equipment operator

utility worker

laborer

operator

plant operator

Source Energy Services Ltd.

It is a shame to be embarrassed to name a company you work for in conversation, but that is the case for Source Energy Services. With so many great workers with a company and decent enough benefits why would you not want to work here. 
Shall we begin? Up front we will tell you exactly what you want to hear, not because we want to, but because we have to. Once you are embedded into the system, you either comply, or will be fired. Working conditions are horrible, not because employees disregard responsibilities, but because manpower is slim. This goes unnoticed or allowed for long time periods and once it is seen by "Important People" it is labeled unacceptable and expected clean within current shift. Weather conditions mean nothing for trying to operate through, well for those that sit in an office or home with family after their 8-4 day. Even after surviving all of these topics, production is still highest on expectations. Expect overtime, whether you like it or not, usually at last minute or the night before. 
Moving along in the positions, Safety is basically absent. It is a safe place to work, but that is due to skilled workers. Safety does little to no inspections through the weeks or month to find or improve potential hazards. Most wont even know locations of PPE or Safety Devices throughout the plants. Usually the most you will see Safety in the field is when they are trying to undermine each facility and direct blame. Human Resources is with the company, you are a number in their book, but they are there, sometimes, maybe, during their hours and if they want to answer the call. Supervisors are disappearing fast due to increased workload and accountability levels with little room for error. There is no supervisory training anymore and some are given the position only because there is no one else.
Managers are empty shells. Ignoring real problems and micromanaging for pointless changes. They are right and you are wrong, no matter the situation, unless you can trick them into thinking the idea was theirs. They are more of the lie to your face and an empty promise promoting work ethic than informative and skill building type. Some actually provoke deception within the company from facility to facility in hopes it will gain them value. 
Above managers you will find the leadership model of Fear. Fear that if you do one thing wrong you will lose your job without hesitation. Managers fear losing their own jobs so they are "Yes Sir" and enforce that on to their inferiors. 
Production and the market value fluctuate through the year, sometimes you are busy and other times you are dumping half of the finished product out to fill an order that gets canceled. Schedules change as a result and voluntary overtime is offered. If there is not enough volunteers, then mandatory overtime will be enforced.
At the peak of which I want to describe is you will be a number or a bar code, just a value in a equation that cares less about the workers and more about the profit. Turnover is limited as either they wont hire skilled applicants or HR fails the task. Layoffs have stripped credibility to the company and management is increasing the quitting and firing statistic. Source Energy Services has changed. Change can be good, but not their ideas of change. I would suggest something else.

At least Production Goal Bonus and Safety Bonus talk has stopped so we will no longer need to get hopes up for those.

The hardest part of the job is knowing that every day is going to suck, not only because of the job, but because your morale is drained with no sign of relief. Whether it be waiting for retirement, other job search or death, most employees could care less about their job at Source Energy Services.

The most enjoyable part of the job can be the employee crews as they work together for long hours and mandatory overtime days, great trust and chemistry can form.

This place is so messed up. The production supervisors are all amazing people to work with, but management above them is a fricken joke. They have been driving away/firing the management who actually cares about the employees, just so they can fill the positions with their buddies. They continue to cut costs almost always at the employees expense. They purchased preferred sands for over 80 million dollars, but can't give us even decent healthcare, as a matter of fact, it went up almost $200 a month last year and is terrible coverage.  Last year they decided to not give anyone a raise. Our promised bonuses were a fraction of what we were told we were going to get. They kept raising the production bonuses untill they were impossible to meet. Now as of this morning, they are taking away our paid sick time(3 days) and the new vacation policy effectively reduces your days off. No instead of 8 hours counting for a whole day off, you have to use 12 hours so now two weeks of vacation instead of being 10 days, is now only 6 days and 8 hours. You work every holiday that your shift falls on. Production numbers are more important to these people than you spending time with your family on Christmas. Heck they don't even shut the place down for their own christmas party. If you're scheduled to work then you just don't get to go. They downsize equipment to save on costs, which just means you gotta work even harder, and don't fix the equipment when it breaks, because they "laid off" one equipment mech and that ticked off the other one so he quit and have yet to hire a other one. There's a lot of other things that don't get fixed around the plants, because it will cost too much.  Maintainece Dept is stretched super thin, with many of them working ridiculous hours of overtime and they still can't keep up with even preventative maintenance. Placed is micromanaged with them even going as far as installing cameras so management can watch employees at work. Employee moral is terrible, as we all feel like we are just a number to management.

You will not make it anywhere in the company unless you are buddies with  upper management. Management gets brand new trucks for personal use but hourly employees cant even get promised bonuses or raises. Managers do not have backbone to fight for employees. When Applying for the job I was told that there was production bonuses and a $0.75 cent raise for every piece of heavy equipment that you learned and have not received any bonuses or raises for what I know. The more you know the more you do but the pay does not come with it.

