Baker Concrete Reviews

Pros

Project Engineers are knowledgeable and experienced
They try to find opportunity for you if you want to work in the office or field.
They have international opportunity
Great atmosphere to work at
Everyone is willing to help you out if you have questions

Cons

There is not set evaluation period

Advice to Senior Management

Keep interns and new hires involved in Project Engineer's daily tasks such as RFI's and Submittals

Pros

Get experience working for a top speciality contractor. Allows for opportunity to work on large projects throughout the entire nation.

Cons

Opportunity for growth is limited. Salaries are not are equally compensated as per role descriptions. Are not given sufficient feedback in regards to work performance.

Pros

Well, they have a pretty good reputation with clients in most parts of the country. And their size means that you may have the chance to work on some larger, more unique types of projects.

Cons

Overall, a company run in the mindset of the 1970's. And no, not all construction companies are naturally that way.
If you're the right gender, have the right background, and the right ethical/political/cultural sensibilities, you can do well. If you're not that and do well at blending into the background, you'll do OK. If you're not the right fit, and not a great wallflower, then regardless of your loyalty, energy, intelligence, abilities or work ethic, you probably won't be very satisfied.

Advice to Senior Management

What has worked fairly well for the past few decades is rotting away from the inside. You need to change your employee environment if you want to remain competitive in the future. The young bucks of today are NOT like the young bucks of yesteryear. And if you can't keep them and develop them into your new leadership, you will, in a word, fail. Size isn't everything boys.

Pros

It has it stuff together for their engineering deptarment. They really preplan well. Because they are a big national company they get more jobs because of their famaliarity with other contractors.

Cons

It is a big company that deals with unions. Unions are way to restrictive. Also sub contractors have difficulty dealing with some of the policies.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat people honestly will get you a lot better production out of people. Reward people that do well but if mistakes are made, support them.

Pros

Good compensation while working for a company that does complex concrete projects around the country.

Cons

The field staff was very old fashioned and set in their way. There was never any thinking about how to perform tasks more efficiently. It was this is the method that has worked for me for 20 years so let's keep doing it.

Advice to Senior Management

I understand it's the construction business and a lot of employees have a certain attitude about their experience and knowledge. Remember that it's not where you have been but where you are going. Also if you want to be the best at anything you have to lead by example.

Pros

We are a well-respected industry leader.
Our founder, Dan Baker, is still very involved and seems to sincerely care about the well-being of his employees.
We are the largest concrete contractor in the country and construct a vary wide range of project types. Some of those types, such as football stadiums, high-rises, LNG tanks, etc., can be very technically challenging, pride-inducing, and rewarding.

Cons

Few, and it would really depend on the individual as to what they were.
In some ways, the company maintains out-dated, rather than modern close-to-cutting-edge, practices.
I WOULD like to see our harrassment policy changed to go beyond what is strictly defined by the law as harrassment so as to define homosexuals as also being "protected" just like women, minorites, and religions are.
And no, I am not gay.

Advice to Senior Management

Not really sure on this one....