engineer

mechanical engineer

electrical engineer

structural engineer

communication specialist

Enercon-Services,-Inc

This company's main source of income is as a consulting firm to the nuclear power generation industry which is filled to the brim with politics and cluttered processes that will be constantly misinterpreted. Most people steer clear of the industry for good reason and being a consultant in the industry can be considerably worse that being a utility employee.

The management crew of the company is the good old boys club and the people they expedite through promotions follow suit. Management is incapable of taking the blame for personal failings and will always pass the blame onto their subordinates. Overall leadership is very poor, unethical, and more self interested than part of the team. Hypocrisy throughout: they will preach excellence then turn around and produce haphazard products and templates themselves; they will preach positive communication then turn around and gossip and disrespect their employees; they will preach efficiency then insist you participate in the most inefficient processes conceivable.

The biggest problems you will learn about quickly:

* Your job boils down to filling out a time-sheet and being billable 100% of the time, anything less will be graded as poor performance and hamper your ability to get a raise. Even when working on billable work, you have to beg project managers to assign you hours. You are expected to fill in your timesheet daily despite not being assigned hours. If you simply do not work on the projects until you are given the appropriate hours, then you are blamed for schedule slippage.

* Projects are routinely under budgeted and fast tracked. The only engineers that "look good" are the ones that donate their personal time after working hours to make up for the impossible budgets and schedules. But there is no pay-off for donating your time, you will still be graded as average.

* Management will refuse to invest in training new graduates and will instead just dump projects on them and expect them to figure it out. If you are lucky you will have a compassionate senior engineer around to show you the ropes, but the company will not budget for them to help you out.

The serious problems you will find out about years of service:

* Company's business model is to offer slightly higher than average salaries for new hires then keep them stagnated with very small raises. A performance review rating of "meets expectations" nets a raise of 1%, then lie to your face about how the decision was made. I have seen some employees receive a 1% raise while they raised the rate they bill that client for that employee's time by 20%! The client's expectations of you then rise since they are paying so much for your time, but you aren't compensated for it.

* Often times the company likes to fill management roles with former managers from the utilities who are only interested in making a quick buck on their way to retirement and will throw their subordinates under the bus left and right. Internal promotions come first and foremost to the brown-nosers who placate management rather than to the most effective leaders. Many good engineers have quit over the extremely poor promotion decisions made.

The issues go far beyond what I've outlined, but the above should make it pretty clear for job seekers that Enercon is a poor choice for a long

I worked here for a little over a year. I was hired on as a biologist and yet I can count on one hand how many projects I did that were relevant to my job role. I put up with it because the pay was decent at the time, and I was promised a promotion time and again which never happened once my annual review came to fruition. It was an excuse of, "the company was restructured this year so there isn't a push for any promotions now." To add insult to injury, there are now significant lay offs due to "lack of work" which I was included in. Which, ironically, is up to the managers to give us the work, yet they were not reprimanded whatsoever for not finding enough clients for us to do projects for. They all still got to keep their jobs and truck along as if nothing happened. I am the sole provider for my family and this did not matter in the slightest to them when they decided I should be one of the ones let go. I'm just completely at a loss.  This was also not the first time they did a massive lay off (prior time happening during COVID), and it certainly wont be the last. I should have seen the writing on the wall whenever tenured employees were leaving for other companies all throughout this year. Whatever you do, find a more reputable consulting firm to work for. Loyalty here will indefinitely result in them spitting in your face.

TL;DR - Was promised a promotion, was instead let go along with my entire department and good chunk of employees elsewhere in the company.

Working at Enercon is very volatile.

There are good projects and good teams that allow for a great work experience; however, when a bad project is assigned, it can quickly complicate and monopolize your schedule and overshadow any good during the time you're assigned to it. A "bad" project is typically characterized by unresponsive/lacking project resources or leadership that leaves you wasting time trying to figure out next steps that are truly actionable/productive to make some progress by the next deadline. Additionally, after two or three really bad projects, there's a constant anxiety about the next.

Time sheets are not stressful because they are annoying to fill out; they are stressful due to having to request/justify more hours for over-budget projects.

Flexible hours with the ability to work 9 hour days to have every other Friday off, as well as hybrid remote work. Work is typically not hard, but can be very dull. Meeting client expectations can have certain projects fly off the rails in terms of stress and work loads.

The company has recently been bought out by private equity, and the benefits were largely slashed with no real replacement. There used to be company stock program and gainshare, both are gone and replaced with nothing. Lots of superficial promotions that involve increased workload with no increase in pay. Employee retention is a seemingly constant concern from management, but nothing seems to be done about it. Every employee hates the timesheet system, and is referenced on every exit interview, but is never changed or improved.

It's not a bad place to get your foot in the door for new engineers, but even with the recent brain drain, company advancement is still difficult.

They will lure you in with promises of good job experience, great work environment, and friendly culture. Expect to be overworked, stressed about being billable, and fighting for project hours.

Working on personal time is a common practice. Management makes promises of hiring more people due to the workload but takes no action. The workload continuously increases and the only people being hired are the ones that replace the current employees leaving. 

