welder

cnc machinist

laborer

maintenance mechanic

assembler

Trident Maritime Systems

Under new management!!! There are 4 “managers” (and a bunch of office personal overhead 12+ people) of the machine shop and only 3 workers. One being a supervisor that says “no phones” but plays on his phone all day and complains if you have a first article inspection for him.
Safety manager has an assistant. HR has an assistant. Yet they’ll low ball their employees coming in and don’t give raises to their current employees. 

They sub their work out because they have no one with the initiative and knowledge to get the work done in an acceptable amount of time. 

One person they have in charge of machining and programming will ask you to slow down so you can spread the workout and get overtime. Instead of running the shop at capacity, keeping the work in house while making overtime and making the company money.

The workers are really nice. And the few they have are willing to learn and do the work but unfortunately no one to teach them to be independent and no one to keep them loaded with work. Which is honestly probably their biggest asset they’re dropping the ball on, their people. 

 Management is the most incompetent group of individuals I’ve ever seen. The shop is in big trouble if they’re trying to be competitive and make money to stay in business.

If you’re desperate for a job, it’s a job. If you’re looking for something to last, well most people there don’t believe in their leaders and don’t see the shop surviving. 

Decent starter job or good job if you're a traveling subcontractor making $35+ with per diem. Not a long term career unless your are related to ceo or other upper management. Lots of favoritism throughout the company especially to family members that pick and choose hours or work from home. Not much appreciation for actual employees doing the jobs for the company to profit. Very little wages for the amount of responsibility put on employees, poor training, kind of just throw people into the job or title. Expect more then they give when it comes to work. But that's Probably due to the fact much of the upper management never worked in the field nor witnessed the actual work happening, so that causes confusion on why some tasks are taking longer then others. Little to no trust throughout the company. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Had opportunities for travel and to experience work tasks outside my main role.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Contracts are all mismanaged and the demands to conform to an over-cost, behind schedule plan is placed on the employees who have no control over how to correct the overruns. Just went through a major c-suite change and it was managed as poorly as their contracts.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Sink or swim. If the company wants you to work there, or is familiar with your specific skills set, you will have work. If they hired someone for a contractual requirement without understanding the skill sets they can bring, they won't utilize you.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Work in a mostly empty office, get sent to support contracts they didn't have enough heads to complete, defend why your work isn't complete by your previous ECD.

What is the best part of working at the company?
It is very little pay and very little opportunity for upward progress in the company. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
There is a lot of favoritism and pay disparity. And very incompetent supervisors. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Discrimination is rampant there’s a company man culture and anything done to displease supervisors even if they are wrong is held against you when you come up for evaluations.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Exhausting and frustrating every body is in every body’s way. It feels like a prison on those ships and they work you the same way.

Management is a joke! They don’t respect how hard you work, deserve a raise? They don’t give it to you! Management talks down on you and makes you feel replaceable! Management makes employees follow attendance policy on a point system but they don’t account for their own tardiness/absences they pay themselves out! Husband and wife works in the same office, wife gets paid more hours at home then the employees on the yard! They constantly keep changing their policies to fit their own needs! Every year they evaluate but nothing benefits an employee for their outstanding work! Favoritism is highly obvious! 

"Don't want the HQ folks looking at us down here" mentality.  The workers who aren't management were great, but there are always too many chefs in the one pot.  Quick to push down on the low man if things go awry, which it often does.  For all the communicating in the production meetings, that doesn't quite ever filter down to the frontlines well ever.  Various managers always trying to "one-up" the next one. 

"Don't hesitate to ask for help.", but when you actually really need support, it is no where to be found.  

Great place if you just want to be a mindless drone worker.  

Here at Trident you become a supervisor if you speak your knowledge. If you know how to talk your way to a managers head your are in but the real workers know that the supervisor was all talk cause when it comes to hands on. There's nothing there a helper can do the job better. If material and a job was given to a worker and just one group of people things would had been a lot better and things would get done. Instead moving people around and changing supervisors. Everything is confusing and material gets lost or misplaced.

I’ve met 50% of the crew that have come up the ranks starting as laborers from temp labor to now employed full time and developing their skills. Laborers that have worked to become supervisors. Fire watch labor that have have been nurtured and taught to be welders. Laborers that are now helpers, apprentices and welders. Trident Hawaii gives of their free time to develop skills in individuals who are willing and engaged to learning and building a career.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I'd have to say the experience 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Disorganization and two faced 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work is fine but the supervisor and safety people are judgemental and no reasonable reasoning 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come in work go home they lied to me told me I was going to be a welder but not once did they ever have me welding

What is the best part of working at the company?
Good wages and benefits. Management sucks!!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Most stressful part of working there was dealing with unrespectful management.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It’s like working under a microscope. You’re always being watched and scrutinized every minute.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Always looking over my shoulder to see who’s watching my every move.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Welder 15 salaries reported	$25.23 per hour
Cnc machinist 8 salaries reported	$28.38 per hour
Laborer 6 salaries reported	$21.00 per hour
Maintenance mechanic 4 salaries reported	$33.75 per hour
Assembler 10 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour

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