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The selkirk site is a good place to work overall. I work in maintenance which i think is a different experience compared to operations. I work for great people who treat me with respect and thank us for our hard work, cash awards and group lunches are given to show thanks. It can be an extremely frustrating place to work at times. Their work permit process and lockout processes are extremely strict if you like to work at a fast pace you will not like it. Often times a simple job may take hours of paperwork and prep. The pay is ok, they have a non flexible limit of 12hrs a day if you’re into overtime, double time is rare, they really don’t like it. The newer employees do not get the 10% shift differential which is driving some guys away, it’s got to be frustrating having people who may have only been there a year longer than you making significantly more.  It is a non-union plant and i think it works well, compared to other union plants that are full of friction. One thing that is similar to a union plant is hard work is recognized but not necessarily appreciated or even required  Your life may be easier if you’re talented but you won’t make more or get a chocolate waterfall for your desk. Lately engineers and operators have been resigning in droves. While our pay is close to surrounding places our culture and work environment make the job much less desirable. If someone can make just as much per hour without the liability and headache of hundreds of SOP’s and an unlimited amount of super strict rules, they’re going to do that. I’ve noticed many people are losing their fire or their passion for the plant which is causing them to leave. Some engineers will try to improve something, work on it day and night just to have the funds removed or have one squeaky wheel disagree with the project and shut it down or change it. The same goes for maintenance and operations many of the fulfilling aspects are being drained from these jobs and replaced with redundant paper work followed by scrutiny.   There is plenty of room for advancement they promote from within to a certain point so that’s a plus if you can tolerate it for that long. With pensions being a thing of the past there’s nothing to keep people there for long periods of time, they can make more in the same area with a more relaxed work life. With that being said some folks with low experience levels are being promoted quickly which has been working out well. They interview them and pick the right guy for the job not always the guy with the most time. I think if they bumped up the pay and eased the work environment it’d be a better place. They can’t remove safety regulations but i feel as though they place 80% of the responsibility on the employee. I think they should make it easier and more streamline to follow the rules and work safely. 

The only good thing about working at SABIC is the pay. They are by far, well above the average in this area. Other than thaqt it is a very time demanding plac eto work with zero work/life balance. It's a very bad rotating shif tschedule that the management will not even look at changing. Starts with a 12 hour evening to begin what normally works out to be a set of seven 12 hour evenings, the you may get one day off before starting a set of six 12 hour midnights. After that it's once again maybe two days off then a set of days that usually gets split between a noraml eight hour day and some 12 hour days. That would be the shift schedule, it's demanding time wise and leaves little time for anything family. The management is a very fluffy much of people that love telling you what they think you need to hear but usually end up doing something totally different that will benefit them and not the shift employees. They do love their fellow day employees and find ways to ensure they keep the status in line.

This place used to be one of if not the best place to work in the tri-state area. The schedule has never been good, but they compensated you well for your time. Over the past couple of years the company has slowly been taking benefits away from employees ( especially the hourly employees) for example: pension-GONE, time and a half on weekends-GONE, Double time pay-Gone, time and a half after 8 hours-GONE, vacation pay incentive-GONE, holiday pay for shift workers for thanksgiving and Christmas (which was 4 days of double time and a half)-GONE. HR is pretty much non existent unless it’s for the companies benefit. Management try’s to micromanage everything until a mistake is made on their part or other higher ups, then they want to wash their hands of it. Management will also let other dayshift/leadership employees write their own paychecks while shiftworkers get reprimanded if the clock in one minute too early costing them 30 minutes of pay. 

SABIC used to be a very good place to work,very relaxed and there were a lot of good reasons to go to work every day.It was challenging and the company was making a name in the industy.Then little by little good top management were seeing the changing environment and left for better offers.The ones that stayed,probably should have left also because they were not capable to make rational decisions,along with the Saudi presense.Its  a shame as a large part of the workforce has departed.its sad what the company has become what it is

At the beginning, even in the interview they were honest. The work life balance was not very good. You were compensated for your time away from home. However they changed pay rates, and the way overtime is figured. Example: before 2024 you get called in to work you get 4 hours time and a 1/2. Now you must work over 40 hours, so if use your vacation time on the last day of the week to see your family, you lose the overtime. Instead of cutting the unnecessary management overtime and positions they hit the workers first. 

SABIC is a very large company with a lot to offer.  Unfortunately, they go through a re-organization every 18-24 months, with re-assignments for employees.  Sometimes this works out well as you get to work in different functions and further your skill set, but more likely is you are placed in a similar job with less responsibility and without a pay increase.  In order to be successful, you have to be able to advance to a different role between re-organizations.

You are expected to work 24 hours a day 7 days a week (24/7). Benefits are OK. Very stressful and demanding work environment....your life is not your own.Constant changes with schedules -  meetings and travel arrangements, it is as if no one can decide what they really want and you better be on point with all the changes. Even on holidays or days off you are expected to have your mobile phone on hand and check email on your lap top.

Management totally unfit and  unqualified to lead anyone.
Management team is lazy and incompetent to say the least.
Company culture is horrible and in disarray.
Rumors of company closing and/or being relocated to Texas have caused people to jump ship like fish out of water, and have been said to have forced people into mental breakdowns, medical leave, etc.
Staff has mentally checked out and is basically just there.

I honestly would not recommend anyone working for this company.

Manager worries to much if you are walking in the green lines,and if you have a cell phone in your hand,in the meantime,there have been over 10 body injury and spills in the past 2 months,they need to focas on other things,other than picking on their employees,,,,morale is down,new hires work weekends for straight time while older employees get time and a half,night shift bonus is poor compared to older employees,and you are stuck at you job,because they are understaffed,

I worked here 7 years before they closed the Huntersville office. Great individual employees. A good population of the management had been entrenched for a while, they tended to bucket people based on their own ideas as those with 'leadership' potential, verses really being open to doing things new ways.

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