Bruce Power Reviews

Pros

Was a positive and constructive environment.

Cons

Focus on problems that were ill-defined made some project work difficult.

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure that problems are well defined so that work has a better defined scope.

Pros

- Good Training
- Mentoring available, on request
- They don't expect co-ops to do a lot of work because they want them to learn more rather than perform more

Cons

- too many procedures slows down the work
- too many redundant activities and work gets off the plan easily, if not properly scheduled

Advice to Senior Management

- get students involved more in the daily mix ( i was lucky to get involved because i showed initiative)
- provide more training to students

Pros

-CEO Duncan Hawthorne is excellent
-Very strong focus on safety culture, important for the nuclear power industry
-Great pay, good benefits package (if full time)
-Best place to work in Bruce County, can be a job for life
-Early retirement with full pension (some people retire as early as age 50!)
-Contractors haven, lots of great opportunities there to work on big projects
-Bruce County area is gorgeous cottage country in the summer

Cons

-Location, Tiverton Ontario which is a three hour drive from Toronto while it's fantastic in the summer the winters there are brutal, especially the driving conditions, it's very common to land your car in a ditch
-Very political atmosphere
-Union culture is sometimes job protectionist
-If you're not from Bruce County it may a while for co-workers to warm up to you
-It takes a long time to get projects done, lots and lots of process and procedures, everything moves at a snails pace...however not all of this fault lies with the company, the nuclear industry regulations slow things down as well which is beyond Bruce Power's control
-Very slow hiring process and aging work force

Advice to Senior Management

Speed up your hiring process. You have a problem attracting some talent due to the location, expand your Toronto office, perhaps open a London Ontario location...allow people to telecommute (especially contractors)

Pros

-Pay scales are off the chart
- A hiring freeze in the late 90's leaves a huge gap in their workforce
- Aging workforce, I would have cake at least once a week for a retirement

Cons

-Bureaucracy
-Meetings on meetings
-Union rules "You can't move a chair into another room, thats not in your job responsibility"

Advice to Senior Management

-Try to make the meetings faster and more efficient (a lot of the time an email would have sufficed)
- The union rules are amusing, I would keep them just for the humour they bring