maintenance technician

control room operator

facilities manager

plant engineer

technician

EthosEnergy

Don't waste your time applying here unless you enjoy working in an understaffed and under paid environment with management that sees you only as a replaceable.
lots of overtime, one department works a 7on 7 off schedule but hours are structured to where you do not get a lot of over time per paycheck on a normal work schedule . management worked it to where you have a 36 and 48 split , work 84 hours starting on a Friday and the pay period ends on a Sunday. would make sense to start the work week on a Monday and pay the employees all the OT as an incentive.
Lots of great people here! but The culture here is bad and NOT at the fault of ETHOS or LS Power, it's the current management.
LS bought the facility a year ago and Ethos runs the plant and we are hoping they are starting to figure out why the turnover rate is so high.
we have been cut down to below the bare minimum on staff to run this plant. and when they do finally get around to Hiring new people, the lack of training is basically setting them up to fail. no supervisors in a position to help train and get people qualified due to being understaffed on purpose. . To be completely honest the employees were thinking new management would have been brought in after the transition, but that did not happen.
over the last several years there have been well over 75 employees come and go!!! and yet no one is asking why?
The expectations to advance are not the same for everyone. If you are in the friend circle you will be shuffled through the line of advancement over someone who has more experience or completed the required training and is more qualified to do the job. apply with caution. it is a beautiful plant with decent pay and great benefits. but quickly loses its luster when you are not getting the training promised and working a lot of hours.

a typical day at work
- Wake up, head downstairs to my office, log in, perform compliance work remotely (e.g., internal audits, procedure development, compliance guidance development, etc.)

what you believe you learned
- I've learned a ton about the inner workings of natural gas-fired power plants and some of the more detailed engineering-oriented NERC Standards (e.g., 693 Standards and some CIP)

management
- Management is largely hands-off, which is great.  I'm not a fan of micro-management AT ALL.  My supervisor gives me the latitude to do my job to the best of my ability, although I can't really say that he inspires me to do my best.  It's really my inner drive that makes me particularly effective in my role.

workplace culture
- Because I work remotely, there is very little interaction / engagement with my peers.  However, I have a great working relationship with the personnel at the power plants that I support.  There seems to be a mutual genuine high level of concern for fellow coworkers.

the hardest part of the job
- Working within operational constraints (e.g., trying to locate and organize evidence while operational events are occurring at power plants, thus making plant personnel availability very limited).

the most enjoyable part of the job
- Successful audits (i.e., audits with zero violations or areas of concern and with lots of positive observations).

The company is poorly run.  There is no transparency between management and everyone else.  It is a Joint Venture and in such bad shape the largest stakeholder is trying to get out but cannot find a buyer because no one wants a failing business.  The projects I saw were all in bad shape due to poor senior management.  The senior management harps on PMs to try and claw bad ever dollar possible however possible, then instantly caves when they need to be called in for backup.  Senior management requires weekly meetings that they either do not show up to or play on their phone when they do show up, then act surprised when a problem that has been reports for weeks gets worse.  It was extremely clear to everyone on the project teams that senior management did not understand the business.  On top of that, senior management was grossly lying to executive management about how bad the projects really were financially.  I saw "management" instead of "leadership" because leadership is nonexistent here.  Employee moral is lower here than any other place I have ever seen. It was so bad that I left before I even had another job lined up and so were other people. Honestly, I could continue and write a novel about how bad Ethos is.

I am sure HR will reply with their typical "sorry about your bad experience, please contact us so we can pretend to show others reading this that we care."  

Avoid at all costs!

Depends on your position, but I've been working 6-7 days a week, 10 hours minimum per day with no time off/holidays.  Again, depending on your position they either eliminated or greatly reduced bonus potential...generally the ones working the hardest got theirs eliminated entirely.  Said it was the results of a market study finding 20-25% were not the industry standard, when the competitor across town had a similar study done and reduced the bonuses to 22.5% (the median for this industry).  No opportunities for personal development, conferences, etc.  Ton of people with LOTS of experience then get siloed into one-task automatons.  Everybody on the corporate side is looking for an out.  Generally, impression is that the new management team believes we were all hatched as Ethos employees and have zero other baseline experiences and will just buy their fabricated talking points.  Zero support from the leadership team...fairly certain they would sacrifice any one of us if they felt it would serve them in some way.  

Most of the staff has skill set to excel in their careers, but mostly unmotivated to apply themselves accordingly.  Disciplining themselves to improvement is lacking and standards need to be policed more efficiently to raise expectations to meet the life goals of individuals.  Cross-training in different disciplines are minimal, but the offer for off-site schooling is funded by company benefits if applied for.  It's shift work and overtime for maintenance technicians could be more fairly compensated when required in a pinch .  Starting up and shutting down are up and down turns of the equipment and when changes can be observed as to the normal running of the plant.  Procedures of all activities are expected and documented for recording of the operations.  Safety is kept at a highest standard in the industry.

There’s a disconnect between those in the old Turbo-Care and Wood Group silos. Sales is disconnected from Engineering and visa-versa. HR isn’t for the workers, but rather responds to the whims of upper management. The upper management team is disassociated from the day-to-day issues that employees face. A legit Quality culture to totally missing from all operating groups. Plus, they continue to bleed experienced people on a consistent basis over the past 18 months. Innovation is stifled by a Group Think mentality that has infiltrated from the Old Turbo-Care culture.

Work life balance is poor as operations is shift work which is tough enough but worsened by poor scheduling by managers who don't care or understand shift-work work life balance.
Overtime isn't paid for training when you come in off of your regular days.
compensation is the lowest in the industry in our work area.
Medical has been getting worse and costs are directed at the employee reducing total pay package.
401k match is decent, at about industry average.
Job security is unstable due to instability of managers and varying  execution of discipline policies.
HR is incompetent and routinely doesn't answer questions with other than we will get back to you.

Management is horrible and backed up by corporate despite the inconsistencies, hypocrisies and flat out lies told by management. The turnover rate for employees at this company is unheard of in the industry and corporate doesn't question why or look into problems caused by poor management. If you are desperate for a job or inexperienced and looking to break into the industry this is a good place to start but DO NOT SETTLE! Granted there are a few good managers out there but the worst of them casts a huge shadow over the company with a corporate structure to back them up. Any employees who report to HR for questions or concerns about anything at all (including benefits, paperwork, training, etc) are not likely to get any response and if they do it is not in a timely manner. The business ethics are a joke.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Good experience with metals used in the aerospace industry

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Tough work (takes time to get used to)

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
My welder co workers were unpleasant but did help when I needed help.  Manager only really cared about the work and not so much about the employees.  Not to mention the pay was not worth it considering how difficult the jobs were.  Ultimately this place is not worth it in my opinion

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Very much isolated.  The work its self wasn’t bad, it was busy work and good experience.  Welder coworkers were not the nicest and it created an unenjoyable workspace

The work, in and of itself, is quite satisfying. However, incompetent and inexperienced managers continue to get in the way of progress, communication, career advancement, and the quality of the work. 
Internal promotions are rarely posted. Friends of those in power receive newly created jobs, or promotions. Newly appointed middle management doesn’t seem to ask for, nor listen to, recommendations from senior staff, so we continue to make the same mistakes and lose efficiency. Decisions are based on feelings, not data. 
Overall, there is a disappointing lack of leadership and clear direction. There is no single mission statement around which to rally.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
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