see what we would need to purchase for the customer’s project, what pipelines or plants we need to engineer, and finally what would it take to build and operate those additional assets needed for the customer.   Along with my team and finance, I lead a contract proposal that would be win-win for the customer and my company paying back the investment made by our firm plus a certain ROI.   Finally, my team and I take the proposal to the customer to discuss its details.   After an agreement is reached, I keep contact with all parts involved and the client through the execution of the project to ensure its effectiveness and to continue to build the customer relationship.

Hence, my daily responsibilities align with getting work done, and execute efficiently and effectively any portion of the project; my job entails performing this example with all the customers I possess.

If you're starting out in your career and you want to work for a company that's interested in your development, look elsewhere. I spent four very productive and largely unnoticed years at the bottom of the DCP Midstream foodchain. True story, a position opened up I was interested in. And when it came time to fill the position, I didn't get one look. In fact the person hiring the position said he'd stop by my cube to talk to me one afternoon. I shot him an email looking into when he might come by, and he was already driving back to catch his flight to Denver. On top of this, he flat out lied to me saying he stopped by my cube before leaving, but I wasn't there. That morning, I hadn't left my cube once between him stopping me in the hall and that phone call. The subsequent hirings all came externally. That was a perfect microcosm of my time there. The company is also very tight. When the gas industry was setting record prices in 2008. Our yearly bonus increased by a whopping 2%.

DCP is a great company to work for as long as there isn't any layoffs involve.  The Plant supervisor i work for is an honest hard working guy and has always been up front with me.  I was suppose to be transferred to another facility and instead I am getting laid off.  The supervisor is such a great guy he even advised us to put in at other plant facilities and he would let us use him as a reference.  I have learned a lot form this company about the way a facility is suppose to be ran and how to be a operator.  The co-workers are really good people to work for and the supervisors will do what they can to keep the employees happy.  The hardest part of the job for me, well truthfully once I learned the process and the flow everything became so much easier.  So I guess that would have been the hardest part.  As of right now there isn't anything hard about it.The most enjoyable part of the job for me is that its a one man shift ran 24 hours around the clock so your by yourself and you don't have anyone breathing down your back to get things done.  Its at your own pace as long as its done and done the right way the first time, and your not wasting company money.

Operations Supervisor, Giddings Gas Plant
 Manages, controls and implements improvements in the day to day operations of 100 MMCFD gas processing facility.
 Oversees the preparation and management of both capital and expense budgets of the plant
 Carries out or oversees plant audits, troubleshooting and process development on optimization, maintenance of process integrity and facilities the development of short term and long term operations plans
 Ensure alignment of plant and field activities with other departments of the company by the way of reporting and regular interactions
 Evaluate the design concepts of capital projects with regard to functionality, performance, reliability, availability, operability and cost
 Evaluate project execution plans, contracting strategies, and contractor / vendor competencies, and monitor the projects during procurement, construction and commissioning.
 Ensures safe operation of the facility by utilizing Process Safety Management, and company approved rules and regulations, conducts and coordinates monthly safety meetings for plant personnel

Beware!  You may have the best of intentions to support and succeed, but this management team will only set you up to fail.  Management and HR simply ignore requests for feedback or if they do acknowledge the request, they simply lie to your face.  They present a friendly front, but behind the scenes there is a different story brewing, which they will not share.  Two-faced.  They simply lead you on and you never know what's being discussed behind your back.  This HR department (or lack thereof) is the worst I have ever encountered.  Management may want to cut you based on the salary that HR negotiated with you.  They think that everyone but themselves are overpaid and want to cut back on salaries so they will come in under budget and get bigger bonuses.  You will probably work in excess of 40 hours per week, but they will not pay you for it.  Very low morale, distrust and high turnover.  Tread lightly.  Definitely a "short-term" employment solution, but don't stop interviewing for a better position with an ethical company.

Working at DCP was great from the start of the day till the end of the day. I learned Many things at DCP the most memorable are the classes they sent me to as an intern. I was able to attend Siemens PLC class, Advanced safety class and company classes in addition to my daily work schedule. Management at DCP wanted me to succeed and showed it in sending me to these classes even though I was Just an Intern. The hardest part of my job was being on call in the extreme cold and brutal hot weather we had but DCP provided all the equipment to make it bearable in any tempter.  The most enjoyable part of this job was the satisfaction of knowing my mentor trusted me to build devices which were essential to the company without being there to watch over me.

Company has lost ALL of its "Family" style ran business. When i first got hired, the company employees were friendly, kind, and we actually did stuff as a team. This culture now has become a cut-throat company and everyone is out for brownie points. 

DCP Runs on the "Buddy system" or "its not what you know, but who you know. 

Management has become a total joke, constant lies! I dont remember when we were told the truth on a particular issue. 

DCP is all about the money, and not the employees. I even heard upper management tell an employee that NEEDED and requested an H2S monitor, that "money is tight right now, Danger is the Nature of our Business!" Who runs a company like that????

Just be very cautious when applying, the Grass is not greener on this side.

What is the best part of working at the company?
they could really take care of you.


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
if you're not from the area, they will basically black ball you. its so remote that they can just say anything to discredit you.i had a very bad experiance

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
imo they didn't care what you knew or did they just want you to tow some political line. I felt the work was too dangerous to not mention the hundreds of safety infractions and I paid for it.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
not get paid for an hour drive to the plant, try and find venders to buy materials from, not get paid to drive an hour home.  mix in some random harassment and thats pretty much my experience

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