welder

tower technician

welder/fitter

maintenance technician

equipment operator

Sabre Industries

Garbage starting pay and raises, no room for advancement, 10-12 hour shift. The system is built to recycle people in and out. Only a handful have put up with it for a long period of time. I sucked it up for 2 years before they fired me on a technicality. HR and upper management pick and choose who they want to slap with the rulebook instead of it being equal across the board. Your job safety depends on your usefulness and who likes you. Dangerous work, while I was there,  1 fatality and another serious injury during one incident where a concrete wall for a shelter fell over on them due to lack of communication and corner cutting. They say there's plenty of work to do but you'll see electricians sweeping because there's so much to be done and yet you have to flesh out an 8-12 hour shift somehow. Inconsistency in work load. Some days seem slammed, others you have to make sure you don't finish too quick in order to make at least 8 hours. Warehouse is never comfortable to work in and they will make you work on buildings in pouring rain as long as there is no lightning. No forward planning. Warehouse is usually out of something critical, part or toolwise. By their philosophy, crosstraining gives you opportunity for MORE HOURS, rather than more per hour for your expanding experience. Tiny telecom side is usually yanked around to fill in for ever expanding energy storage side, Doing more for less pay

What is the best part of working at the company?
They listened to an issue I was having and fixed it quickly

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They don't pay the best, but it's great experience.  Also, you can be a few minutes late because your car broke down and you will get dinged for it.  My truck keeps giving me issues and they know that, and I can hustle to get to work on time, leaving my truck is in the middle of the road clogging up traffic and I still get hit with points even though it's out of my control that my truck is having issues.  So I went and bought a new truck to keep this from happening and it broke down in the first week on Hwy 75.  I was going to be 15 minutes early, but waiting for the tow truck caused me to be 30 min late.  I guess I understand that they can't give me special treatment due to my car problems, but I would appreciate it if they understood that I'm doing everything I can to get to work.  I mean, I even bought a brand new truck thinking that was going to fix it.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Clarity from management of what you're supposed to get done each day.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
10 hour days, usually 6 days a week.  But they don't work you to death which probably keeps people from leaving as often they would at other companies that kill you

First off, they pay is okay. And the only reason it is okay, is because of the OT you're forced to work. You'll work 50 hours per week minimum. Paid weekly which is nice. No raises after the initial certifications. Skill based pay which means no scheduled raises. Breaks were taken away. So now you'll be there for 11 hours per day with only two 10 minute breaks. Plus lunch break. Any person with any type of power (managers) have a fall in line or get the h#||out type attitude. I had an African American boss who used racial terms during an argument towards me and I took it to HR. I had FOUR witnesses which they interviewed and took statements and they did absolutely nothing about it. HR does not have your back at all. And by going to HR there will be retaliation. Leads, managers whoever yell at you to get back to work as you're walking back in from your break. Everybody will talk down to you. You're nothing but a number. If you haven't been there for 10+ years you're nobody and will be disposed of eventually. The only two good thing I can say about this company is being paid weekly, and coworkers are very cool. Only a few more days until I'm free. Found a better job.

No accountability. People massacre the coupon and leave it for you to fix. Bad management beyond leadmen. Overworked, underpaid, hard workers get pushed around and demanded to produce way beyond their payrate. Half of the shop employees are over qualified while the other half were never qualified. They hire burger flippers to be material handlers and then let them take a weld test that they barely "pass" and put them in a booth next to veterans with a 4-year degree making the same amount. Inconsistent hours. Months and months on end of 40 hour shifts with no overtime, then a sudden spike at a nominal 50-60 hours for maybe a month, then back to 40 hours again for who knows how long. Production numbers come way before quality. Major shortcomings in the inventory department leave large hiccups in the flow of production causing orders to fall far behind schedule, which also eventually causes the aforementioned situation with demanding that low rank employees produce beyond their payrate once the parts and materials are finally on site. I can only recommend this job to someone who absolutely needs income at the expense of their sanity, or needs income while looking for a much, much better place of employment. Which would be nearly anywhere.

I’ll start with the only redeeming quality this place has. You work with some great people if you work on the production floor. They are the only ones who will actually care for you.

Other than that the management is terrible and have the entire idea that everyone is replaceable. Which is why they now have to go all over the country to welding schools for get people that don’t know better to come work for them. And on that topic they get these kids from the schools who just racked up thousands in debt when Sabre has a program that’ll pay you while you learn to weld.

