plumber

warehouse associate

site superintendent

logistics coordinator

superintendent

R.T. Moore

I work in the CAD department and the company isn't AWFUL but could improve. The work environment is VERY relaxed - we often banter and joke, rubber bands get shot around occasionally, desk decoration is acceptable, we listen to YouTube/music while working, the break areas are well outfitted and nice with filtered water on tap, microwaves, toasters, full fridges with ice, sinks, Keurigs and Bunn brewers with company provided coffee for the Bunns.

The direct management is responsive, personable, accessible and transparent. They are willing to admit flaws and endeavor to become better managers to the crew they lead. HOWEVER, they as well as their crew are often overloaded. With the CAD department in Indianapolis providing all the support for multiple jobs in multiple states, the work load constantly is oppressive. Projects routinely run 1 calendar year+ in duration leading to intense burnout. Hiring of further personnel is slow, meaning that we receive one new person and 3 persons worth of new work at a time. In their defense they are picky about hiring and they assembled a great team as a result - but that doesn't make it less work. Field crews are awful about doing as-builts and communicating field fixes or heading off issues which leads to coordination pitfalls. Deadlines are frequently unrealistic for the workload but are also poorly enforced. Everyone is routinely frustrated with the workload and it's a well known issue among the department. 

Training is getting better as time passes. Many new folks are given little to no training and learn entirely on the job while working actual projects. Routine training is being implemented but it is still largely trial- by- fire with new folks being hired and immediately put on full jobs to try and help the immense workload instead of having time to train them. The field crews are MUCH better supported in getting training than the office workers. 

The benefits are decent - a single employee who smokes (they routinely verify non-smokers with in- office blood draws) can take the entire package for about $70 a week. They are self-insured but Community takes the insurance and that's 90% of the area. Adding dependents drives the price way up. Dental benefit is slim but better than nothing. Vision benefit is similar. Looking at 1,500 deductible/ 6500 out- of- pocket for a single person medical plan on the highest buy-up plan. They also offer a HSA plan. PTO is the worst benefit- it's an earn-as-you-go system that results in your PTO trickling in week by week. If you work a full year at full time, you'll end up with (5) 8 hour days at the end. There is only general PTO, no sick/ personal/ e.t.c plans.Time off requests are almost always approved, they are very accommodating to doctor appointments, e.t.c as well.  They say this system will be overhauled by 2020.

Work schedule is somewhat flexible. My department caps at 48 hours a week (more hours require direct approval) with most folks starting about 7am. They prefer we get our hours worked between 6am - 6pm Monday - Friday but it isn't enforced. We are expected to work at least 40 hours a week BUT not working "enough" overtime hours is also frowned upon somehow. If you work 40 hours a week and are staying current on work, you'll get a "friendly talking to" where they suggest maybe you should also do portions of other people's work. They dress it up like they're trying to give you a way to get more hours and more money but it's moreso trying to divide up the workload more. I don't mind helping my coworkers but if I've met my 40 I don't believe I should be expected to continue working arbitrarily. Weekends are available to work by employee choice, so long as you have hours left/ approval for overage, but are rarely worked by most of us. 

All in all, it isn't awful. The PTO, training, burnout are the biggest issues. It could improve but I've certainly had worse gigs.

Where do I even begin? I had a bad feeling about this company right off the bat, but told myself I would make it work. When they first offered me the job they absolutely low-balled me. When I called out their recruiter, he lifted my salary by 10 grand at the drop of a hat. My biggest concern about this job before going into it were the hours and was promised that I'd work 10 hours max per day by the same recruiter. When I got there, I was basically told that that would never work. I routinely worked 11 to 12 hours a day, and most days didn't even have time to eat because I was too busy. I had to run, physically run, throughout the day to keep up with the high demands of everyone. Another thing I was also told by my boss and interim boss/trainer and just about everyone else was that my position was basically the "company-you-know-what"  The plumbers were chill, but would just trash everything, forcing us to spend valuable time, sometimes hours, cleaning up after them. The warehouse workers that I worked with were good guys but would show up hours late with no excuse or disappear for 45 minutes at a time, some days, leaving me to do a huge chunk of their work on top of my own. When I mentioned this to my interim boss/trainer I was basically told I couldn't reprimand them because their working knowledge of the warehouse made them too valuable to lose, but then I would get in trouble when all of the work for the day wasn't completed in a timely fashion. Any time I did not agree to take on some ridiculous task that was clearly someone else's job that person would just go around me and I would get reprimanded. Management couldn't even convince their own plumbers to fix the sewage/plumbing system just outside the warehouse that had clearly been broken for a long time and created a physical moat when it rained around their receiving dock, but would go out of their way to point out the smallest of my mistakes. When I was let go there was no warning. I received no verbal or written warning whatsoever before I was sent packing. When I asked for specific reasons why I was being let go, all that they told me was that I "was not a good fit." When I continued to ask for specifics as to why I wasn't a good fit they claimed they had a list of mistakes that I had made that had cost them money. When I asked to see the list they literally told me the list "was not important" and/or "wasn't worth getting into." They let me go the week my benefits kicked in, and got rid of my benefits the day I was let go, instead of letting it run out over the course of the month like most companies, forcing me to scramble to find health care for my 1 year old son who was very sick, since I had just switched him over from my wife's plan to my own. Furthermore, when they let me go they gave me a severance plan of one week. Stupidly, I signed it, worried about how I was going to pay for my son's medical issues, but later when looking at the fine print, it basically said that by signing the document I agreed to give up my right to file for unemployment. This company did me in right from the beginning and never let up the gas. I waited until my final paycheck and severance pay were physically locked into my bank account, in fear of further retribution, before writing this review. They will know who wrote it. I believe this will be a blessing in disguise. I understand that if you read this you may think I am just a disgruntled ex employee and maybe that's true. But what I've presented above are pure facts, nothing more. Decide for yourself.

