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A typical day at work is not typical at all. In the field, the schedule changes daily, if not hourly. It keeps you on your toes and everyone has to be ready to change gears at a moments notice. The work we do on and around buried pipelines is serious. Asset integrity and public safety is at the top of everyone's daily goals.

I learned what it really meant to be part of a team. Not like a McDonald's kind of team where you work together for a shift and that's it, but like a team where you all live on the road weeks if not months at a time, in hotels, share rooms, share meals, share adventures, share headaches and heartbreaks both on the job and on personal time.

Management personnel place safety before profit everyday. They are there to provide support, listen to any issues, answer any questions, and be firm to achieve project goals.

The co-workers are what you expect. Hard working Americans trying to provide for their family and produce the best work they can for their company ensuring continuing work. Nothing short of the best quality individuals.

The hardest part of the job is time away from home, friends, and family.

The most enjoyable part of the job is being able to travel and visit new places which I would've otherwise never visited. To get the chance to see how other Americans live life from the deserts in California to the mountains of West Virginia, the marshes of Louisiana to the big cities of New England.

If you want to feel undervalued and love to be lied to then this is the perfect place. A place where your promised a raise for months and when its time to caugh up the money...nothing, not a single word but gave raises to upper management and even gift cards while not even receiving a thank you for being part of the same exact team. If you like being harrassed by hypocritical management and southwest gas inspectors then again welcome to mears. A place where they will punish you by messing with your hours and money before even giving you a heads up about the why and even will give you the run around till they feel like they can spare a moment of thier time while drastically messing with their employees livelihood. If you want to work for a company that will not pay out on pto but hand you a 1 day check as your last check with $3.00 printed on it then welcome to the fabulous mears. Honestly between picking mears pipeline and picking up animal feces on a farm in the hot summer i would rather pick up cow pies than work for this foul company ever again.

Cohesion issue between departments and groups. Lack of real "leadership" throughout the company. Plenty of managers that get shuffled around that think they already know all of the answers even though you've been in the project the entire time. Listening issue with project level management. Definitely a boys club so prepare to work twice as hard as a female and be questioned every step of the way. You'll have to prove that you know anything while watching a relative of someone in the company waltz in and be taken seriously from Day One. 
It's also possible you get stock issued to you, but they'll probably let you go before it matures, which means you lose it, so I wouldn't put any weight on that "benefit" when/if you apply. 
Summary: A lot of retirement age individuals in upper levels that are just trying to make it to that point and once they get what they need from you, they'll let you go to make sure the books look good so they can get their fat bonus.

The company of mears has a great safety plan. The problem are people on there phones with the management team that are family slandering people that work hard. You have people that are way to your in a position they can’t handle. There doing ok. Was laid off and was told three weeks I would get a call. Kept saying two more weeks. On 6/19 I get a text not a call saying “blank we won’t be looking to bring you back at this stage. I apologize for the delays in getting back to you.” On 6/24 indeed  appeared to be hiring and never a phone call. During a time of a pandemic they are using it to hire lower paid people. If they would have came out and said I made to much could we work out a deal. Nothing. I never wait for a company to call this was my first and last time. Beware this company in phx leads you on bids and fails at contracts cause of the people in charge. Good luck to the new hires. There are a lot of snakes in office

I was with this company for 5 years. They do not care about you. You are a number to them. There’s this “Michigan inner circle” within the company. They favorite their Michigan boys that they all grew up together and have BBQs with, regardless if they’re a scumbag. You can be a hard working employee with integrity, and if that “Michigan Inner circle” doesn’t like you, you’re going to be witch hunted for a firing. Being away from home year round and dealing with brutal pipeline hikes is not worth the 45-50K you might make that year. Also they’ll tell you at first that you can go home on break after 4-5 weeks and then lie and keep you out for 2-4 months.  No I wasn’t fired and I’m not being petty. I put my two weeks in and went back out the right way. Just giving some real insight before you proceed with this company.

If your young and have no life this job is perfect for you and if your buddies with the people in the office than you have a good chance of moving up in the company. If you mess up in the field you also have a better chance of moving up. There is poor communication through out the company and it turns into the blaming game. If your just a labor the job is great. but if you a foremen be prepared to do your job and everyone's from the field to the office just to make their job easier. Very stressful and not worth the money they pay which isn't enough. Years ago this company really cared about the field people and took care of them, now they thick you should never come home for a break or have a life outside of work.

Nepotism runs rampant. The upper management does not care about their employees because in the Rosebush area the labor pool is large and they know they will get another guy for cheap. 

Absolutely no work life balance. I would work 14 weeks out of state working 6 or 7 days a week and when it was time to come home you’d get 8 days off but they count two of those days as travel days. 

No Forman oversite in the field. You might have a different Forman for each job you work. The pay isn’t great. Don’t quite a job for this place. I worked there for three years and wouldn’t do it again. 

Keep in mind i wasn’t fired, I left as soon as I could find something else in my pay range.

This is that company you work at if you want to be worked like a dog, not get anywhere in life, and not get paid well for it! You will never know where you’re supposed to go until the last minute, and then that will change at the 11th hour. Management does NOT communicate at all, don’t plan on advancement unless you’re one of the “click”

Great place to learn about the industry and take in information. Company upper management is horrible and doesn't care about workplace culture or employees. Very high turnover rate in tech and engineering. Will be in the field for weeks and up to months at time as an engineer, with no extra compensation or acknowledgement from management. Company lacks greatly in holidays and PTO (2 weeks for first 3 years). Coworkers and supervisors have tons of experience and are very willing to teach you. Decent place to start and move on to a better company with more benefits.  

Bad place if you want to go anywhere or get paid for jobs/positions you do. Expect everything for nothing. Will lie to your face. Will hold back information. Its one of those simple get it done with half broke stuff or not having it but get it done faster than you did when it was running better. Unrealistic and if told any problem with safety you are removed from position. Drive expired dot vehicles or lose your job. Continuous move up of unexperienced that have no clue how the equipment even runs let alone the capabilities of it because they were groomed and sucked up enough to people.

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