administrative assistant

designer

traffic controller

fleet mechanic

laborer

Q3 Contracting, Inc.

I have nothing good to say about my experience working here. I've worked in the Traffic Control Industry for 7 years and have never had the misfortune of working for a company like this. It took me one week to regret taking the job and decide I want to leave.

No matter what level of traffic control experience you have you will start out as a flagger and flaggers don't get paid as passengers in the vehicle for drive time to a job site. Only the driver gets paid for drive time. You work a lot of hours, so essentially you are putting in the same amount of time as the driver yet you're losing most if not all of your over-time pay while the person next to you isn't losing anything.

The person who was supposed to train me has 5 months on the job, and no previous experience in traffic control. Needless to say I had to train the trainer. The set up was wrong, drivers were being given false information and some of our traffic control devices were well below acceptable standards for use yet were still being deployed on a daily basis. I pretty much had to pull out the MUTCD (which my trainer had never heard of even though its the bible for what we do) to show them why the setup was wrong and walk them through step by step on how to properly set up something as basic as a shoulder closure. They couldn't even name the basic components of a traffic control zone, or the proper distances for placement of advance warning or channelizing devices. Don't get me wrong. My trainer was a nice person and very much wanted to do the best possible job they could and they were a hard worker. My point is having a rookie who has never stepped foot on a real traffic control project training your new hires is unsafe and counter productive to what we do. Especially when someone with far more real world experience and training gets hired and you totally ignore their qualifications.

If you have no life or fun outside of work, this would be a great position for you. There is no PTO, no paid holidays, hours cut due to weather. Management is also lost most of the time and not understanding. If you have a terrible address lists and can’t put up numbers or hit quota, they will have talks with you about your performance. You will have to travel outer state no matter what. They don’t care about anything but your performance hitting  quota. Only raise your gonna get is an incentive raise by hitting quota. I worked there for about 11-12 months and never hit it or got a raise because you’d have to hit 40 meters done consistently every day for 3 months. Weekly meeting are repetitive with the same topics. There feels like no goal for this job but to apply to become a plumber apprentice. Don’t get me wrong the work can be easy sometimes but if your addresses are terrible, you are screwed.

Made great friends at Q3 Contracting! The management is absolutely terrible there. They expect you to drop your whole life for them. Even your kids! They never recognize your hard work there and what you have done to help grow the company. They only care about if they are going to Bonus from everything you do there. As a matter of fact we did not receive a bonus this year but they did! no warning that we would not be getting one or anything. Something we have always received and looked forward to every year was this tiny bonus to help out with Christmas, but we did not get one!!! I know in Billing we would work close to 50 plus hours sometimes, and although the checks were nice that week we still never were appreciated for it. They have a very poor training program for everyone there.

Overall, this is a pretty good company to take a career with. There are a plethora of personal advancement options. 
They aren't inhuman, meaning they are fairly understanding of personal issues, jobsite incidents(unless seemingly intentional). Last minute time off for emergencies.
Truthfully, the biggest downside is the fact that they are contradictive at times, ie; they commend us for great work and production, and they try to promote more if a family oriented type of work place, but, if the production drops for a few days-a week, your job is threatened. 

I would never recommend anyone to work for this company very poor management cut throat does not care about their employees well be. They're not a company that thinks about a  Employees well being all they care about is making money and their employees are numbers I was told if I didn't like something that I was replaceable I am a heavy equipment operator and they had me doing labor's work It is not a good company to work for and I would never recommend this job to anyone no matter how badly needed a job They run all open capi quick in the Midwest in the wintertime and preach about safety I want seen a guy get road up from a safety guy in the summertime for taking his glove off to wipe his brow from sweat

The company overall is good, the guys you work with in the field have alot of experience and keep things professional. There is a mix of new and old equipment but if something breaks it promptly gets fixed. Some of the upper management in the office can make field work harder at times as some of them have Degrees instead of field experience. The safety and compliance standards are beyond what industry standards are which can both be a good and bad thing at times. This is a standard get paid the union rate company, dont expect a pay increase or a promotion unless you mess things up, than you'll get an office position. Overall a good company that has its flaws.

I hate my life while working for this company, and the only reason I'm still here is because the job market is so terrible. Management does not care about their employees and makes that quite clear with their policies, decisions, and lack of communication. Customers are awful and yell at us all the time. Nothing is ever consistent- I'll get in trouble for doing something a certain way one week, and the next I'm being scolded for not doing it that way. Do yourself a favor and run far, far away from this place. 

The job is honestly pretty boring.  The work will get mundane after a year and there is no clear path to advancing your career.  There are not a lot of opportunities here and over the three years I've been there I've seen management continuously mismanage this company.  The customers you get tend to be upset.  The culture has some flexibility, but what comes with that is micromanagement.  The only real good part of the job would be that it's easy, but again this gets boring.  People there are nice, but beware if you get an offer here.  I honestly wish I hadn't taken the job

This company plays favoritism! Every flagger there will tell you that too!  You never know if you are going to work the next day. If you complain, most likely you will be off the next day so don't do that!. That is just how the "scheduler/Traffic Coordinator" likes to play. She is a joke. She never texts you back like EVER!. Management just sucks. Especially the Area Manager.They will fire you without any proper warning. The job was great! Loved what I did and it was the best job! How the company ran it was bad! Union Pay was great. $19.75 an hour. You get the chance to travel too, which is fun. You get to explore other areas of Wisconsin.

This company has gone downhill fast over last few years.  Used to be a great place to work.

Management doesn't know what its doing.  They talk about leadership, but dont show any.  They dont support their people, dont have enough equipment, dont offer any real training.  When something goes wrong its just lots of finger pointing and people blaming each other so they aren't the ones thrown under the bus.  Good people are quitting, or getting fired by terrible management covering their own butts.  

Good place to get experience so you can work somewhere else.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Administrative assistant 9 salaries reported	$23.06 per hour
Designer 6 salaries reported	$26.50 per hour
Traffic controller 6 salaries reported	$26.76 per hour
Fleet mechanic 1 salary reported	$34.00 per hour
Laborer 3 salaries reported	$32.26 per hour

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