utility worker

camp manager

lead cook

janitor

district manager

ESS Support Services Worldwide

ESS is one of the leaders in Support Services in the Gulf of Mexico. 
Most of the hitches run 14 days on and 14 days off. I currently work a 21 & 21. I work 12 to 14 hours a day 7 days a week. I have had to travel a good bit with this job although it is normally just to a heliport or a dock where I park for 2-3 weeks at a time. 

The management is good at trying to support the locations offshore as best as they can. It is not as easy as you might think. There are logistical issues that are unforeseen and some times hard to overcome yet they try hard. Form time to time what the office wants does not line up with what the clients expect. Yet we work it on and come to a happy medium. 

The workplace culture really depends on the Location and Company you are working for. Some are better that others. I am currently on  the SHELL Perdido with a POB (Persons On Board) of 140 to 168. We do four meals a day and four breaks times a day. Laundry and cleaning rooms, offices and public ares. Basically I  run the hotel on the location. 

The hardest parts of my job is being away from home for a month at a time. While being on call 24 hours a day. Some days can become long. 

The most enjoyable part of the job is the people i get to meet and work with. They become your second family and you build bonds with them that are like no other place I have ever worked. I also get 3 weeks off at a time to spend with friends and family.

Prepare and manage Health, Safety, and Environmental programs in order to meet client needs. Act as liaison with customers, preserving good client communications at all levels of operation. Monitor all personnel and business activities to verify total compliance with organization’s food safety protocols. Maintain, track, and analyze all safety and accident data and records, correcting all safety issues on assigned locations. Coordinate worker’s compensation, fleet incident, and medical claim cases. Perform post-accident/incident root cause analysis to report findings and determine causes as well as ascertain where improvements to practices, standards, procedures, or systems are warranted. Oversee health, safety, environment, and quality assurance policies, procedures, protocols, and legal requirements and assist management in implementation to ensure complete compliance. Guarantee due diligence records are maintained and audits are conducted.

ESS used to be a good company to work for. They respected and appreciated their workers. I have been working for ESS over 5 years. At one time they paid me a fair wage and everything was going wonderful. Then a client made a false story about an altercation on the location I was working for. In an instance I was let go from that location and labeled by ESS . It was as if they had forgotten all the good work I have done for them. Ever since then I lost over $4 an hour and haven't been considered for a promotion. I have almost 15 years of professional kitchen experience and a Associates of Applied Science/Culinary Arts Degree. I have given 5 years of my life to a company I considered to be my life career, all just to get kicked down to square one. Not a very professional company. A lot of gossip and here say amongst office workers.

If all you're interested in is money then you might be able to handle the sacrifices you'll have to make in order to do this job. You're going to be away from home for long periods of time (weeks or months), work anywhere from between 84 and 100+ hours per week and most likely not going to get any decent sleep if you want to do anything other than work. Job experience is heavily defined by who is managing you so if you have a jerk as your boss then you're most likely going to hate the job. Otherwise, if the stars align and you get some light weeks (84 hours) and a decent boss, things can be stellar.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Travel and work site locations 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Mid Management and their expectations placed on associate’s without proper training and or orientation 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Great at project level site visit from most mid to upper management created unnecessary stress and drams

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Great until asked to perform tasks or projects most with unreasonable timeframes due to middle management waiting till last minute to request such or providing information for KPIs that only benefits the requesting manager

Maybe the worst place I've ever worked at. Nobody wants to work for this company here in Alaska and they are losing both good people and contracts. You have to watch your hours as they have a problem have with keeping track of your hours and if they owe you any extra money you will might not ever see it as they'll pocket it for them selves. Well if you want to see or get a little experience in a hospitality work these guys are always hiring ( can't keep anyone good ) this is your place then move on to better and greener grasses and NO B.S  ! ! !  like here.

What is the best part of working at the company?
None onsite management is lazy just like the office management 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with clients who don’t respect the company period 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Pitiful never having ample enough time or supplies to do job safe and efficient 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Miserable actually your coworkers are okay the ones who aren’t in the click per say but that’s not typical

Management is a bit all over the place. They had a bunch of new hires when I went but I don’t know if they’re always hiring or what, but either way a ton of them didn’t know what they were doing, in addition to not having enough servers at the beginning of the season when I went caused the days to be quite stressful. If you can get over a couple stressful days, the good days are really worth it. Going with friends + the views + people you meet + pay makes it worth it. (Watch your pay stub like a hawk)

What is the best part of working at the company?
The ability to have your workers thrive in all aspects is top tier

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I didn’t experience stressful times because we always worked as a team 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Diverse large groups of variety cultures 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Work from 5am to 6 pm lunch at 12 and  2 15min breaks

I started out as a housekeeper, then as a baker then as an assistant cook and ended up being a cook. Not a bad company and if you really show that you are a hard worker, they will keep you. The only drawback is the pay is not competitive enough for the work that you do. Management does recognize your hard work and you will be compensated. I learned a lot from this company.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Utility worker 1 salary reported	$12.00 per hour
Camp manager 6 salaries reported	$1,900 per week
Lead cook 3 salaries reported	$15.67 per hour
Janitor 2 salaries reported	$14.00 per hour
District manager 2 salaries reported	$80,000 per year

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