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VECA Electric & Technologies

What is the best part of working at the company?
Hybrid work, in office M&W and remote 3 days.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management. The overall tone of management is very condescending. You are dealing with career detailers who think very highly of themselves. They try to look for individuals with higher qualifications than necessary, who are perhaps searching for something temporary as an ego boost, then shift their attitudes a few days/weeks later. The work is very basic, you are basically dimensioning bent pipes (conduits) that are already modeled, non-stop,. They have a process for how to dimension these conduits that should take anyone at most 3-4 days to learn. Yet they try to complicate things and evade any underlying questions. You should go into this role knowing this. It is a very very boring elementary job that anyone with zero CAD knowledge or experience can do at 13 years old, and expect to be at that role for many years, and act confused (the more you appear to not learn this very simple job, the better you will fit in).

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They try to act cool, like they're doing something important, however, at the end of the day, you are working hourly, with a never ending stream of work that never changes like an assembler on an assembly line. If you are ok with this, and are willing to play their ego, you will really like the work atmosphere. If you have other options, definitely avoid. As a designer, you're ultimately not creating anything or learning anything worthwhile, that is just the nature of the job. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come in, open laptop, wait for things to load, get to dimensioning non-stop. They track everything and stand over your shoulder so be sure you're dimensioning fast. Act like you're doing very important work. Compliment your "leaders". Go home. Repeat.

Overall, if you're an union member in the electrical field it's probably great. If not, then expect to be treated like a second thought by a company that runs like a rental car agency where the executives are behind the desk and everyone else is a rental car. There are single-tract opportunities for promotion, a lack of organized communication, and a pretty dire lack of organizational systems thinking. The pay is competitive, the hours reasonable (in a hybrid 3-on, 2-remote, sense), and the workload can go from moderate to frenetic because of the aforementioned issues. No training to speak of, no industry-related professional development opportunities, and a dry atmosphere with people who don't know how computers work. Logging time is a nightmare that leaves most people not salaried nervous about how they're going to get a weeks worth of pay.

Having the opportunity to work for VECA was a honor. When I transitioned to VECA from my former employer I was working remotely.  I didn't have face to face interaction with VECA. However, whenever I had questions I could reach out and speak with someone. If I wasn't able to reach someone when I called, my calls were promptly returned.  Email questions were typically followed up within an hour, I never felt like I was left hanging.
VECA's benefits are like no other. My VECA sponsor/supervisor was great to work with and was extremely transparent, which I respected and enjoyed speaking with. Had my contract position not ended I would've loved to continue my career with VECA. It would be an honor and a privilege to return to VECA should there be another opportunity and our paths cross again. 

Very great place to work, but was poorly managed in there Arizona division office. Had it been ran better in AZ by the office manger then I probably wouldn't be unemployed right now. Office Manager had extremely bad anger issues with his temper to the point when he was mad he would throw things in his office and take it out on others whether it was work related or personal family issues. When he was out of the office the workplace ran like a well oiled machine.Hardest part of the job was dealing with him and learned better skills on operating a forklift and working with minimal supervision. The most enjoyable was how well the rest of us got along with each other

Really enjoyed my time working for this company, spent my whole apprenticeship there and ended up getting my jw card with them as well. They treat their employees really well, company Christmas party every year as well as other events. They are very flexible when it comes to needing time off. Wish I could have stayed with them honestly but times got slow. If I had even one gripe with them it would be that it’s a huge company so easy to get lost in the mix so along with that I did get pigeonholed a couple of times so therefore didn’t get as all around of an education in the field as I would’ve liked, for instance getting stuck on temp power for almost 2 years of my apprenticeship.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There wasn't a best part. The team was the least professional team I've ever seen. Profanity during team meeting and politically biased. It was a hostile work environment. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Everything was stressful. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
My comments don't reflect on the company as a whole, they only reflect on the team I was on. Everyone else I met there seemed genuine. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Keeping to myself in fear of retribution.

Extremely poor operations upper management and "good ol boy" club has run-off many quality managers over the past 3 years. Extremely wasteful customer construction practices. Exec Team personal expensive muscle cars paraded through the property, while hourly workers beg for minimal pay increases. Blindsiding layoffs of valuable managers, who don't fit their personality type.

Have worked here as an apprentice for almost five years. The company is decent but the job experience really changes depending on what foreman/gf you’re working under. Safety standards range from good to cowboy.  I’ve been given good opportunities to learn a lot, and have just about always worked 40 hours a week. But clear communication is really lacking, and expectations are often unclear, and the concept of work/life balance is looked down on. 

Early work day that starts at 6:30am every day, which I like. I would basically review what my objectives were from my emails and then create as many field drawings as possible for the field crew to get before the deadline.

Hired away from other company, promisedd all sorts of positions, never could get direction from management on what my job was or what I was supposed to do. Consistently told I was doing a great job only to let me go without warning. Mormon owners hold together as a clique all non mormons are outsiders. Old guard runs the show.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Project engineer 8 salaries reported	$28.88 per hour
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Detailer 6 salaries reported	$31.83 per hour
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