construction manager

civil engineer

senior project manager

engineering intern

structural engineer

KCI Technologies

I worked out of the office in Sandy, UT. The PM for that office is the most selfish, uncaring, unempathetic, disrespectful, manipulative person I have ever worked for. She constantly belittles you and makes you feel as if you are doing things incorrectly in the hopes to get more out of you, she is in no way shape or form accommodating to your personal life, everything that happens in your life is an inconvenience to her and she is sure to let you know that. She will refuse to let you take days off to due to it being a conflict of work and immediately after goes on month vacations, She will constantly try to get you to do more work that is above your pay grade but, refuses to promote and pay you for the job you are already doing. if she has an issue with something you are doing she will wait till there is no one around, corner you into having a discussion and then belittle and insult you then turn the entire thing around on you if you say anything to anyone or get upset by it. the office is always understaffed due to the work environment and if you are one of the unfortunate people that stick around you are constantly expected to pick up the slack for 3-4 people. I would highly suggest you seek employment elsewhere

I don't normally leave reviews for things like this I'm just hoping to save someone else the misfortune of wasting years of time for a company that does not want you to succeed.

Project manager position was responsible for marketing, engineering design, engineering supervision, quality control, managing deliverables to multitudes of clients on multitudes of projects with almost no control of work load, and pursuing/collecting past-due invoices from delinquent clients. Company expects the PM to do all the work in keeping client happy, while pursuing more work at a break-neck pace, managing team of engineers that sometimes were green (too green) making the job of PM almost impossible to perform to meet KCI's expected profits. Everything the PM does is measured via performance metrics. The PM lives and dies by these metrics. As an MEP PM, the projects were typically very small in fee (low margin) compared to KCI standard projects from other civil/infrastructure offices (civil projects). Imagine a goal of $1 million per year with project fees averaging $2,500 to $5,000 each. That's a lot of projects to turn over in one year to reach $1 million. That's a lot of proposals coming from one PM. Simply put, that was a lot of work for one PM at KCI, per KCI's expectations.

Was promised a full-time position with advancement to management after 3 months of work evaluation. I ended up working 2 years with a title of temp employee.
I found that I was training the lower-level management how to use the system because of my extensive experience with their new client. I was paid per job, but then was given multiple administrative type tasks that I wasn't allowed to charge for. I was also nominated to work weekends while in meetings without asking me first. Every day the emails to complete admin tasks compiled even more to where I was having to answer close to 50 emails a day and small admin tasks(unpaid) while trying to keep up with my (paid) work. The job turned into an "Everybody's an expert, yet no one has ever used the system" type of situation. My week went from 40 hours to 70+ hour weeks just to keep up with all the personal preference updates and changes to every task and job -- yet I was paid for less than 30 of those hours. I was told that all updates and changes were "included" with the original paid job and was no longer allowed to charge for additions long after the job was fully completed. 

I've had a great experience working at KCI. The people here are fantastic, and the projects are both challenging and rewarding. The company's entrepreneurial spirit really stands out, making it an exciting place to be. The ESOP (employee stock program) is a great benefit that sets KCI apart from most other companies. Career progression is strongly supported, with plenty of training opportunities available, and there's a genuine emphasis on community involvement. KCI offers competitive salaries and benefits, and while every workplace has its moments, KCI is a solid company where employee interests are a priority, thanks to its employee-owned structure.  I have been happy working here.

I was an "AutoCAD" designer, even though they never actually had me working on AutoCAD specifically. My rating would’ve been higher if it weren’t for one infuriating incident. I submitted my two-week notice after landing my dream job as an Automation Engineer—something I don’t normally bother with, but I actually liked it here. You’d think a decent company would respect that, right? Wrong. Instead, they kicked me out the same day I gave notice, because I wanted to be kind and give them a heads-up. Their reason? "Since you're in training, we don’t have to honor the two weeks." What a pathetic joke. They claimed to "appreciate" the notice, but this just proves why companies like this don’t deserve the courtesy of a heads-up anymore. Bridges on my end were broken.

If I didn’t speak up for myself I would of been left in the dust.  I was injured on the job due to my negligence and was put in the office.  I was eager to learn about office work but was not given any information on how to work in the office, or what that work required.  As soon as I was finished with workers compensation I was terminated during Christmas break and required to work Christmas before being let go. If it weren’t for me approaching the project manger and asking about my job security I wouldn’t of known to start looking for another job.  I wouldn’t refer anyone to work for this company.  My coworkers were not easy to work with nor were the project managers and office crew.  I asked for help on learning material and was never given anything to study to help improve my situation.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Professional and safe environment to work in. No toxic workplace behavior tolerated. Good colleagues to work with. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Constantly looking for new clients

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
We work from our cubes. A good friendly work culture. Hard work rewarded

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I work 9-5, I typically have breaks and lunch at my desk. However, I do make sure to take a walk at lunch time. Work varies between writing proposals, field inspections, data analysis and writing reports.

My my typical work day is coming in logging into my system, then pulling up all my apps that I need for the day, opening up my database to see what work I have to work on throughout the day. And waiting on calls to come in if there's any to come in at the early hours of the morning. Monitoring my time frame for my breaks 
meaning lunch and proceeding throughout the day for the rest of the work. Being ready to take on a dollar so I'll go and calls.

I've worked here for a few years and its very good for training out in the field because there is no inhouse or paid training. If so, I guess I wasn't fortunate enough to be selected. They will stick you at a techs position but have you doing forman work without the title nor compensation.  Management sucks. Bad communication and if there is a problem to be addressed, don't take it to HR. You may as well deal with it yourself because they are all buddy buddy.

Pleasant work environment, with reasonable travel requirements.  There is ample opportunity to succeed.  

It's a good place to work, as long as you don't work in the Technology Group.  There are a couple of guys running that group who are inept, and will throw you under the buss to cover up that fact.  Plus, there's evidence that they may have racist tendencies.  If you're a technology professional, & you take career development seriously, you'd do well to avoid the KCI Technology Group.

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