journeyperson electrician

service technician

senior service technician

lineperson

security specialist

TRI-M GROUP

I learned everything I possibly could about the trade and enjoyed every minute of it. I worked with a group of people close in age that liked to have fun while doing sometimes grueling tasks. Management can be a little delusional and full of it, but they rarely show up in the field. Hard to stay motivated after spending hours stuck in highway traffic each week and not getting compensated for it. Easy to advance if you show initiative and a desire to grow.

Day to day your job is not consistent. Sometimes you will sit and wait for hours doing nothing. I'm not sure about others but I don't enjoy going to work with no work to do. If you work in another state and don't own a home, kiss your tax return goodbye you will pay more out and never see a dollar back and the cfo will just dodge you again and again because they know there is a better way to do their taxes for their employees. Safety is a joke, they preach it but outside of the office no one follows it until someone gets hurt and no one ever knows before it. The company has terrible customer service, all of the customers complain about the simplest things any company should know to do.

great atmosphere just not enough work for contractors. had all materials and the project manager was a hands on kind of man.the leads on the jobs were knowledgeable and committed to excellent. the hardest part was when working with people less knowledgeable and a lot of mistakes meant more work for the people who had to fix them. example hanging jhooks and not hitting a stud meant when pulling cable the jhook was coming of the wall and possibly hitting someone in the face. and when you more experienced then the rest you end up doing more work for the same pay as the rest . but overall the hire ups knew it.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Safety is there main focus, always.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Apprentices and Temps are there work force, temps make more than there workers. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Gossipy and clicky, not professional on the job sites.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Looking for tools that were stolen from my tool bag.

It used to be a good place to works, but recently it gone down hill. It’s a nice place for a 15/hr start but the rises at best are only .45 a year. You’ll find yourself constantly drained, higher ups don’t really seem to know or care about Prefab. And Prefab itself is said to be part of the tri-m team but are treated like they’re not even part of the company. Field guys tend to dislike or distrust them. 

A few years back, Aerotek staffing sent me to work for Tri-M on a temp to perm basis. I was let go from the first assignment after only one day. A few days later. I was sent to another work site and was let go after only two weeks. Their foremen assigned to jobs are not easy to work with and do not care about anyone who works on their worksite. If you want to feel appreciated  at work, stay away from Tri-M. 

Great company to start as a low wage paid apprentice being trained by unlicensed teachers at the TRI-M University. When you are a licensed Engineer with a real degree from a real University then I would skip this company. Unless you like to play in a sandbox like the Rugrats, throwing sand in the air and see which direction it will go. Low quality of design, poor choice of equipment, low quality of installation and poor service. Just to many managers on the same bridge.

When I interviewed I was told that sites I was scheduled to work on wouldn't be farther than 30 min from home. But was put on sites 1-2.5 hrs. away. There is no set job site that you stay on, your schedule is subject to change weekly. You may be 10 mins away or you could be up to 3 hrs. away, depending on where your needed. I had to attend a 2 day orientation, witch was a 2hr drive for me.

The apprenticeship program is good and it is good for people to learn a new skill.  I was disheartened to learn that the company tries to keep their Journeymen electricians on a low pay scale.   Unfortunately you could do 100 things right and not get noticed for anything.  If a task does not go perfect, they will use it against you to keep your pay scale low.

Lack of genuine care from managment, lack of manpower when needed, if you raise issues with management seemingly no care is given or blame is shifted to you, low pay for the work, DRAMA from office workers.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Journeyperson electrician 8 salaries reported	$28.50 per hour
Service technician 4 salaries reported	$43.63 per hour
Senior service technician 2 salaries reported	$46.50 per hour
Lineperson 6 salaries reported	$47.83 per hour
Security specialist 9 salaries reported	$37.56 per hour

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