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Pantex Plant

A typical day at work consists of running work orders, checking with customers to make sure all systems are operational, and working 2-3 service center shifts throughout the week to provide customer service to our employees.

I have obtained various customer service skills while employed at Pantex. This is key in order to gain the customers confidence and trust in my work. I am able to listen and communicate effectively in order to execute the customer’s needs.

I work for a great manager who allows me to earn my respect within my department and my customers by not micromanaging my work. He allows me to take on responsibility and set my work for the day. My manager has trust in me to follow through and do my job to the best of my ability.

My co-workers are great to work with. We work very well together as a team to support our customers. I consider most of my co-workers good team-members as we rely on each other for help to be successful in supporting our plant.

The hardest part of the job is the uncertainty of what the next few months hold for me. I work as a sub-contractor to Pantex with GenQuest Inc. and we are only limited to work for 2 years at a time set by DOE and the Pantex legal department. I love where I work, but I am looking for a full time job that does not end after a period of time. This will allow me to begin planning for my future and obtain job security.

The most enjoyable part of my job is the work environment and being able to utilize my skills. I enjoy working for the CIO department and being able to interact with all of my customers and co-workers. I receive positive feedback from my customers and management which motivates me to thrive and better serve them.

Lead Electrical field engineer. I performed oversight of electrical construction and was the engineering liaison for subcontractors and prime contractor on system design for major modification for the Pantex facility. Interprets design drawings and specifications for constructability after sub-contractors submittal. Perform field verification of materials, equipment installation, and workmanship. Ensures results meet design requirements. Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Problem resolution and inspection of field installations. Tracking and reporting installations. Interact with subcontractors to ensure compliance with project drawings and specifications. Review of subcontractor submittals, Verifying, conducting and/or witnessing acceptance tests. Providing on-going constructability input to the design group. Provide design/technical interpretation/clarification. Perform quality control inspections.

Everyone has something to complain about at every Job. I try not to be that guy. Since the merger of Pantex and Y12 located in Oak ridge, TN, the senior leadership culture has changed rather dramatically. More about saving a dollar here or there and less about retaining quality people. 

Pantex is the only place I've worked in my professional career and I'll say I honestly don't know if you could work with a better group of competent and friendly co-workers. The people is what generally keeps professionals working at Pantex. The culture among the small worker groups is fantastic. The pay is also good, however, with recent slashes to benefits and employers in town or remote based work paying very close to what Pantex does, it isn't as beneficial to work for Pantex as much as it was when I first started. Now you can cut your commute down significantly and have similar benefits and pay.

Guidance and direction changes as often as the weather in the Texas Panhandle and it takes so long for support groups like HR to make decisions, that it is tough to know if you are in the right or wrong. If you want to be challenged by trying to navigate through endless red tape and reactionary decisions that are all but thoroughly evaluated, then this is the place for you. Pantex used to be a place where the people came first and support to properly set them and the company up for success. Obviously, based on their track record over the past few years, this simply is not the case any more. Maybe the new contractor will consider "truthfully" implementing a people-first business model and watch the people flourish, culture turn a 180, and watch it pay dividends.

The compensation and benefits are excellent. The typical day at work consisted of sitting in a cubicle for 8 hours a day while waiting for a security clearance. Occasionally there was work to be done, but not very often. This place is extremely political, and covered in red tape, on top of red tape, on top of more red tape. Some, not all, coworkers will use any information they can to make others look bad while making themselves look good. Participating in training, usually off-site, was definitely the best part of the job. Being stuck in a cubicle for 8 hours a day with nothing to do, while waiting 12-24 months for a clearance, was the worst part of the job.

Sit at my computer and do purchase orders.  Each desk had a different job, and I could do all the jobs in the office. When the orders came in, I had to check to see if what I ordered, was received.  If any piece of equipment was broke, I ordered a new one and shipped the disabled back to where it belonged. I also did filing.  Management was good as long as you got your work done.  The hardest part was learning every job in the office, but it was enjoyable because there was no job that management could not ask of you. There is an enjoyment to know that you can do any job within the office

Not a bad place to work if you don't mind a ton of red tape and politics for every single thing that has to be done. Understandably, I see the need for all the security and red tape, for the most part. But some of it makes absolutely no sense at all. The pay is excellent and the benefits are very good. However, until the clearance process is completed, most of your time is spend either sitting around in a cubicle staring at 4 walls, or following someone around doing senseless odd jobs. Occasionally, there are things to do that don't require a babysitter.

If you don't want to be in a "click" , if you want to spend your time with your family' swipe left. They will lie and cheat to protect their relatives. If you are not related and want to keep to yourself, the security force is not for you. It was not the job' but the other employees that will be the problem.  they trap you with the money then treat you unfairly. ask anyone who works there, and they will tell you the same story I am telling you. I miss the money, but I do not miss the Job.

In this industry there was no such thing as a typical day as the processes completed at this location were constantly changing. After arriving at work, I would access my workload and prioritize those tasks. Begin processing procedures, when the phone rings and there is another project being sent immediately that must be processed first. On most days as a team we could make the earth move to accomplish the processing of a procedure in order to keep the Plant moving.

Some co-workers were fun and honest to work with, while others were lazy. Which is very typical of most jobs. You have some that care and some that don't. The hardest part of the job was to watch the young people have so little disregard for explosives. The most enjoyable part of the job was to see the finished product and to know you are helping to keep our country safe and secure. I have learned without the protection our product affords we wouldn't have the freedom we so cherish today.

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