Mandatory OT is expected due to the ever increasing workload. At the time I left, we were expected to work minimum 60 hours/week. Also, good luck getting paid for all the OT you work because they will try and get you to eat some of those hours and wont give you the hours to charge on the project. So essentially, you work on your personal time, they call it "professional time."

The attrition rate is enormously high due to the unrealistic workload, toxic culture, and disorganization. The only tenured employees are usually management. When almost the entire division are new hires or have been with the company for less than a year, that's a huge red flag.

ENERCON is a great place to work due to its strong mission-driven culture, commitment to employee growth, and supportive work environment. The company empowers its employees to make a meaningful impact by addressing critical energy and environmental challenges. It offers robust professional development opportunities, including leadership programs, technical training, and support for continuing education, allowing individuals to grow within the organization across various sectors. ENERCON also promotes work-life balance through flexible schedules and hybrid work options. Employees benefit from a comprehensive benefits package that includes a 401(k) with matching, tuition reimbursement, generous paid time off, and employer-paid health and wellness coverage. The workplace culture is often described as collaborative and uplifting, with many employees praising the opportunities for advancement and the quality of their colleagues. These factors contribute to ENERCON’s strong employee satisfaction and reputation as an employer of choice.

My experience there was kind of a mixed bag.  I got a lot of valuable experience but very little of it was positive.  If you are a new engineer, your manager will make or break your experience there.  In my case, I was given around 6 to 8 calculations at a time with minimal support or direction.  There will be bottlenecks that are outside of your control and if anything goes sideways and delays happen, expect to be blamed 100% for the outcome.  Their favorite phrase is to “have a questioning attitude”.  While I agree in principle, in practice it is just a way of pushing responsibility down.  Example: first calc I ever did, I was given a structure to analyze, finished the job, and it turned out I wasn’t given the full set of drawings.  When I was getting totally dressed down, I tried to explain I was working off the drawings I was given.  Response: “you should have had a questioning attitude and asked if this was everything you needed.”  Literally everything is your fault and there is no reasoning with these people.  Great pay but I’d rather make half as much and not deal with the BS.

ENERCON is a great place to work! We have advancement opportunities, highlighted by our career pathing. We have a great training department that has taken into consideration what employees and our industry need. We work on exciting projects. We are heavily involved in upgrading our grid here in the United States and helping to engineer America's energy future. We have beautiful offices that are designed for not only work but also areas for team building such as a study, huge break rooms, or a ping pong room. Our company is very safety driven which is very important for our employees. We offer a great work life balance with a hybrid schedule after 90 days and an Alternate Work Schedule that allows me to be off every other Friday. Everyone is great to work with. Our Senior Leadership Team has an open-door policy including our President. We have monthly and quarterly meetings to discuss the company’s revenue, talk about projects upcoming and company happenings.

TLDR: NO! AVOID THIS TOXIC PLAGUE OF A COMPANY!

Starts off fine. Eventually management will micro manage you on the daily with unrealistic workloads and deadlines.

 If a fresh graduate, grab the free work experience and run! Initial pay is competitive but promotions barely keep up with inflation rates. If mid level or higher do not waste time applying. Pay compensations are a joke and will not be treated with respect. Expect to be pressured into working OT, charged as straight time btw, and asked to work “professional time”

Oh and if something happens to you medically, they will expect you to come in and work even with a doctors note. I speak from experience. Broke a leg and “was expected” to drive into the office despite having a doctors note stating I can not travel, drive, or bare weight.

Their values claim to care about you and safety but it’s all lies. They only view you as charged hours for the client so upper management can cash in on yearly bonuses.

-10/10 DO NOT RECOMMEND

You know it's bad when a client comments that there are too many managers and not enough engineering happening. I've never been in a place where engineers are the ones directly making the company money/profit and are treated so disrespectfully. The company has been lean now for some time as they realized that they can maximize profit by keeping the workforce at a minimum, underbidding projects and making people work "professional time" to meet unrealistic schedules. They cut compensation without warning and still expect the same work ethic and drive as when we were employee-owned. Long hours, often unpaid (even though they advertise paid OT, it is subject to the project/project manager), unrealistic deadlines, no control of clients. It is a punitive culture that doesn't care about employee growth or satisfaction, but only about profit. Even though they sell your services as an engineer, you're nothing more than a cog in the wheel, regardless of how valuable you are.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Engineer 15 salaries reported	$88,153 per year
Mechanical engineer 3 salaries reported	$87,400 per year
Electrical engineer 6 salaries reported	$90,833 per year
Structural engineer 3 salaries reported	$80,667 per year
Communication specialist 3 salaries reported	$26.00 per hour

Working at ENERCON SERVICES, INC: Company Overview and Reviews

ENERCON SERVICES, INC

ENERCON SERVICES, INC Ratings

Popular jobs at ENERCON SERVICES, INC

Salary Satisfaction

Job Seeker Tools

Employer Tools

Browse

Stay Connected