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Woodard & Curran

I work in Portland, Maine office, in the finance department, and I love my work and my teammates. It's been two years since I've started working here, and recently we started looking for a new employee, and that's how I came on Indeed to see our job posting. I also wondered over to the company reviews section, and to my surprise I saw some negative reviews from our other offices. 

I guess I can only talk about Portland finance office... I work with very intelligent, knowledgeable and experienced people, who are professional and who respect each other. 

The company is in the environmental engineering industry, which means they work hard to solve the problems of the environment, and the conservancy and availability of fresh water. The organization as a whole has very good values, and they promote diversity and sustainability in everything they do. In addition to all the good values, I enjoy competitive pay, good benefits, plenty of sick time, vacation days, 8 holidays, and 2 volunteering days. Yes, the company promotes volunteering and community involvement.

I hope there are many others who can share my insight, and I hope this review can help someone.

This is a remote position and you feel like you are alone on an island. There’s is very little training and everyone is usually too busy to help you.  You will be asked to complete tasks with tight deadlines and with very little direction. Your growth doesn’t matter, only getting tasks completed. Projects are often modified to fit funding requirements which causes a lot of confusion. There is no organization to the files you need and most of them are not on the network but instead sitting on random people’s laptops so you have to search for hours to find stuff. Working with the clients is nice bc most of them are very sweet. The title is Fiscal Solutions Specialist but you are really just a secretary. All the gems of knowledge will not be shared with you and the information you need to complete tasks are spread out everywhere. Most of the engineers are okay to work with but some are very difficult to deal with - somewhat of a god complex. Your schedule is flexible as long as you get your work done but other than that, not really a great place to work. 

After working with 4 engineering consulting companies over the past 15 years, I found W&C a company of people with great expertise and drive to excel.  Days are busy and occasionally long but I get to routinely interact with great internal and external clients in various regions of the country and management rewards ability and production.  Opportunities to try new tasks are made available when it makes sense.

There are some growing pains, but I have experienced similar at firms very much larger and very much smaller.  My position also allows me to work with junior staff to provide opportunity to mentor, which is rewarding.

After a public debate our local contract was bought out with promises of better benefits and new younger employees to fill inefficiency in a decaying utility network. Over the course of the next year, a Facebook like group was promising meetings that never happened, and the same managers were kept in charge. My gross pay went down while benefits were changed quarterly to try and keep costs low as possible. Overtime became normalized at around thirty hours per week (total) while a whole shift was eliminated as we never received a fourth worker. The best part of the job was my personal boss. An intelligent and informed manager who was ready to take on the task of keeping the water on through many sleepless frozen nights. Sometimes the fun is in looking back at what you got through.

With over 15 years in the industry (with multiple consulting firms), I have found Woodard & Curran to be a great place to challenge myself and grow both personally and professionally.  In my opinion, the diverse workplace environment has provided me with an opportunity to foster long lasting relationships both inside and outside the company.  These relationships have given me the opportunity to expand my knowledge and expertise in environmental consulting over the years.  My experience has been that Woodard & Curran has provided me the opportunity to develop a well balance work/personal life.  Management has mentored me in a way that has helped guide me toward reaching both short term and long term goals.  Would recommend Woodard & Curran to others!

Leadership team is always available for assistance with any issues or to help with operations and maintenance.

Reasonable hours with a predictable schedule.

W&C really cares about safety. Every day there's a safety brief before starting on the duties for the day. There's also an annual safety bonus that grows each year.

Decent pay and a robust benefits package. Vacation days are calculated by experience in the field, not length of time with the company. Also has a tuition reimbursement program.

W&C will pay for coursework or additional technical training for the job. They also are committed to cross-training all employees to give them a leg up on other applicants if they ever decide to leave the company.

I really enjoyed the work I was doing at W&C.  However, I was not such a fan of my manager or the general vibe in the office which had a mob mentality.  If certain people took a disliking to you (ie the Office Manager), you could basically start counting your days working there.  My actual manager wasn't much better - very checked out, often not even clear on what was involved in the work I was doing, but simultaneously constantly belittling especially in meetings with the larger team.  Essentially, you are judged on how much "fun" you are.  If they don't think you're fun or you are an introvert who doesn't enjoy spending time with your office workers constantly, you won't last.  Honestly, there are many other places to work that are much, much better.

Given the size of the company, you have to be willing to engage to get the most out of the Woodard & Curran experience. There are multiple opportunities available to anyone that’s willing to seize them. If you choose not to be involved in the culture, chances are that your experience here will be less rewarding. On the other hand, if you do take charge of your own development, people at all levels are ready and willing to help you achieve your goals. Let’s face it, no company is perfect. But at Woodard & Curran, people do come first and management does a great job of trying to live up to the mission statement on a daily basis. I enjoy coming to work each day and would recommend Woodard & Curran to anyone in the industry.

I worked at a major airline as a contractor for their Hazardous Waste Facility. This job would have been great had we been paid what we were actually worth. Project managers give minimal pay so that they can monkey around with the site's finances. And instead of hiring the appropriate amount of people so that if an injury occurs they will be in compliance with their contract with their clients, they attempt to get by with the minimal staff. Rather than hire additional staff in the event of injury to any staff member. In my case I don't even believe they allowed us to take benefit of flying privileges for that Airline whereas management did.

Woodard & Curran provides opportunities in an industry with purpose and critical need. Clear mission, vision, and values. For motivated and proactive team members, the sky is the limit. There is autonomy for those who can perform at a high level and there are high expectations. We work hard and still try to have fun. Relationships are important, build them. Very accessible senior leadership who care about people and creating opportunities for others. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Engineer 4 salaries reported	$72,650 per year
Technical manager 3 salaries reported	$124,167 per year
Project engineer 3 salaries reported	$102,000 per year
Building inspector 2 salaries reported	$74,000 per year
Wastewater operator 2 salaries reported	$23.50 per hour

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