forester

program leader

archaeologist

contract manager

data specialist

Eocene Environmental Group, Inc.

Working at CNUC has been a good experience so far. Benefits are good. It is great to have your own company vehicle to take home, my personal car is rarely used now.  They also pay for my gym membership. Management is responsive and care about what my concerns are. Safety is taken very seriously. There is always mandatory overtime which may not be for everyone. Supervisors are very encouraging about my growth with the company and it looks like they only promote from within. Finding a bathroom can be a real pain. The job can sometimes get lonely but my team has been good to chat with. Its encouraged to text and call your peers which is strangely refreshing. Its a lot of customer service and you WILL get difficult homeowners which is probably my least favorite part of the job. The pay isn't the best but its good if you are looking to start somewhere in the forestry field. This job is not for everyone but if you like being outside and can deal with the occasional bad homeowners, you will like it. Overall, I have enjoyed my time here.

This is a great company to work for! The benefits, team, and culture are better than anywhere I have worked previously.  As a Consulting Utility Forester (CUF) I get to spend most days out in the woods amongst the trees, identifying hazard/danger trees and helping landowners understand the unique relationship between their trees and the utilities that service the community.  The job presents enough challenge to keep me on my toes without becoming overwhelming.  CNUC has helped me to further myself professionally by helping me to earn industry certifications.  Some days the weather and difficult customer interactions can be a little tough to deal with but those days are few and far between.  Most days I get to develop my skills as an arborist and teach people about their trees.  I love this job!

The job is fairly easy and straightforward but throughout my time here, their standards for production and quality have ramped up significantly with no pay increase to correlate. I feel overworked and under compensated. The turnover rate is so high because the company is essentially a stepping stone for anyone in the industry. This job is great way to get into the vegetation management industry, but once you gain experience here, there are other companies that start paying at a significantly higher wage for the same work. The company pays for your ISA certification test, but once you're certified you only get a slight wage increase. There's just no real reason anyone would stay here after obtaining their ISA certification because the pay is not competitive.

I think CNUC is a fantastic company to work for. We are given things that are competitors do not offer, such as a yearly clothing allowance. If you want to achieve higher work positions, it is possible, and management will help you get there. I started as a marking crew member and eight months later I accepted a position as a work planner. The company as a whole feels like family, and so many are very friendly and willing to reach out and help. Even though the company is nationwide, it feels like everyone works closely together. 

I get to spend my day working in the woods, inspecting trees, talking to landowners about their properties, and travelling all over the region seeing different areas. I love this job. 

At the time of this posting I am a relatively new hire of 9 months. In that time I have had the opportunity to experience so much of what CNUC has to offer. I have been presented with opportunities which allow me to put my name out into the company as well as my show my work ethic. CNUC wants you to succeed and grow within the company with many chances to prove yourself as a hard working employee. I could not have asked for a better company to work for right out of college. Everyone I have met has been friendly and helpful with any questions I have and have helped me as much as they can. There are no stupid questions at CNUC only questions not asked. 

The company has a good mission and does interesting work but is very poorly managed and prioritizes saying yes to projects over its employees’ wellbeing. My team was stressed and unhappy the whole time I worked there, with high turnover and multiple members crying on shift. 

Entry-level employees were regularly expected to work overtime to finish projects—often ones that they weren’t given enough lead time to properly plan for. Our team was consistently disrespected and even verbally abused by managers and collaborators on other teams. We were told we had to put up with it because such large contracts were on the line.

Working at CNUC has been a great experience for starting my career. Starting work as a forester during the pandemic was hard, but my team in Northern California was incredibly helpful with training and support. I came into the job barely knowing anything about arboriculture and utilities, but the extended training and education period were extremely helpful. This is the only job where I felt that I could reach out to upper management, and be heard and understood. The main pros: always outside, the ability to work on all sorts of projects, quick advancement. Cons: some landowners can be threatening, can be physically taxing, may be asked to switch projects without much training.

The contracts seem to change all the time and who you are working with/ under also changes frequently. Given the subjective nature of the job different people will give you very different feedback. It can be difficult to handle different people giving you conflicting feedback. The work trucks and tile outside are amazing. Depending who you’re working with the job can be real fun. It’s a very masculine dominated work environment. Not a great handle on covid safety but since most work is outdoors that wasn’t a huge problem. Some decent flexibility in when you work and how you do your work. 

The pay was incredibly low for the work you do and the ceiling was very low. The benefits were great. But I didn’t see much growth with the company possible and with the pay being so low and all the certifications/education that is encouraged for a dollar or 2 raise it was not worth staying for me. Did not appreciate the management. Left for an entry level job i concrete industry that pays $3 more right off the bat and I have no experience in concrete, had a lot of skill set in the forestry role but did not want to put in several years to be in the mid 20’s when I can get that entry level other places. 

As a current employee of CN Utility, I would recommend to anyone interested in working in the UVM field to apply for a position with this company. They are extremely safety oriented and the opportunity for internal advancement is very good (May require reloacation). The only downside to this job I would say is that you are working alone 95% of the time, which I thought would be great at first but I am realizing that day after day it is a little lonely at times.

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Forester 102 salaries reported	$26.41 per hour
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Archaeologist 44 salaries reported	$31.14 per hour
Contract manager 15 salaries reported	$42.00 per hour
Data specialist 6 salaries reported	$25.00 per hour

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