Caltex Australia Reviews

Pros

some great people doing great work
solid performers
relaxed atmosphere, informal but professional

Cons

risk averse
stuck in the mud treading water, union issues holding the place back
people do not realize their potential

Advice to Senior Management

trust your people, make some of the hard decisions and lead not manage create the space for your teams

Pros

Great people working hard to improve the way we do business. Able to influence the company more than a large multinational due to it being very independent of Chevron. Good pay and benefits.

Cons

There is a desperate need for:
- systems to support doing business with the lean resourcing
- planning organisational change/improvements rather than jumping in without the end in mind
- ho,ding people accountable to the plan

Advice to Senior Management

Put more time into communication of goals and strategy to the broader employees. This involves being visible outside of head office with things like team talks.

Pros

- Informal working environment.
- Efforts are recognised
- My team has great managers.
- Fairly flexible in how you manage your work, as long as you achieve your target

Cons

- company is risk adverse. they don't leverage their brand name enough.
- Still a fair amount of red tape to cut through.
- Not enough variety company wide to

Advice to Senior Management

Too much focus is being put on not rocking the boat. Its time to run this company with some energy and weed out the old horses with experience. We have to have the right balance of energy and experience.

Pros

Great support for for further tertiary study (eg. Masters)
Usually pretty easy to arrange Annual Leave when you want it.
Large number of opportunities for 'sideways' movemenet within the organisation.

Cons

Very hard to move up within the orginisation. Values external candidates more highly than internal candidates.
Not a leading or innovative company. Prefers to be a follower,so don't plan on having any radical or progressive ideas.
Preference for Senior Managers to be recruited on secondment from Chevron, so don't plan on rising to GM or CEO level.
HR processes are very poor, hard to get any response from them when applying for internal jobs.
Managers are more like Senior Analysts, they don't really manage or lead their teams.
Many staff (low levels and managers) appear to be just hanging around until they retire in a few years, which results in the them lacking any sense of urgency or desire to 'rock the boat', it's easier to just lie low under the radar for the next few years.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is too indecisive, takes too long to make decisions. Communication to front line workers is very poor.