I began in residential plumbing, which I found peaceful and semi enjoyable. Eventually advancing on to a huge commercial project which I learned a lot of new skills from. Skills like crew leadership, also becoming skilled with using heavy machinery. Then moving on to logistics and coordinating with two different Crane operators on moving large amount of cast iron pipe through the air and around the job site. That was probably the most dangerous part of the job. Each month the building got higher and higher and I would be the guy hanging off the side of the building speaking to the crane operator while pulling Cast Iron in and onto different floors of the building. I enjoyed until i realized some of the people i worked with and relayed on for being safe were drug addicts and that when I realized it was time for a change as I am a proud father will not jeopardize my future with her by working with people if made a mistake could seriously injure or kill me.

Pay is more than fair for the kind of work being done. This is the absolute basics of plumbing installation. Great opportunity to get through school and get licensed. You work with good people.  If you can get along and be reasonable, they’ll absolutely work with you.  Obviously, if you’re publicly whining every day, always late, constantly calling off, do bad work, or are in the bottom 5% of quality and speed, I’m sure those guys get pulled aside. 

But even then, just don’t be an idiot, finish what needs done, do it right, and it’s a totally chill place to work where no one will bother you.  Very low stress place to work and start a plumbing career. 

Want to work for a bonus instead of an actual manager? This is the place for you. Every department at this company has a manager who makes a quarterly bonus. That goes for the warehouse manager, to the dispatch manager and obviously your service managers. I worked at this place for just over 9 months and saw a 40 paycheck once or twice, and that’s only because of traveling with the company. They will short you on hours and even cut you off at a certain point just so the labor hours are good and the manager gets his bonus. It’s a pathetic way to run a company and I wouldn’t want even my worst enemy working for them. If you’re looking for a plumbing job or an hvac job, look elsewhere. This is NOT a good place to work.

It is a company full of favoritism, there is no leadership, some work more than others if there are lazy people, the lazy people are given easy tasks to the worker, they exploit him and more than half are lazy, you have to go do everyone's work, no they know how to solve labor problems they retaliate against the employee if the employee complains to human resources, they look for the stupidest excuse to fire you because the supervisors and managers are incompetent it is a company to go through a bad patch while you find a good job

They hire undocumented people to pay them little and exploit them doing the jobs that the rest don't want to do, then they fire them for stupid reasons, they take advantage of the situation of people who don't have documents.

Work load began at 6:00 am through 2:00 pm.  Assisted plumbers with Time Sheets, work orders and translations for some in Spanish.  Hardest part of the job was the overwhelming amount of work orders that needed to be created while working with Time Sheets pointing out errors corrections.  Having to work through lunch hours in order to stay ahead and the amount of over time required in order to complete daily task.  I was able to work with amazing group of people with knowledge in all areas of the business.   My experience with this company was educational and was given an opportunity to work when first arrived in State.

I initially loved my job when I first started working there.  By the end though I knew that I was on the outside looking in because if you weren't a guy or played by the "guy club" rules then they get rid of you.  So near the end I was given impossible demands and wasn't held to the same standards as everyone else was so that in the end they could feel good about themselves when they got rid of me.  However now that I'm back to looking for a job, I see that they are hiring for the same position that I was fired from so I guess karma has a way of coming around.

The company culture is very unique. Leadership makes an effort to know employees by name and if you have a question, leadership/managers are approachable and always make time for employees. 

Communication has greatly improved within the past few years. My team and I like the fact we stay current in where the business is going, we have the ability to foster creativity, give a constructive critique of work, and have a  path for professional advancement.

It's exciting to be a part of a growing company that treats people they way the should be treated.

I didn't like working here, the salary is low, the work environment is hypocritical and full of favoritism, they make you work hard while they need you then they look for any simple excuse to fire you, many people also quit, they simply don't return to work, for the reason that while some work, the others are sitting at their desks or hiding somewhere, they assign you to do a job, then they send you to do the work of others and so the wheels turn, or and I forgot, they steal your accumulated pto when they fire you or you quit when It is an accumulated time that you already have the right to be paid, I do not recommend this company

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Plumber 45 salaries reported	$22.00 per hour
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Site superintendent 14 salaries reported	$77,500 per year
Logistics coordinator 13 salaries reported	$22.00 per hour
Superintendent 2 salaries reported	$80,000 per year

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