They took away our paid sick time(3 days) and the new vacation policy effectively reduces your days off. Now instead of 8 hours counting for a whole day off, you have to use 12 hours so now two weeks of vacation instead of being 10 days, is now only 6 days and 8 hours. Guys that have been here for a long time ended up going from 20 days of vacation and 3 sick days down to 13 days of vacation. The vacation was the best part about working here as after 6 years, you would earn 4 weeks of vacation. Now they ruined that and killed a lot of incentive to stay long term. The company is also to cheap to pay out unused vacation at the end of the year, so you end up with really low staff the last month or two as people are trying to use up their vacation. We believe this is a big reason for the vacation policy overhaul. 

Most time there is little to no notice for overtime. Production numbers are more important to these people than safety. Maintenance department is low staffed and the company refuses to fix a lot of things because of cost, but they ultimately end up paying way more for the down time of the plants because of what they refused to fix.

This was an awesome company to work for when I started there but things started falling through the cracks. They will hire you and guarantee compensation for your hard work and knowledge but that's just to get you in the door. They will continue to assure you raises and possibly even promotions but that's just to drag you along so you wont walk away. They would keep telling us how we were making incredible production numbers but the bonus was merely a high five. They would preach safety and give you a bonus for being safe which ended up being a free lunch here and there. And honestly when It comes to safety, it was never a priority, but a handy slogan to say safety is their number one priority when we all knew in reality they just want to see production numbers climb.              
         In all, source has lost there morale compass as to how they should treat their employees and run a business. Once they start taking care of the hard working employees that make those production numbers possible, they might be able to turn the place around to being a fun, loyal, productive facility.

Management does not care about employees and does not understand the process within the mine.  They make knee jerk decisions without looking at the consequences only to change things back to the way they were two weeks ago.  The employees below management level are not given any information on day to day operations so no one feels any sort of purpose any more.  Insurance is overpriced for anyone not on single person plan and doesn't cover much of cost anyway.  Management is afraid to hire in case of more layoffs so employees get overworked and this in turn leads to people being stressed.  Nothing is proactive any more, meaning that nothing gets taken care of before it is completely broke down and useless which makes it hard on everyone from maintenance down to production.  

There is no management there is zero communication between employee and supervisor you might see the supervisor once a week and your guess is as good as mine as to when the manger comes around any problems you are having are just that they are your problems and yours alone when your department is short on employees by like 2/3 staff there is no coverage or help from the supervisor/manager it’s just expected that you change your schedule to suit there needs at any cost no matter how that affects your home life great place to work if your super experienced in sand mining process as there is no instruction from anyone when things go down or break you need to to take care of it your own most likely will not have parts to fix the actual problem so you will be forced to continue operations with out the piece of equipment that’s broke down by using your imagination and the only way you will know if you made the right call is if you continue not hearing from your supervisor/manager 

I enjoyed my time at SES, for the most part the crews were great to work with. Occasionally you would end up with someone on your crew that wasnt very dependable, but they weed themselves out over time. My immediate supervisor was easy to work with, knew we would get the job done and wasnt overbearing. Upper management could be difficult to deal with, they only seemed to care about production and safety was out the window. It really falls on you to make sure you hold safety as priority over everything. Plenty of opportunity for advancement if you want to work for it and learn as much as you can about every part of the operation. The pay is by far the best around in my opinion for how laid back the job is. If you can handle a little bs from upper management and work hard when its needed it's a pretty good job. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
I extremely love my job. Management takes the time to listen to issues that you are having. HR makes time for you when needed all are easily reachable. The people are work with are amazing. Competitive wage for people seeking employment with no experience.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
In my field we deal with constant changes. We are able to make quick decisions with strong leadership to overcome any circumstance.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Everyone gets along from the top to the bottom. People are friendly easy-going hard-working staff.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
My typical day starts with morning meeting to discuss any hazards and the daily plan. Some light computer work and then I'm right out there with the crew loading and cleaning up messes.

Plant manager, summer assistant manager, a couple other supervisors, HR, and the VP all are very unethical and all about themselves not caring about the employees unless if they have relations then they do whatever they can to protect and work with them. They lie about EVERYTHING, they refuse to let a females learn and advance, always making excuses! Sometimes men too, it just depends on if they like you or not. They also like to hire anyone, even people that lie on their resume just to say they have experience. This is where they get their priorities messed up or at least some of them. They need real authority there! The company itself is a good place to work. If they got rid of everyone listed it would be even a better place! More people would stay and want to work for them! It’s a real joke working for individuals like themselves!

What is the best part of working at the company?
I started working for this company two years ago and they’ve treated me well! I’ve made advances in the company and there more than willing to teach and show the proper way of maintaining the plants !

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Working at this company has its ups and downs, but the fast paced working environment sometimes creates a struggle when there’s more than one plant broke down

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is overall respectful, and the employees are pretty easy to get along with 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day at Source Energy usually includes daily plant maintenance an inspections of each plant to keep them running proficiently

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