senior training specialist

planner

senior project manager

project supervisor

senior engineer

Energy Northwest

My typical day was starting with a morning briefing with all the crafts in the facility department. Then we would group together and 2 man teams would have a briefing with our supervisor and go over our work orders for the day.
I learned so much in my four year career at Energy Northwest, learned within the Company, Phases of Excellence! Job safety, attention to detail in everyday work. My co-workers were like my second family at work and away from work, team effort,and working together on projects.
It made it easier to peer check and have that second person to verify job scope! and then would have our Supervisor perform a verification and validation on final inspection.We would learn something new everyday and The Management team would conduct evaluations and Company policies included computer base training weekly, quarterly, and annually. 
In the Nuclear Energy Generation station at Energy Northwest we would learn to work safe and if we were not sure about anything! anybody could stop the job, and re-evaluate and discuss issues or concerns.
I enjoyed learning and working with the best tradesman and Management in the Industry.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Employees interest in getting the job done right and safely the first time.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
You must be thinking three steps ahead to make sure your actions do not jeopardize you or someone else. Everyday before you start the work for the day they review a safety issue, or perhaps outline actions from another plant.  You really do not want to be the subject of tomorrows morning meeting.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Great, for the most part I think they have achieved the goal of a work family, working together for the common goal.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
The particular job I was doing was more paperwork and observations of others work than actual hands on. My job was to make sure no foreign materials were allowed to remain inside critical areas, after the work was completed.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Good people good job lil bit of a drive but the moneys worth it seems scary if you start with  no experience but you just fall in line and get stuff done its sweet wish i could go back fulltime

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not knowing what your doing and making mistakes like going over on dosage going into the plant without safety equipment making sure you dont leave the controlled space and walk out without going through a scanner to make sure you dont contaminate a clean space, however you learn fast and in a few weeks its nothing.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Fast when busy tortise slow when yer not on a jump.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Either shielding in drywell and other areas or doing Stocking of PCs and other safety equipmemt for people working in the plant at various stations they don their gear to do whatever inside the plant.

Please God do yourself a favor and look for work else where! The pay and benefits are just good enough to make it hard to leave, but don't worry the schedule and work life balance will ensure you will be dead in no time.  Management will talk over and over about cutting cost. Meanwhile they will go in the other room and pat each other on the backs congratulating themselves for the "Giant" bonus they just approved for each other. If your a Union Member rest assured your contract means nothing but forced arbitration.  Trust me when I say look elsewhere! 

Every department is toxic in it's own special and unique way. There is no real advancement unless you or a friend/family member is part of the good ole boys club. Like most offices jobs, you're expected to show loyalty for a company that could not care one bit about you as a person. Maybe your boss or coworkers are nice, but the bottom line is, they can't change the toxic corporate culture and upper management is blind to it and somehow thinks it's beneficial. It isn't the worst place, but most decent people either keep their heads down just to survive or leave because it's such a negative environment. The only reason to stay is the fantastic insurance package but there are a lot of companies around here with a similar deal, better pay, and a less toxic environment. 

I worked at this company for several years.  When I first started, everything was great, but new additions to the team were abusive and counterproductive and management would not stop their behavior.  Eventually, the company became more and more cost-focused and was piling work on; trying to have us do far more work than could be done with the available resources.  As a salaried, exempt employee, I felt that I was greatly taken advantage-of since I was working many extra hours each week without any additional compensation.  Meanwhile, the aforementioned abusive employees were only working 40 hours a week and not asked to do any extra work to relieve the situation of the rest of the team.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Energy Northwest is a great place to work.  The pay and benefits are outstanding. The leadership sincerely cares about the employees.  For example, during COVID, they continued to pay all of the employees and nobody was let go. The employee engagement survey results are consistenly high year to year.  It is a solid company that if you are looking for a long career, you have come to the right place.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Running a nuclear power plant 24/7 is a challenge.  The nuclear working culture is not for everyone, so you really need to understand the culture that you are getting into.  Energy Northwest provides a great service to the Pacific Northwest.  We have to keep the lights on.

The company itself has ups and downs. They use to recognize employees but seem to be back into only recognizing the staff employees and management. Unions are treated like the unwanted but very necessary evil. The folks that do the work and run the plant aren’t valued. But certainly if you hold a license they will reward you heavily. It’s very much a “who you know, not what you know” environment for promotion. Schedule changes are requested and denied so NSOs are constantly in a state of unrest which isn’t very comforting knowing they are the ones protecting the public.  Women in men’s roles are spoken down too and always reminded through off hand comments that “they are a woman and never could be as good as [men]” discouraging at the very least.

Qualifications and experience mean little compared to family connections and if you were born and raised in the area.  Outsiders have little to no chance for advancement.   Schedules are either a 4/10 or a "Dupont" 12 hour rotation.  Rated as the most dangerous schedule in existence.  4 days on 2 off 3 nights on 2 off 3 days on 2 off 4 nights on 8 days off.  Multi-million dollar judgements have been laid against organizations using this schedule.  It increases health risks including but not limited to Diabetes, Obesity, High Blood Pressure and many more.  Terminations and turn over is plentiful. The hardest part of the job is staying awake on the rotating 12's.

This is overall a very decent company that fosters a culture of Safe and Reliable power generation. Management is better than average and have been consistent throughout these past recent years. Old CEO was pretty well connected to worker bees. New CEO appears to be the same way but time will tell. Pay is not bad but could be better as company is losing some good employees to nearby facilities. But if you value job safety, strong culture, carbon-free power generation, this is it (but you have to not mind living in a rather smaller type city).This is one of the best company to work for if you are in the pacific northwest as future is looking good (project-wise and .

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