excavator operator

equipment technician

truck driver

equipment operator

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Phillips & Jordan Inc

What is the best part of working at the company?
The job itself is fulfilling. If you like physical work, an office outdoors, interacting and educating people, and working as a team and individually, you will enjoy this job.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
When you don't have the support of your leaders. That is a difficult thing at any job; when you know you've put your heart and soul into your job, do your best everyday, are committed to your employer, etc...however when you need your supervision and managerial leaders support, they are nowhere to be found. Instead they believe lies around them and press you down until you no longer can breath in the job that you did your absolute best at, withholding integrity as your strongest suit. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Hold your own. You'll be asked to compromise your integrity, you'll be tested on many levels of your integrity, both as a team member and as an individual employee. I chose integrity over succumbing to the pressures of society and job culture. Clients and customers loved me, but my own supervisors and managers despised me.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
The job is stressful. You are constantly dealing with changes, but you have to remember, change is a good thing, even when it is frustrating. You will be asked to revisit the same location multiple times because of changes, but don't lose heart. It always works out in the end. Just be honest. You will work when it's hot, when it's cold, when it's windy, when there's feets of snow on the ground, there are snakes, tall grasses, sometimes no carved out path to follow, multi-tasking, constant driving, distractions...be prepared for all situations. Remember your training and the equipment you are provided; they will come in use.

The project manager was about 370 pounds, the only time you ever saw him drive his lane city texas job was after work when he was dressed in camoflauge and was pig hunting. His live in girl friend ran the office, she was a good worker.Dont know what she saw in this PM but rank has its priveledges.You could smell the vodka on the field super by 10am in the morning, handed him gum and mints all the time.They had a traveling consultant that would stay for two weeks at a time. Thank god for this guy or they would lose money on every job. He was a Californian and he knew big dirt and scraper spreds and what those 657 scrapers are capable of.When this guy was around he would get this project dialed in and ahead of schedule.My supervisors could not do my job , nor had they ever seen one of these 657 scrapers work!The field super/ time keeper played favorites, who ever would bring their phone to work so he could call got of production machines and switched over to support, dozers, blade , water , etc! Hence the nepatism and good ole boy analogy comes from.Met other salaried position personel from the Tennessee office that were complete gentleman and very professional!

What is the best part of working at the company?
65 cent employee drinks. We get one employee fountain drink for 65 cents n can refill it from the fountain as many times as we want in our 8 hour shift



What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The manager at our store only expects certain ones should have to do their job and do it right n that's bull.  Please excuse my language. I have worked every weekend since I started to work there n she does not rotate the weekends or days like she is supposed to 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It is a very busy and expensive place. It is clean and warm environment. That is customer friendly. Always playing good music. Very friendly and helpful coworkers. Everything is always in stock 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Go in and click in. Bag my ten bags of ice. Take it out n put it in ice machine then start my list on my cash register which varies from day to day according to which register I'm on. Then just wait on n service customer til the end of my shift

management is a joke, promoted family and friends and politics with no respect for experience and education of qualified people. will not provide outside training for supervisors unless absolutely necessary for the job. supervisors and management will not tell craft anything, keep workers guessing and in the dark about holidays and whether you work the weekends. provide little to no coverage for salary personnel to take a personal day or days off. supervisors and management will degrade, be judgmental and down talk to people for mistakes they make and of others. no respect from supervisors or management. poor ethics to clients and craft. workers made several calls to HR about ethical treatment of workers from poor superintendents and foremen but nothing was really done. All talk but no respect, poor ethics and no integrity, all a dog and pony show.

It can be a place to raise your skill level and gain new knowledge of the construction trade but can also limit your skills advancement depending on the job site management. You have to deal with a lot of supervisors on big jobs. Some of them will help raise your knowledge and skills level but some lack the knowledge required and have no respect for you or your abilities to help them improve. I worked on 3 different job sites. On one my skills and knowledge was appreciated, one was a learning experience and one, in my opinion, had supervisors that held you back because of their inability to accept your help and knowledge. Overall it was a learning experience, both good and bad, in big job operations and management.

The day starts at the moment you wake up. Reviewing the days schedule. Looking for safe and efficient ways to reduce time, strain and load on company equipment and personnel. Examination of job sites and environmental factors that may have an impact on working conditions. Checking equipment at the shop for safety. Safety always comes first in the tree industry. It's extremely hard and dangerous work and I have learned that it is through good Team work and communication that we achieve a successful and safe day. Management consists of efficiency and control and fostering encouragement of a family type relationship amongst crews and company. The hardest part of the job are the environmental factors and logistics, everything else is easy with a good crew that constantly communicates.

Very unprofessional work environment, knowing someone will get you promoted a lot faster than being able to do your job correctly. Very dangerous working on slopes with people you have little to no experience or knowledge of doing work. Upper management will not correct or discipline their subordinates because they are all buddies. I personally made multiple phone calls to upper management management about very unsafe, unprofessional and life threatening situations and all that was done was me getting told to back off. Then the very next day they almost killed someone with the very exact thing I told them would happen the day before. But if you like to be ran in the dirt and no one give a crapabout you this place will be perfect for you! 

you get in a pretty normal routine of knowing what to do every day. I learned a lot about dirt moving and clearing as well as safety procedures that could save someones life and good practices. everyone was always treated fairly and given a lot of opportunity's to advance in there career. everyone on our crew were like family, we actually seen each other more than we seen our own family's and all got along really well. the hardest part of the job was the long weeks away from home working so many hours. The best part of the job was being able to do something new everyday and the money that was given for a long weeks work.

The work environment and everyday activities were not held in a professional manner. The owner or VP of the office belittled and downgraded everyone on a daily basis as did a couple of the project management team, work ethic was lacking, no direction of what was on the plan of the week schedule, no weekly office meetings to discuss any schedule or project issues that Duke Energy had onsite, weekly updates were always late and it was like pulling teeth to obtain them. 
There have been about 5 employees that have left the firm over the past year for numerous of issues including the above.

It's dependable as far as hours as long as there wasn't alot of rain. Depending on who you work for will determine your chance at advancement in other equipment. If you are a woman you are pretty much considered useless , you just get to run an off road truck or roller.  I work another company now. At least I get the chance to run other equipment there. Running a D5 now. I would have never been given that chance or even thought of running a dozer at P&J. That's men's work there.
I did have 2 great supervisors out of four there. There pay is low compared to other companies. But it's a job.

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