What is the company culture like at Blattner Company?

Great benefits, good work culture

Long hours, remote locations and early mornings

Awesome culture and great benefits

Outdated software and inconsistent procedures

Great people, experience and culture

Not that i can think of

great culture, great people to be surrounded by

not much, people are awesome which is good

great work culture, great benefits

working outside, work hours are 60 plus

Good culture Per diem Consistent schedule

Some bad foremen/superintendents That’s all

Paid travel, time off for holidays, nice company trucks, decent yearly bonus

It’s about who you know, not what you know. Company went from private to public and the culture died. They struggle to promote from within and they pay their internal employees less than external hires for the same role.

Company truck and gas card, good health insurance, 401k, and perks.

Read if you plan on joining Blattner to understand what it consist of and what your in for. Especially people of color. - 80-90% of the work that a field engineer does can literally be done from your house. You’re constantly stuck in the office. You’re hardly in the field. When I got to my site my superintendent didn’t have a clue of how to do the paperwork side of the trade. I had to start from scratch. I had no templates to work with, didn’t know any of the terminology, received no help from my managers nor my coworkers, and got stuck in the office about 95% of the time. - HEAVY workload. Expect a minimum of 6 days a week 12hr days. Superintendents have insane favoritism and pull the rank card on you all the time. I didn’t get a day off for 21 days. They had to give me a day off bc of legal reasons. To cover their behinds pretty much. Starting pay for a field engineer is 70-80k. 12hr days 6 days a week is 3600 hours a year. Excluding the 2 weeks of paid vacation. Taking the median of the range, 75k/3600hr a year that’s equivalent to 20 bucks and hour. To have no work life balance, drive 2 hours a day to get to and from site, not have your friends or family around, not being able to plan vacations bc they can strip it from you at any time for any reason, dealing with entitled corporate “co-workers”, not being able to go to the movies or go to a concert bc your in the middle of nowhere, and have horrible coworkers and no guidance or leadership? If I have to deal with that I’d rather it be at a company in a city where I can have a life and be close to friends and family. - Upper Management doesn’t know what they’re doing. They are putting 25yr old egotistical males in management positions that have literally no clue what they’re doing. This is coming from a 25yr old woman. I received No guidance and got constantly reprimand even though they never took the time to train me. - Insane favoritism. It’s not what you know it’s literally who you know. So many people are continuously overlooked for promotions because they give it to their friends or partners. - Quanta buyout was a mistake. Perks and benefits keep getting slashed. You really are just a number now. - ‘LIFT’ is a joke. When I started it was 2 weeks of literally free pay and you get taught nothing about your position. But field management thinks you got trained during LIFT so they are upset when you get there and don’t know what’s going on. It’s a waste of money. And it creates a false image in the field management eyes. - When you get to a small town people hate you/Blattner. Locals hate Blattner. When you arrive somewhere be prepared to get your rent quadrupled and get service refused or horrible customer service because of the company stigma. - Prejudice. Blattner recruits mainly from Minnesota and Wisconsin. A predominantly white are. These folks probably never had to work a day in their life with a POC. There are hardly any POC in upper management levels especially women of color. I worked at a site where people of color were constantly being left out of team building events or management would never talk to us. The field crews are predominantly Hispanic or POC yet the field management is still ignorant when it comes to communication. They use the same tactic every time. They would repeat what they said to the field employee that doesn’t speak English over and over again getting louder each time. As if we don’t live in a modern world where google translate exist. Pure ignorance and arrogance. - Per Diem is a joke. 120 a day? To cover housing and food? Everywhere Blattner goes the rent nearly quadruples majority of the time. With inflation 55 bucks to cover food is a joke. Groceries are 200 bucks a week minimum. - Company truck. Some of the trucks are nice. But they give us a truck that has no tint. Working in 115 degree weather having no tint is horrendous. The speed limiter is a joke sometimes you cause traffic bc the truck will pick up the wrong speed and you gets points added to your account. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been cursed out and had the finger given to me or stuff thrown at the company truck because I was causing traffic. - Traveling Isn’t as fun as it seems. They send you to a small town that is in the middle of no where where the nearest housing available is an hour away. Plus you’re constant having to run your credit because they will send you to random places almost every 2 months sometimes. They make you pay the lease break and sometimes it’s nearly 6k. Not everyone can afford to drop 6k on a lease break just to drop another 6k for houses in another state. Then you have to wait weeks to get your reimbursement. Or if you’re lucky like me you won’t get reimbursed $3500. A multibillion dollar company wouldn’t repay me 3500. You can’t really drive to touristy cities that are more than a 2 hour drive FROM THE SITE. You have to get permission first. Most of the time it’s denied. - Rotations are a joke. They can deny it for no reason or make you switch with one of managements besties without telling you. Now you have to wait 6wks minimum to get another rotation. And most of the time everyone is too tired to do anything on their rotation. All you want is a break from a horrible job site and horrible coworkers. No one will help you out. The amount of times my co workers told me “I figured it out so can you” instead of steering me in the right direction is mind boggling. They want to continue to toxic work environments. I have so many rude and passive aggressive emails and texts. Ive had to save them all because I would get in trouble for not doing something right. When I was never taught how to do it in the first place. - Teams make or break a job site. If blattner kept teams that worked well together and got along together they would finish so many project on time or maybe sometimes ahead of time and under budget. But Blattner hires and promotes people with control issues and that are self-absorbed. They don’t know how to communicate or just flat out don’t want too. The field management doesn’t know how to be a leader. They just know how to sit down and demand things. Without they themselves knowing how to do the work they are demanding to get done. - Blattner puts people into management positions of work that they have never done or even seen! They should require Blattner field management to work a week out in the field the learn some humility and understanding of what it means to do actual hard work. Most of Blattner field management has never had to work a labor intensive job in their life, which then allows them to perceive themselves as better than the field employees. I’ve never seen so many entitled managers in my life. I’ve worked with managers that had no understanding of human decency. I’m a woman of color and had never been treated so poorly by a company and its employees. - Never expect any actual help from corporate. They think they’re above you and that you report to them instead of thinking as themselves as our coworkers which is what the majority of them are. - The majority of people that were actually great and wonderful coworkers had to get on antidepressants because of how horrible this company and its employees are. Including myself. This company will put you in a dark spot. - The only people that I never really heard a complain about the company or its employees are people that aren’t people of color. Take that as you please. There will be people that disagree with this but there is a reason Blattner rating is a 3.5 on here. Majority of the reviews are negative. When you google Blattner ex employees even go and leave company reviews on there. THAT SHOULD BE A BIG WARNING SIGN. I recommend to stay away. I’m ashamed to have Blattner on my resume.

-Pay -Benefits -Supportive in training

-Lack of transparency -Revolving door of employees with no experience and clear expectations established with them.

pay,pto,vacation time,good hours,good environment and good communication between supes and crews

some long days. sometimes youll work 13 days on 1 day off