They offer the full array of benefits but the health insurance is not cheap by any means. Don’t hold your breath on any kind of bonus because if they do give one out it’s nothing to brag about (unless you’re in management of course). 

As far as hours on the production floor you’ll pretty much work 58 hours a week year round and only have one day off a week. 

I could really go on for awhile about all the reasons you shouldn’t work here. This place will chew you up and spit you out and laugh in your face the whole time it’s doing it. They are truly better places to work, keep looking.

The plus side to this company is that once you grasp the material and get settled in, you can pretty much do all the overtime you wish to do with no questions asked.  There is good camaraderie among the draftsman in this 20-man department.

The cons to this job is that in order to meet the deadlines on multiple projects you have, overtime is almost required in order to complete them on time.  The includes Saturdays and Sundays.  Failure to complete a project on time counts against the draftsman, even if the circumstances were beyond your control.  In two to three years you will be burnt out.  In the history of the company, very few draftsmen have made it past three years.

Pay is reasonable, but performance reviews and raises are far and between.  No raises were given in 2015, perhaps as a result of the takeover from Saber Industries.

The draftsmen are treated as more of a liability to the company than an asset.  This attitude prevails from the upper management's perception of the draftsman, and has been around since the beginning of FWT.  It is this attitude that has prevented draftsmen from making this place a career.

10 hour days, 6 day weeks, "training" is abysmal, management is a joke, they only seem to care about production numbers. Everything else is your problem. Zero accountability unless you screw up on a section, everything else is meh. Zero praise on doing well, never know how your doing unless your doing it wrong or too slow. They don't invest in their production team, so its just a revolving door. You're just a cog in a rusty wheel that they refuse oil. Shut up, produce, or move along. Seriously, all they need to do is invest into their employees careers, stop worrying about just getting bodies in there to feed the revolving door, and everything else would fall into place for them. Train your employees well enough to where they could get a job anywhere. Pay and treat them well enough so they never have to. Show some actual praise and appreciation. 

Sabre Is an okay place to work if you are just needing some experience for your resume But, once you get it you'll be getting out as soon as possible and trying to forget everything you learned there. Management trys to force QC to sign off on terrible product. They promote themselves as safety first, quality 2nd, and production 3rd. In reality it's production, production, and more production. Place is a mess, safety guy doesn't even walk out on the floor because if he did he would have to shut production down. Most of the welders there are fresh out of lonestar or tulsa and don't know how to properly weld and rather then allowing quality to correct them and make them rework their welds the correct way Management always gives into the welders/production and they never learn any better. With that being said, If You are a new welder be careful coming here as you will learn a lot of bad welding habits that will get you run off a job at any serious company. 

Sabre has been a good company so far to work for. Unless we ever go to 40 hours don’t see myself leaving here. Been in the oilfield past 9 years laid off 3 times. Makes it hard to have a life not knowing about layoffs.  I don’t see that happening here but who knows with this economy. Mostly work 50 Hour weeks with option for Saturday unless we are busy then everyone works but they tries to let us know ahead of time. PTO is a bad part of sabre with like a week but they pretty much work with you if you need time off just might not be paid.   Good exp. For newer people for welding. NOT fitting. But they won’t usually hire fitters unless you got some exp. Pay Could be better than what it is. Everyone seems in good spirits except for your few petty pattys . If you come here for your first job be ready to work a lot. Don’t apply if you can’t handle 50 to 58 hours weekly. There’s a point system for attendance. If you don’t show up for work you will be let go pretty fast. The secret…. Show up for work.

You may have better chances in succeeding in a company like this as a higher up like a QC, lead, or supervisor or working any position on days other than that you’re gonna go through a hard time. If you’re a material handler, expect to work for the machine operators and I mean that quite literally because the machine operators always tell you how to do your job and complain about everything and if they don’t like the way you’re doing something they’ll either do it themselves or report it and then you get griped at for nothing. The supervisors and leads on night shifts aren’t worth anything and are never around when you need to ask a question or need maintenance. We’ve had people killed out here because of management not wanting to spend a little extra money to help make the company a little safer and the funny thing is that they have the audacity to preach about safety when there is none. If you have a family and actually want to make a living for your children walk the opposite direction of this god forsaken sweatshop.

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