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At Hunt Electric, you must run over 12-20 projects at once ($40M+), estimate new work, estimate change orders, design projects, engineer projects, provide business development and submit submittals, closeouts, RFIs, etc. Although I asked for help many times, I never received any support. Usually, I was so overloaded that I would need to work through the night and sleep at my desk, which unfortunately is all too common at Hunt Electric.  Senior management never trained employees or cared about their personal growth.  During most days, you can expect senior management to be consumed in secret meetings and provide little to no help. I never received a bonus during my tenure at Hunt Electric. Because Hunt Electric has no estimating department, I was required to estimate projects and attend estimating meetings while managing my projects.  Like all the project managers before me, I resigned from my position as Senior Project Manager.   

Pros: Before resigning, I enjoyed working with most coworkers.

Cons: No estimating department, low pay, illiterate & inept management, no bonuses, car allowance is 1/3 the national average, senior management verbal assaults underlings, senior management consistently makes inappropriate and vulgar comments, zero training,  they employ family members and friends instead of qualified staff, you are expected to do 3 or more jobs for one low salary, the estimating software is never updated, no company processes or procedures, etc.

My experience at Hunt Electric was unfortunately very negative. From the beginning, there was no real training or guidance on how to perform the job. New employees were expected to figure things out on their own, which led to confusion, mistakes, and frustration. When I reached out for help or clarification, management was either unavailable or dismissive.

Favoritism was a major issue. Certain employees were given preferential treatment, better schedules, and more opportunities regardless of performance. Those who spoke up about unfair treatment or asked questions were often singled out or retaliated against, creating a culture of fear and mistrust.

The overall environment was unprofessional and stressful, with very little communication or transparency from leadership. Constructive feedback was not encouraged, and it often felt like management cared more about appearances than actually supporting their team.

I hope that Hunt Electric takes the time to evaluate their management practices and invest in proper training, fair treatment, and a healthier work culture. There’s potential here, but it will require serious changes in leadership and accountability.

Growth, opportunity, and something different to challenge me each day. Some companies state "growth from within" and don't live up to it, Hunt is different, they want you to succeed and provide opportunities to help you be successful. In any business, it is timing. I know there is not an abundance of opportunities sitting and waiting for every person in the company, but with the growth of the company, there are lots of opportunities. (if you are ready) Preparing for them consistently is the key to being ready when those opportunities arise. Like in any position, communication with your supervisor and management team is critical. Sharing and documenting your goals and working with the team to achieve them is critical to capturing opportunities. Service is constantly growing and has a great team with a ton of talented individuals. Service can at times be a whirlwind with different types of work, tough environments that can be at times challenging and frustrating, but provide a sense of pride when you complete them and can be the "Hero" for the facility.  

The company has its perks, such as job security being one of the largest electrical contractors in Utah. Upper management seems to express their care for employees, but it doesn’t show through project managers and middle management.

Wage structures will change and they will give raises to some but short their loyal and hardworking employees. Company uses a safe harbor 401k plan to pad higher level management, and they offer private company shares, but only to those who are in the social club, not offered by merit. Project managers will overbid on customers and still tell the field guys to install cheap low quality parts.

Corners are cut everywhere they can be to save money. When you are supposed to be paid per diems, overnight pay variances, or travel pay, they will not pay it unless you ask multiple times; even then often times they will tell you they have forgotten. Unfortunately the company doesn’t realize that peoples livelihoods are at the merci of their mistakes, and they don’t care.

I liked working for Hunt mostly. That was because of the people I worked with. So culture was a big plus.  Not being stuck with one crew was great most of the time also. 

One of the big problems was the foreman. The foreman would throw you under the bus a lot. Multiple times my crew would be assigned to do a task. We would set up for said task, then  we would say we don't have the parts to do the assigned task. So the foreman would complain at us for not having the parts. Not sure how I was supposed to order parts for this specific task 10 minutes ago. 

But that was a common occurrence on most jobs.

Or we have to finish this job in two months. Working 6 days a week. All while the foreman repeatedly tells you we don't have man hours for this. I'm not sure how they made money but apparently they do. Then we finish and go to the next job and it's the same thing. Instead of fixing the problem with the project managers the lower level guys just are expected to work their life away.

No accountability on the higher up's.

I have been with Hunt Electric for about 6 months now as an office employee and it truly has been amazing experience so far. It's been awesome to work for a company and individuals who truly care about your well-being and want you to be successful and happy. What I admire most is what they give back to the company, they are constantly always thinking of ways to better the way we run our processes in the office, always looking out for the guys in the field making sure they are taken care of, for example hotel/Pro-Diem/pay, and just making sure it's an overall good work environment. I also admire how hard each department works and how we all will go the extra mile to take care of our clients, the amount of respect the upper management expresses to us us daily, and how they take care of their employees by making sure we are all safe and protected. 

I definitely recommend working for this company. :)

Never a typical day at work. Every project has a different schedule and location, some sites were very relaxed and others were very stressful. I learned a lot of new techniques for field work and management skills. We had regular trainings on a variety of topics and lots of continuing education opportunities. Upper management was great! I usually ended up working with really good project managers on good projects, but sometimes had to help with very stressful projects at crunch-time phase. Some sites were very remote or with long commutes or really close with short commutes. Personally, I preferred the interesting sites even though they usually had harder commutes. Most of my coworkers were great, but we did have a lot of turnover and temporary help. Hunt Electric treated me good and I enjoyed working with for them at a wide variety of sites.

It’s all about who you know at Hunt, Nepotism is a huge problem here and it doesn’t matter how hard of a worker you are unless it’s overtime and you volunteer on your days off. They tear down honest hard working people. This company is more of a “live to work rather than a work to live type of place”. Their paid time off (PTO) benefits are poor. The Foreman almost never make an appearance outside their trailer on a job site. The leads are often uneducated or unwilling/ too busy to take the time to teach newer apprentices. Even though there are rules about how many journeyman there are to apprentices there seems to be a serious lack of them. They preach about being one of the leading companies in safety, but when approached about situations seem to turn a blind eye.

Hunt has a great culture of caring about there employees when it comes to there safety, personal growth, career path and work / home balance. Hunt invests in there employees in many ways but one I appreciate is the leadership training this helps the company to have constant leadership throughout living the Hunt culture. Safety is the number one goal for Hunt they do everything in there power to make sure every employee goes home safe to there family at the end of every day. They do this by having a full time safety team, a weekly safety call for the leadership to share with there teams and also provide paid safety and equipment training.

The management in this company is completely broken - there is no sense of communication or training when hiring new employees. It's a sink or swim environment here. On top of that, there is rampant racism, transphobia, homophobia - you know - the whole 9 yards. I was verbally abused because of my mental disability here to the point where I had no choice but to walk off the job. HR also failed to act on this harassment. If you're looking to start your career as an electrician - join a union. Stay FAR away from this place.

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