wind turbine technician

facilities manager

finance associate

administrator

senior internal auditor

Pattern Energy Group

Pros: 
No shortage of amazing people with strong variety of industry experience in the lower ranks who know how to work hard. 
Team tripled in assets and employees from 13 to 15. 
Exec. Mgmt team is experienced with finance and development, has incredible network and strong relationships with vendors and partners.
Incredible financial story from private to public.
Strong and agile development pipeline that could be incredible with adjustments to operations model. 
Hedged with vast range of locations for wind/solar performance.

Cons: 
The deal-focused development culture with loose roles and responsibility has challenges with efficiency; 
- Afraid of applying quality methods or standardization.
- Strong and talkative management personalities who have limited experience in the operating side of the industry, despite finance/development roots. 
- Heavy email, slow decision making abilities, hesitant to empower and allow decision making. 
- Strong risk aversion with complex policies leads to inability to quickly purchase or contract vendors.   
- Unsure about long term future model and therefore unclear overhead plan, importance of ownership, etc. 
- No cost strategies, no goal-based performance. 
- Limited levers to make revenue adjustments due to reliance on wind or sun only. 
- Leadership is openly more concerned about stock price than team building and developing cultural behaviors. 
- No data or systems to use for making business decisions.
- Assets are very spread out and team has limited international experience to apply
- Executive, Construction, Operations and Development offices are not co-located and teams work in stovepipes and rice bowls between Houston, San Diego, San Francisco and dev offices.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Supportive colleagues at a peer level

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Upper management prioritizes their own career advancement and have poor structure on how to delegate tasks properly. While leadership often encourage employees to take PTO, it comes with strings attached that you may be working even when you are off and more than likely to come back to busier workload.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Poor psychological safety culture is being cultivated with the recent focus on the company’s largest project in the country. Managers are poorly trained to support their direct reports and often focus on taking credit of the work of their subordinates and then disregarding their employees when they no longer suit their goals related to their performance reviews. The company has let their most productive talent leave or get discarded to support toxic leadership for face value. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Answering emails, supporting operations with various projects or tasks deemed favorable by leadership versus what the operating wind sites need/want, and mostly completing administrative tasks as asked by upper management to support their personal needs to advance professionally.

A typical day at Pattern Energy involves planning and coordinating events to boost employee engagement and culture. I learned effective time management, vendor negotiation, and event logistics. Management is supportive, encouraging innovation and collaboration. The workplace culture is inclusive and dynamic, fostering a positive environment. The hardest part of the job is managing multiple events simultaneously while ensuring each runs smoothly. The most enjoyable part is seeing the positive impact on employee morale and the sense of community built through successful events.

A typical day at work, stock kitchens and supply rooms. Fill copiers with paper, ink and waste toners. Order catering for scheduled meetings. Schedule meetings if they are not already. Book conference rooms. 

What I learned; you have to be on your toes. You have to have short solutions to things that may come up unexpectedly; such as catering for a meeting last minute. 

Management is well structured. We don't have an office manager per say, however, with different level positions within Pattern it works well. 

The hardest part of the job is you are always on the go. Make sure and have comfortable shoes!

The most enjoyable part of the job, is getting to work with great individuals in different departments of the company.

I worked at Pattern for a few years between its initial inception as a private company, and then later when it evolved to a public company. The company culture, which was like a start-up, intimate and familial, was great back in the early days. The company culture took a massive nosedive when it went public around 2012/2013. I left during this phase as the work environment had changed dramatically and became way too stressful. Since my departure I have heard that the company reverted back to a private company so perhaps the culture has improved since then.

Good paying job, but had to work a lot of nights from home and weekends.  Very stressful with a lot of pressure to get the job done.  No recognition for successfully doing my job.  A very development focused company that didn't recognize operations as being important, until something went wrong and then upper management would be all over you.  Very unequal distribution of work for different departments.

The company started as a development company and has always had that as their strength. However; as an operational specialist, the infrastructure was not there to fully support the field management per the project led contractual agreements. This often made life much more stressful than it should/could have been for the operational field management. 
They should really be careful/reduce signing agreements which they are unable to provide effective corporate full support.   

What is the best part of working at the company?
Favoritism and poor management 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not getting to same hours as everyone else 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Fueling and washing buses sometimes cleaning the inside 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Other employees get paid for 6 hours but working 3 hours

The pay is in line with similar roles but the hours can very long and there is an expectation to weekends and late nights especially around month end and quarter end with little recognition. There is good exposure to fairly complex accounting but there are limited opportunities for advancement and culture is poor, especially in finance.

This company was competing with Google for employees in their San Francisco office, so they had a lot of neat incentive programs. Work life balance was great with opportunities to work from home frequently. However the company had just recently gone public when I worked there and was experiencing growing pains they were not prepared for.

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