staff engineer

mechanic

field engineer

heavy equipment mechanic

engineer

Weeks Marine

Former employee of the bucket dredge division (Mechanical Division). I have nothing to complain about, hands down best company I've ever worked for. 

My Captains and my Operator were extremely good at what they did and always pushed me in the best ways to become better. Even upper management were very good at what they did and truly listened to the people on the ground about what we needed and what we could do to improve. 

Work culture was great, very diverse group of people all living and working together honestly like a family. Don't get me wrong it wasn't like being in a "happy everyone loves each other like long lost relatives reuniting" fantasy land, we bickered at times. But out of the hundreds of people I've met and interacted with there was only one person  I didn't enjoy being around. So as far as a great work culture and environment goes this company by far excels over any job I've had before, everyone I've worked with, besides the one person I didn't enjoy, will always have a spot at my table.

Pay was very fair, even before the Kiewit merger, work hard and you will quickly receive raises and promotions. The company truly wanted you to improve and work your way up the ranks. I've never worked with a company before that actually wanted it's employees to be the ones being promoted and elevated in house instead of outsourcing until working with Weeks/Kiewit. 

As far as Work/life Balance I truly can't complain 14 on 7 off. Never forced me to ride over, and if I wanted to work over for some extra cash and they could allow it they did. Don't come out expecting to treat it like a regular job on land, while you're on shift you are expected to work, and don't be that guy that slacks and makes your brothers have to pick up your duties along with their own.

The hardest part about this job was being away from my wife and son. So if you can not handle being away from your friends, family, or pets then this is not the career for you.

The most enjoyable part about this job besides doing awesome things like building islands or recovering sunken vessels/infrastructure (I've personally never done recovery projects, but the fact we do that is freaking cool man.) is getting to meet some of the weirdest, goofiest, and most incredibly talented people I've ever met. You get to travel and see some of the most beautiful sights and work in some of the coolest environments, and you get to make a difference. I'll be able to take my son out fishing someday when he's older and point out islands we built little by little every day and get to tell him that his daddy helped build that.

To conclude this, if you want a career that will give you some of the best friendships, memories, and the ability to support yourself and or a family then this is the place for you.

They attempt to have a rotational educational program to help new employees learn about the different aspects of the company over the first 3 years of employment, but this does not typically work out as plan. No immediate new hire training, new hires end up getting sent to a job site without even the knowledge of how to submit time sheets. 

Everyone's job experience/ tasks differ from one person to the other doesn't matter if you have the same title, the experience each one will have after 3-5 years will be vastly different.

Your direct management will change on a job- to- job basis making it really hard to move up. Upper management is tasked with trying to keep up with all the field personnel via their direct manager, as you can image this can slip through the cracks.

Whether or not you will be in a steady area or move all around is a up in the air. Their open-door policy allows you to ATTEMPT to request your demands. I have been lucky where I have been listened to, but I know several others who have not been as lucky. And if you are one of those unlucky soldiers, you will have minimal notice on your next assignment location (probably 1 week on average, but I have seen 1 day notice and 1 month notice as well)

I think this is a good starting company, you learn a lot, but you will never be able to become a master at anything, your job description should be "anything we need". It can be anything from administration - project management. i.e. contract writing, subcontract paying, tool purchasing, work planning, hiring, estimating, engineering, equipment mobilizations, quality control, running out for an emergency item, quantity reporting, scheduling, claims, creating forms & tracking techniques, etc.

We literally went against all odds: a project that was thought impossible to complete due to the complexity of it, but we pulled it off.
I began at the  constuction site, at the beginning of the proyect. We had to start from the scratch, a filing system based on the customer's rquirements and spec guidelines. We established the work site office, setting up a trailer, files and meeting areas. We then began creating documentation per those requirements, established formats and codification of payroll as determined by the specs. it was a lot of work, every day, a lot of data collection and processing. 

Working at a construction site is always a challenge: lots of testosterone and a-type personalities colliding, but we always managed to abide by the company guidelines of behavior. We never had much more than an agreement to disagree. Being one of the very few females in site, the men were always very respectful around and i always felt safe, respected and protected by my peers.

The hardest part was to say good bye to the team.

Very supportive of training and certifications but not supportive of career advancement after receiving those certs. Decent company overall, dependent on your manager. Short lunch times and be prepared to work through them often if you’re in the shipyard.  Very big on planning the same stuff over and over again. Very redundant meetings that are long and drawn out and hard to follow.  Decent starting pay but you will not grow very much after that. Very little room for advancement and managers lack the guidance and development plans for their employees. Good benefits, 401k, and profit sharing

I would not recommend working here. Most of the time it seems to be a dictatorship. Do what I tell you to do. Often when doing as told and problems arise you get thrown under the bus by the ones that fell the need to dictate. 
Do not expect to get any kind of guidance from the office, they are to busy to respond to you. They are so focused on trying to find someone to blame for everything that goes wrong, I can say if things go south and they will you will be fine if just take the chewing and the finger pointing. It will be your fault, period. The Career Development Manager can not and will not help you in any way to develop your career, has no clue how too. I can go on and on but I think you get the picture.

If you traveling world wide than this is the place for you. There are days where you hate and some days where you love it. It was the best job I ever had because you get to meet a lot new people once you go to different project but not only that you get $40 a day for food. They pay for your housing and they sometimes give you free stuff. weeks marine is a place to go if you feel like you got the skills and needs for it. They will give you promotion after 6 months I say because they want to see how hard you work and how long you stayed this job is a six figure job. 

the job was 3 weeks aboard ship 12 hour shift the day consisted of dredging a specified area to specified depth using ships equipment and then taking the material and pumping it shore where the guys on shore distribute on the beach to build it up. the workplace was pretty cool we had access to gym on on-board the ship we had access to the internet. we had 3 hot meals a day the hardest part i think was being away from family on special days and events. i enjoyed learning how to operate the equipment it was fun to see how the process worked

Started with the company out of college. Only used my AB license and never my Mate license. Started as a deckhand, then Deck engineer. Meanwhile still expected to make time between deck work and engine work to show motivation for the wheelhouse. They expect you to do the work of 2-3 people to advance. Learned a lot, they do a ton of different kinds of work, traveled all over the Atlantic. 12 hour watches is a really big plus, paid travel.  They will ask you to stay over every time if you say yes once. 28/14 is good to make money not to have a life at home. 

Poor schedule. More days working than off, if you're a salaried employee, they consider your days off as their days too. If they contact you on your days off, they expect you to drop what you're doing and communicate with them. Low pay, especially considering you're away from home more that you're at home. Absolutely no safety culture. Management is non existent. Very few licensed captains/chief engineers. Their only concern is production and management's annual bonus. I can't wait for a better opportunity and am searching for and applying for other jobs daily.

What is the best part of working at the company?
On time relief on time pay and grub benifits

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Never knowing what’s next. No prior planning nepotism is rampant and some amount of racism 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic no culture no communication just do yur hitch and get out

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Basic seamanship cooking cleaning dredge operation maintenance of dredge n tug drills and whatever they fancy u doing that day like moving scows etc

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