senior analyst

substation technician

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senior technician

senior systems analyst

Tri-State Generation & Transmission

Management; somewhat inbred and has entered into a death spiral.  Find a company better positioned to survive the changes coming.   Mostly nice people.  But, a job is a job.  I wouldn't be afraid to work there but keep your head down, keep your conversations superficial and just smile. The walls have ears, there.  Many of the people who work there are great, intelligent people. Many aren't.  Figure out who they are then enjoy your job.  Overly political.   Many of the managers are nice people but get their positions because other more qualified people want nothing to do with being managers there.  Therefore, less than desirable people apply for management positions or others are talked into it because nobody else wants the b.s. attached to being a manager.  This is for many levels of management.  The buddy system is alive and well, too.  If you're choosing to work there, just be aware of that.  There are many very good people at most levels.  The company just needs to change its strategies.  I'm writing in general terms without being too specific in order to keep my identity anonymous.  Corporate retaliation is not unheard of at Tri-State.

A typical day begins with defending your team and their work with facts and actuals and trying to get work for the future.  Since current management has conducted 5 blindside dismissals recently, show little desire to set expectations and encourage overlapping responsibilities an unhealthy competition for work has developed leaving workers scrambling to "look good".  The culture has become toxic with an us versus them mentality between departments.  The hardest part of the job today is understanding what is expected from VP leadership.  The most enjoyable part is working with the customers (Members of the Coop)

This past year they reduced benefits, held back raises for certain employees (but not all employees) pushed employees to cut back and save money while creating a new Senior VP position, creating a VP level and promoted some Senior Managers to VPs, then subsequently promoted some managers to Senior Managers.  The promotions were not based on those who have made sacrifices or streamlined processes to save money.  

They base salaries are decent, they are not the greatest, but they're better than some! They had a wonderful pension and retirement plan for their employees, but they have recently done away with it. Along with a lot of their other good benefits.  Their reasoning is to be able to save the co-op members who purchase energy from Tri-State millions of dollars. The way they have done this is by taking away compensation from their employees, the hard working employees that make Tri-States balance sheet very attractive. For example, they took away yearly salary raises at the end of 2020 and also did away with their pension plan.  Yet, they find plenty of money to hire more VP's with large salaries; so the rest of us can suffer. Their HR department violates all of their employee conduct standards as well, and they just simply do not care for their employees the way they use to.

I lead complex, multi-million dollar sourcing projects that proceed smoothly, maintain schedules, meet deadlines, and achieve specified goals. 

I start by listening and building a procurement strategy. Then I develop a comprehensive project plan only after I am certain we have properly scoped the work, clearly defined our goals and expectations, and established clear communications channels. 

The best part of my job is building trust and developing relationships with stakeholders, team members, and vendors who freely communicate with me. They feel safe offering fresh ideas to complex situations and issues, knowing I will give their ideas, concerns, and perspectives careful consideration. 

Having the big perspective enables me to think critically and creatively to transform strategic ideas into operational efficiencies and cost reductions, find new uses for excess inventory, minimize requisition backlogs, and reduce purchase requisition cycle times.

A typical day at work starts with feeling unappreciated and told to cut spending, when you do find ways to save your VP/SVPs spend it somewhere else and then pressure you to cut more.  I have learned it is best to keep your head down and your mouth shut, nobody here wants to hear your ideas unless it promotes them.  The management has become cut throat spending more time beating employees and other departments down trying to make themselves look good.  The work environment has gotten toxic and doesn't look to improve until anytime soon.  The hardest part of the job is knowing what is expected each day.  The most enjoyable part is when you energize a project and the Members come out to say thank you.

•	Responsible for assisting with the maintenance of the corporate Records Center, including processing and verifying data in the corporate Records system.
•	Providing imaging, indexing and record archiving services to internal clients.
•	Coordinates with and monitors outside vendor for offsite Records storage.
•	Utilizes imaging hardware and software for hardcopy conversion to digital media and ensure the accuracy of converted media.  
•	Proficient with the following software applications: Kofax Capture, Retention Policy Services Administrator (RPSA), Documentum and MS Office.

Tri-State as a whole is great place to work.  I only decided to explore my options after a new manager was placed over our department. After trying to work with this person it was realized that micro-managing was his one and only skill set.  Prior to this manager life was bliss. I would have stayed forever if I still had the manger before that had a true value for people, our experience and our skills that we brought to the table.  But the good news for those looking at Tri-State is that the manager that valued us is still there as well as many other good managers and counterparts.  Good luck.

A typical day at work, I operate an 834H coal pusher to feed coal to supply coal to a power plant which produces electricity to the grid system. I also operate a 980K loader to load trucks to haul the ash to the landfill. I operate a D6 dozer to maintain the landfill. I enjoy working with the best group of guys around and this is one of the best jobs I have ever had in my life.   I also filled in as relief supervisor for ten employees. I also was in charge of scaffold crews during outages. I gave fall protection training classes to all our one hundred fifty  employees.

My experience at Tri-State has been great. The compensation and benefits are wonderful. My manager does everything he can to make my days run as smoothly as possible.

My only complaint is the difficulty we have with scheduling consistently due to having such a large workforce and covering 4 states. When I’m busy, I’m extremely busy for weeks at a time and when it’s slow, it’s extremely slow for weeks at a time.

I truly enjoyed this company.  I supported the Manager of System Planning and 8 System Planning Engineers.  Every day was filled with responsibilities and new opportunities.  My co-workers were fun to work with, and became to be very comfortable with my support and processes.  The hardest part of the job was when I had to make a decision to leave due to my mother being terminally ill and between her doctors, hospitalization, etc. and juggling my commitment to my job.  This company was a place that I looked forward to going to every day.  Taught me variety and appreciated my skills and experience.

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