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First of all, LH's corporate office is not a bad place to work if you don't mind being micro-managed by people who often times don't really know what your job is. The upper management seems stuck in the 1970's as far as their attitudes go.I found this quite frustrating in the nearly 5 years I worked there.

The company expects you to be physically in the office at your desk working, even if you have a laptop and the work you do could be done from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. You might as well not have a personal life as leaving early to take your kids to school or sporting activities are frowned upon. They also watch you like a hawk to make sure you come in on time and leave on time.

Millennials are frustrated quickly here as they can't move up the ladder as quickly as at other places. People in senior leadership positions typically have been with the company or in the industry for decades and moved up slowly through the ranks. New ideas and methods are quickly challenged or dismissed.

White males are quietly given preferential treatment over minorities and females. I've seen highly talented and productive minority and or female managers and executives fired for trying to make progressive moves toward racial equality and professional competency-driven goals and methods, rocking the "good-old boy" way of doing things. 

I learned a lot from OJT and finding the training resources I needed on my own as there was no formal development plan in place. In fact, the LMS has recently been geared toward developing the leadership positions and not for the support folks. Their training programs seem to be marching backward.

The hardest part of the job was working directly under a director who knew nothing about my job nor what it was about after our training manager was let go. It was frustrating at best as I had very little to do other than updating records and "keeping the lights on".

The most enjoyable part of my job was learning new systems and methods and challenging myself daily. I also enjoyed travelling from time to time across North America for different projects.

I write this as a former employee who left due to family reasons, not because I was unhappy at Heidelberg Materials.  The company offered me great support as a manager.  My supervisor was available and really worked with me on issues of safety, production, hiring, and long range planning for the operation.  We  struggled to attract new talent to the facility, partly due to the current labor market and that the facility was nearing the end of its life.  This made for really long hours for the staff that was onsite.

The facility has a long history of a challenging relationship with the local community and local regulators.  This made it really frustrating at times and it felt like simple operational tasks were overly difficult to accomplish due to the crazy level of scrutiny for everything that goes on at the site.  

Overall, it was a good place to work and the parent company really does support the operation and the staff.  The facility is in a transition phase from an operating cement plant/kiln/mine to a reclamation project.

No advancement, apply for a job to move up. I’m qualified for the position I’d applied for. They hire from the outside. Company skipped over two others in the same position as I am. For family and friends. 


They let certain workers come in late, call off, and give attitude. Certain people can sleep, watch YouTube videos on their cellphones and get overtime when it’s getting cut for others. They can be disrespectful to other employees and the equipment they use. The company wants us to use this speak up system. It doesn’t work , just like the email we got about the company cares about us and wants us to advance in the company. 
We don’t even get thanks or good job when jobs are completed. Instead we get lectured about how the company is losing money, the plants, and trucks and equipment needs to be fixed. They won’t spend money to fix anything or buy supplies. But the managers  sponsored a golf outing at a major event. 
Certain cliques get away with not doing their jobs. While they harass the ones who actually do their jobs. Keep adding more work to the ones doing their jobs, to cover for the lazy ones. 
This is a good job and great coworkers. Just missed managed. Too worried about bonuses and moving up. While skipping and ignoring the ones who’s actually doing the work. 

Just excuses. 

I liked how everyone in the office seems nice. In other words, nobody is looking for drama. There are moments of stress, but that's expected in any kind of company. The members of management are kind, but the downsides of the company is that there doesn't seem to be too much growth. I know a temporary employee in my department who has no idea whether they will keep him or not after he's finished the work he's there to do. I, too, don't know if I will be offered a full-time position after my internship because there are no open positions in our department. Also, upward growth is difficult because none of the upper-leveled management seems to want to leave their own positions. Everyone is basically just stuck being whatever position they are unless they add/create new positions. The benefits are not as good as they could be - there should be more vacation time available for employees. A really nice thing is that they have business casual dress throughout the week, and then jeans on Fridays. Overall, the company is a great company to work for...if you can get a full-time position.

I've been here a little over 2 years. It is primarily a good job. The manager of the drivers is a good guy and does what is in his power to keep you happy. The job is usually easy. The pay is an hourly rate and you can expect to get 55-65 hours per week. Pretty good insurance and a company matched 401k.  Safety and load bonuses are an added benefit. Most of the trucks are pretty new manual transmission 10 speed Kenworths. If youre a new guy, you may start off in an older truck until you can show that you will take care of it by not driving it hard, having accidents, doing your pre and post trips, and keeping it clean. The only real downside is the inward facing cameras and the slipseating but if you just do your job and follow the policies its really not a big deal. Overall its hard to be negative about the job. No job is perfect and different people have different priorities in regards to what is important as far as the details and benefits of a job. 

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What is the best part of working at the company?
The compensation was good while I serve the purpose; but in honesty, they do pay above market.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
This is a cut-throat company. I don't believe I have worked in a more vicious environment. The stress was always there. Especially from seeing how there was no consequences to people's acts.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic. Vicious. People get away with things, and play out the politics and good people get tanked because they do not serve one person's interest. There is no people services culture. It is a 100% cut throat.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Full of meetings. Never have enough time to do the work; having to do it after hours. Full of alignments to align on the alignment for the one meeting. In my case it was always trying to get other to finish their committments.

Management is horrible, unless you are constantly in their office brown nosing and/or buying them stuff. You can be the best, BUT never get a promotion. Your compensation for doing a good job is to get more work! Once you bring issues to your superiors or even HR they start looking for reasons to get rid of you. Sadly this department has had such a high turn over rate (30+ temps in a matter of months) all because the 2 trainers dont like you. They will make up stuff and even with no proof get rid of you. Issues taken to HR in regards to racist comments and the one male trainer being condescending to women, will get you fired. No work life balance either, working MANDATORY 58 hrs a week in a horrible environment will wear you down physically and mentally......AND dont think about taking a break, because that is frowned upon, but smoking 10 times a day is OK. Sadly, not the company I started with a few years back......

What is the best part of working at the company?
Maybe it was all the hours they make you work or being treated like a peace of garbage. Being screamed at all the time was fun to or all the work I did that wasn’t in my job description. But I think the best thing was being accused of making threats about my boss by the person that took over my job without any proof just from what they said. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Working for a company that wants you to put them before your family.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They give unrealistic time frames to get things done even if you do get things done when they want them you are still yelled at because it wasn’t done the way they wanted it done.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
It was really good until the new purchasing manager took over and then it was very stressful. Constantly being told that I wasn’t worthy of being in charge.

Lehigh Hanson Cement has acquired Essroc Cement a couple years ago; the new management at Nazareth plant has been "cleaning house" (getting rid of the "Essroc team") ever since. One by one, mostly everyone who has been a good and loyal Essroc employee has been let go or forced to quit.
Current Management (who lacks understanding of American culture) is probably feeling insecure unless surrounded by a bunch of YES men. 
Loyal, hardworking and capable people have been and are being let go or "set to fail" (work overload, stress, provoked, etc.). The truth is never welcomed and people who dare telling the truth are, sooner or later, "disappearing". Experience is being lost, people's morale is low and the trust in the current company is close to none. 
It is SAD and DISHEARTENING to see what has been going on the last few years!
Do NOT recommend to take a job with this company!

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