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Sturgeon Electric

Workflow is okay and will keep you busy, but they are currently in the process of revamping the Administrative department and no one really has a clear view of their role anymore. Training has improved for any new hires, but the older staff have been left to figure out the next steps on their own because they have been told that there are only specific people who they can go to with questions or for training, and those few individuals are always in meetings or training the new hires. Everyone who works in that department only works there because they knew someone else who worked or works for the company, and while a majority of the individuals in the department are friendly, there are a few who have been there a very long time that will not talk to you or treat you like you are bothering them. Management will ignore that behavior if you're well-liked amongst the higher ups, but if you are on their bad side, they will pit you against your coworkers until you leave on your own or you are let go.
The pay is alright, but everyone starts at less than 50k annually. You get two weeks of PTO, and that is also your sick pay. They forget to give reviews, self-starters are frowned upon, and ideas you may have to improve small tasks for your job are often met with negativity. If you voice your opinions or concerns, you are a problem. The turn over rate is fairly high. On the bright side, jeans and tennis shoes every day, $15 per paycheck for health insurance for you and your dependents, they will work with your schedule if you have appointments to go to, and they have a food truck or a restaurant bring in food for everyone once a month.

Sturgeon Electric is the 2nd largest electrical contractor in the United States which offered me the opportunity to always be challenged with very large and exciting projects.  During this time period I worked for the company as an employee for the early part of the tenure, but this eventually migrated into a consulting position as many other contractors needed my help with other projects so I was shared between Sturgeon, Ludvik and Dyna.  

In the early years of working with Sturgeon I was able to negotiate and build the entire Level 3 campus as well as the Sun Microsystem Campus.  Each one of the jobs exceeded 15 million and ended up to be a fantastic experience for the owner, the general Contractors and Sturgeon Electric.  From there I went on to do many electrical claims for various jobs which included IBM data Centers, The Newton Auditorium, The DIA Runway project and the mega project of adding a new 132 thousand volt distribution system from New York to Omaha, Nebraska.  This Contract well exceeded 150 million dollars and was completed in less than two years.

I am sure that there was a time this business ran smoothly by professionals. It wasn't that way during my time there unfortunately. It is now ran by unprofessional, inexperienced, overworked, power hungry individuals. I really enjoyed the administrative work I performed however the workplace culture was toxic everyday. People weren't allowed to talk to each other or assist each other which created a lot of tension. The training for new hires is atrocious and completely different for each person. They say there is an open door to communicate however anything expressed is turned around on the person and met with retaliation. Management doesn't take responsibility or accountability for anything they do or don't do. I suspect that Executive management doesn't know how the toxic nature of the offices are tearing the place apart. If it is that they don't care, that is sad, but I imagine they simply don't know. I don't recommend that anyone work there that hopes for a future with a respectable company ran by professionals. This isn't that kind of place.

day starts out stocking truck completing paperwork from day before driving to job site isolating secondary wire locating damage wire digging down to wire clean and cut out damage and splice wire back terminating wire back ckecking load and volt
The training  that you receive and the on the job training  safety training is all a step above the rest
management is good to a point communication and respect is lacking but over all most of the forman are help full and are super foreman
my co-workers are mostly all good workers in the line of work we  learn some thing new every day and that's what I tried to teach my ground man soon as you stop learning something and start thinking you know every thing is when you are going to get hurt
the hardest thing having a round point shovel when you should have a backhoe.....lol
this is the best thing of all the enjoyment of being in a different spot every day and figuring out what is wrong with each job and repairing circuits all over town

Sturgeon has the right idea. The management on the other hand does not. Very rude individuals, cutthroat, lots of favoritism and plenty of lying and butt kissing. Management is NEVER around and don't you dare ask a question you will get in trouble. This is a fake it until you make it place. Admin is the Witch of the West. Estimating guys are cool but everyone else was a nightmare. More of "the help" than an employee. Long hours, demanding work and no help. Upper management makes you perform grunt work I.E. getting them breakfast, washing dishes, taking clothes to cleaners and not even a simple thanks. I hated working here. I would leave feeling drained and even having my worth questioned. Save yourself the heartache and find a company who treats you as a person and not property. There was a lot of free food from meetings and stuff but you are usually left the leftovers or half eaten items. Be weary... I'm in no way upset. I wasn't let go, I quit and haven't been happier.

I have worked for Sturgeon several times in my career in the Denver area.
They have displayed a very mixed management style, good, but mostly bad. They will get you anything you need to move the job along as far as personnel and equipment, but if there is a glitch in the road as far information, personal conflicts ect. look out! They will pin the blame, especially if your a foreman.  The safety culture is also something of a misnomer, it's there to avoid an OSHA audit and keep job prospects high. Throughout my time here I can't tell you how many times someone has been reprimanded for bringing up a legitimate safety issue on various job sites. I'm glad I'm at the end of my career!

Sturgeon Electric company was the best job and employment I had. The job experience and equipment to do the job was amazing alone. My first foreman was the biggest jerk I ever knew to this day. I learned to take his temperament as a positive and it made me a very thick skinned man. I eventually learned that he was just training me for what was a big factor in the construction industry which was full of men like him. I learned more in my five years of  employment with sturgeon like I attended a 4 year college. I would have nothing negative to say in my review until I got hurt on the job and things went horribly bad. this company has dishonest doctors in their work comp part of It which I will not speak any more about. As long as you don't get hurt they are a great company

Corporate office Admin are jealous and wanted to micro manage every minute to a T on what you work on and where you go and who you talk to it became very unprofessional and high schoolish. Administrative management team needs be addressed and looked at for their immature and unprofessional attitudes and actions. If you're not part of the clique, nothing you do is good enough. You are asked to reach out for help and when you do you are made to feel inadequate and dumb and they use that against you instead of helping you.  It feels as if  I'm back in high school with their childish pranks and attitudes. In the short time I've been there, they are on their 6th administrative assistant but I see why they have such high turnaround. No one wants to work in an abusive environment.

Typical day at work was hostile. The management team are very unprofessional. Don’t know what they’re doing. But I believe I learned by working at Sturgeon Electric was that they do not care about you whatsoever. After six years of working with Sturgeon Electric they relieve me with a layoff five minutes before I was done for the day no compensation or severance package was given whatsoever. When they laid me off, they didn’t give me any paperwork or my check whatsoever. They did not explain to me anything about my 401(k) and what would happen with that or about insurance or anything. They just said bye.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They only good thing about this place is the pay 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Your coworkers, somehow this company manages to find the bottom of the barrel degenerates. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
If you like to work among retired drug dealers that tell you about how much better they are than you and men that brag about how they are unfaithful to their spouses and are able to get away with it and then this is the place for you!

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day would consist of wishing for a quick and painful death so I didn’t have to go back the next day.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Project engineer 15 salaries reported	$75,400 per year
Construction project manager 18 salaries reported	$101,667 per year
Administrative assistant 11 salaries reported	$49,523 per year
Project manager 7 salaries reported	$96,886 per year
Safety specialist 4 salaries reported	$92,485 per year

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