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group leader

team leader

hvac technician

senior hvac technician

Maclellan-Integrated-Services

Company sells you on 4 days on 3 days off only to tell you your 4 days on involves 12 to 14 hour days. 

During manufacturing shutdowns you work there more then 4 days a week which means your working for free. 

Communication is non existent between shifts and horrible between top level management and mid level management.

As a group leader, your the supervisor but if you make a decision or a call about something which a normal supervisor does, it will get you in trouble because you have to ask permission for everything. 

This company can be great, but the current on site higher management is taking this site in a direction that leads to disaster. 

The hardest part of being a group leader here is when you see great potential and have great ideas but the higher on site management will not let you execute those ideas for fear of outshining the higher management. 

Labor force is bottom of the barrel flow. Who wants to work for pennies on the dollar when the site your working at pays quarters on the dollar. 

Be mindful of the reviews, you think it's just bitter employees and people upset. If your brave enough or desperate enough to take the job you'll learn quickly group leaders don't get fired, they quit for bad treatment and a toxic work environment. 

I wouldn't even recommend this place to be a stepping stone site. 

Be mindful of your career and your experience. D

Very disappointed in what this company is becoming under new upper management. 
Once upon a time, being a manager for MacLellan was something to be proud of, but that time has come and gone. 
What used to be a family atmosphere has rapidly evolved into an environment filled with toxicity, dishonesty and division. 
MacLellan will sell you on the culture and their “Core DNA”, but behind the scenes and where it truly matters, their “Cultural DNA” is a distant afterthought. 
The leadership in this organization (Directors and above, with the exception of one) will praise employees to their face, then bash them to their colleagues behind their backs. 
From the top, the word “alignment” is used daily, yet alignment is a facade. The decisions MacLellan’s leaders make are not based on business needs or input from site leadership, but rather a way to impose power and control over others. 

The selling point to being a site manager used to be the ability to make decisions without fear of backlash. Managers used to know their leader’s had their back, but that time is sadly gone as well. 

I fear for what this company is becoming and the direction it’s new leadership is taking MacLellan. If you’re looking for an opportunity, trust me, look elsewhere. This ship is taking on water quickly, and the captain isn’t concerned with getting you on a lifeboat. 

Some days were much better than others, but overall the lack of communication and consistency were the largest problems.  Many times you would be told that you were working a mandatory 12hr day right as you were leaving for the day, or just walking in to start your shift.  As far as workplace culture, all I can really say is watch your back, as rumor and innuendo make the environment unnecessarily stressful where it does not need to be.  Tasks themselves are easy and really just takes some perseverance and attention to detail.  Everything was subject to change.  I would not advise this job unless you need something temporary or just getting back into the workforce.  Just be careful, I had to learn the hard way that many people there are not very trustworthy, and many were able to get away with things due to their relationship with management, such as not working at all or disappearing.  Couple that with a "bus-throwing" environment and unnecessary drama and it is easy to see why the overall reviews are such as they are.      

Zero training, everything I learned was self taught, if you ask how things work you're told you might not be qualified for the job.  They are quick to point out how replaceable you are.  Vacations can and will be cancelled last minute with no care if you already spent money thats non refundable (last minute can be within 30 minutes of it starting.)  Lack of team members means you will end up doing most of the work yourself.  Point out problems to management and get ignored.  Promotions based on who is the most incompetent, make more mistakes and the skies the limit for you.  Do well and they will pile more wirk on you to pick up the slack from the rest.  They will have yoi doing the work of people in higher positions while telling you you can't be successful at that position (meanwhile they hire new people into those positions and expect you to train them for the few weeks they are around before quitting.) They promise at least one weekend a month off, but that is only for certain people, I went almost 2 years without one.  

Much worse than I can put into words.  The rest of the company seems alright, but in Lafayette I would avoid at all cost.

Company when created was a great company to work for, after company went private the concern only seemed to be about the bottom line, no longer cared about employees.  Upper management very difficult to work with, would expect results with out explaining issues (had to be a mind reader), not willing to help find solutions.  HR director appears to only want to make it to retirement, he is not willing to take a stand or back up employees.  He is a fence straddler, doesn't want to make waves or upset upper management.  Expectations was to work 6-7 days a week, 10,12,14 hours a day, compensation was low for salaried work expectations.  No work/life balance.  Often received calls while on vacation.  Upper management often hires new management and then walks away with the expectation that new employee will know what to do, offers no support.  Upper management does the same with promotions or transfers.  New people are often unsuccessful and company then terminates.

Maclellan was one one the best companies i had ever worked for till about 4 months ago. They lost great management and replaced them with someone off the street that doesn’t know what they are doing. they hire team leads that “know” what they are doing when all they do is walk around on their phone all the time and get onto you because your not doing your job right when you have done the same thing every day you have worked for over 7 months. they think because they have worked like enough, they have the privilege to sit back and watch everyone else work. you ask them questions and they look at you like your dumb. they say they care about the people that work for them, and they don’t. they don’t care about anyone that comes in every & busts there butt to get their work done, all they care about are the ones that sit up in the office all day. they tell you that they take things very seriously but when it happens, and you tell them about it, nothing is done about it. over all, maclellan is one of the worst companies to work for!! 

What is the best part of working at the company?
There wasn’t it was unsafe lack of information and they just want people who they can use as scape goats when there so called training  back fires on them!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of leadership! The managers spend 90% of the day between the bathroom and the cafeteria and the team leaders don’t know there butts from there elbows! They just got the job because they were the only option at the time! I was there 6 months and seen at-least 10 people come and go it’s an absolute joke!!!

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Unfriendly unprofessional unorganized u pick!

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful no guidance u spend 8-12 hour shifts guessing because the People who have been there the longest don’t even know how to do the job lol!

A normal day at work is being busy without takeing a full break, I've learned all the positions my employer has to offer. Im a team leader, with great leadership skills.I am a fast learner , i over look 6 other employees work. which are custodial,lubrication and general maintenance, I have learned that with important responsibilitys. comes great honor when a job is done well and everyone goes home safe.The management where i am employed at is not the best. in other words, my boss does not practice what he preaches. My co-workers are not the best to work with. they lack ambition and the follow thru off most the jobs. The hardest part of my work is trying to get somebody to work a shift when there is a call-in.I like most about my job is how I was given the chance to excel and learn everything there is to know .

Ninety percent of the work is done when the plant is not producing which is weekends and holidays.  Must work every weekend and shut downs are a mandatory full week of working 12 plus hours a day.  Salary was low for the amount of hours I worked.  Seemed like a big disconnect between the corporate office and site locations.  Contract was underbid which fell on site management. All they care about is the bottom line and corporate will set you up for failure in doing so.  Site was understaffed, I was only GL on day shift most the time I was there.  Director of operations will MapQuest your mileage log.  Customer was difficult to work for at times.  Did learn a little about lean manufacturing through Toyota.  Was able to work on people managing skills, although I did feel like a baby sitter at times.  Co-workers were fun.  Benefits were really good when I worked there.

Days were stressful, Pentair workers would make our Janitorial job harder, leaving messes for us to clean, had more tasks added than we could handle could handle with a limited staff. High turnover of staff was of no help, allowing for little in the way of getting experienced staff.

Change in management several month's prior to my leaving was disagreeable and unwilling to let those working the floor handle things and was unwilling to work with the staff when they decided to change our way of doing things without going over it with us.

If we found tasks that needed doing, we were to find ways to do it safely, efficiently and always look for improvements in howto complete our tasks.

Hardest part of the job was handling the work load when someone was late or called off.

Best part of the job was getting along with the Pentair staff.

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