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Terrible management, high turnover rate, and deplorable work life balance.

The interview is the only time a hiring manager will respect anything you have to say. 

After your 1 week crash course they call a training seminar, you are thrown to the sharks and left to fully furnish your company vehicle with everything you could ever need while in the field. This is costly and Its expected that you pay for everything: tools, tolls, gas, etc. 

While I was hired to work out of the office in western PA, my PM was in Philly and was impossible to communicate my needs to. Again, while I was hired to work out of western PA, an overwhelming majority my time was spent driving to central and eastern PA to work. This required weekly hotel stays and a depressing work life balance. 

Do not work here. Do not accept contract work with promises of a full time position. You deserve better.

This is a place for temporary job, not a place to stay or grow. If you are a perfectionist or organized this is not your place.  You will find this company doing stuff in the most messy and 
rudimental way posible.

You will find PMs with no leadership skills and horrible attitude just because upper management its also horrible to them. Expect mid management to blame everything entry to mid level staff.

Pros: Good coworkers. Good hybrid work policy. HSSE and HR departments actually work. Good place to just do your minimum (no one cares if you do a great job, just do it). 

Cons: Bad workplace culture. Highly disorganized. Need modernizing. Not much training. Salary could be better. Sometimes it can be poor work-life balance.

Summary: if you get this job, train here for 1-2 years then leave. Good luck! 

Decent place to work and gain knowledge of the environmental field. If you’re coming in as entry level you’ll be doing sampling a lot as opposed to O&M on remediation systems. From entry level, the room to advance and get promoted is pretty well if you display trust and hard-work. If you’re coming in with experience, the room to advance is a little more difficult due to their billing rate. Of course, this is only true in some offices. Southeastern PA office is run militant. 

For an environmental company the job safety is robust and mostly sincere.  Good people to work with, but as with any company communication with satellite offices is typically attempted with email, which doesn't always work.  Upper management is kind and willing to listen.  Pay is good, but the individual project manager running your project may or may not give up hours and tasks for advancement.  Proposal generation system is difficult to learn, chaotic borders on archaic.  Project management is very cumbersome for no reason.       

My first day at work I was told GES was a great place to start, which it is...but it's not a great place to work. The vast majority of clients are gas stations, so be prepared to work near the homeless and talk to store managers who want nothing to do with you.  Outside of that it's not terrible, you get your weekends off and the work is not difficult. Some managers are really nice while others will work you into unpaid overtime.  Health and safety culture is ridiculous though at least one hour of your day involves lecturing subcontractors about the importance of gloves and ergonomics.

The work load is about right for the most part.  Managers are very responsive and help develop and mentor employees to succeed and get promoted to the next level in their careers.  Lots of long term staff who know their stuff

In the four months that I've worked with GES I've been on three different projects. While I appreciate the varied work experience, It felt like I barely had time to learn what I was supposed to do before I was on a new project. The training is disorganized and can be difficult to get in touch with the people who will help with a question. However, everyone in the office is friendly and every project manager was eager to help with any question once you got in touch with them.

I worked at GES for 13 years from 2006 to 2019. Only left to move to Florida and a transfer was not available at the time. I experienced a full growth of my career from a junior geo to a Senior PM with program-level responsibilities and a office full of strong direct report staff. 
Company has been improving greatly over the past few years on unifying and streamlining their operations processes, with positive results.

Company provided low cost services and delivered low quality products due to non-standard management practices like package pricing. Work culture is poor. Management was only concerned with client satisfaction and did not seem to care if employees were happy. The company was very unstable leading to multiple rounds of layoffs.  Offices are encouraged to complete with each other for work instead of working as a team. Salaries were below average.

A typical day at work was organized, enjoyable and productive.  I had a good mentor. This is where I learned the most about network and system administration, security, high-availability, data center maintenance, vendor relation, etc...
The workplace culture is professional and nontoxic. The hardest part of the job was technologically supporting the remote office infrastructure. But it wasn't very difficult. The most enjoyable part of the job was that it was consistent and you knew what to expect from day to day.


Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Environmental scientist 11 salaries reported	$70,318 per year
Water treatment specialist 7 salaries reported	$36.07 per hour
Environmental engineer 7 salaries reported	$78,143 per year
Field technician 1 salary reported	$23.00 per hour
Environmental consultant 3 salaries reported	$233,333 per year

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