ECC Reviews

Current Employee – been working at ECC full-time

Pros – Personal & professional growth is encouraged
Work is challenging and rewarding
EXCELLENT benefits
Employees are truly valued - open communication is encouraged
Company is guided by core values & beliefs.

Cons – None that I can think of.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ECC as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Promotes Saftety and Industry Best Practices from Management to Technical Staff.

Cons – There are not cons to report.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue providing Technical Staff will tools to competently complete jobs.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ECC as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Competent Safety and Risk management group. Has client's goals as priority one.

Cons – There were no cons to report.

Advice to Senior Management – Good goal driven environment.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ECC full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – 1. Great Benefits - full medical paid for instance
2. Hardly ever fire people - job stability
3. Global work with Federal Construction (USACE, NAVFAC, DoD, DoS, AFCEE,etc)

Cons – 1. Pay is about average
2. Not a lot of professional development
3. Senior Management is fairly complacent

Advice to Senior Management – Try to develop and mentor your subordinates, as they are key to a successful team!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ECC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great Company with outstanding values

Cons – There are no cons here

Advice to Senior Management – Future

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ECC full-time for less than a year

Pros – ECC is an entrepreneurial enterprise, with a culturally diverse and far flung staff (four continents!). ECC is an agressive business, in a good way. Staff are encouraged to seek new markets or opportunities where the company can be successful. If it was a boxer, ECC would be "punching above its weight class" as it competes head to head with major firms that are several times larger, frequently multiple orders of magnitude (10X or 100X) larger, and will WIN on a consistent basis.

There is no "perfect" company, but ECC goes a long way towards acheiving that objective. ECC is serious about its employees' health, providing benefits that are unheard of elsewhere in the industry -- healthy snacks in offices, wellness incentives / competitions, and more.

As an employee owned company, ECC allows staff to participate in its financial success.

Depending on position, many ECC employees work from home and travel as need be to one of the offices or project sites.

Cons – Being entrepreneurial means taking risks to expand into a new market or sector. Sometimes that means taking lumps, hits to the bottom line. No risk, no reward.

Some staff can be overwhelmed with work load, but that occurs everywhere.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ECC

Pros – Typically I feel constantly challenged, yet comfortable in a supportive environment. I have never felt as though I am on an 'island', with no options available to me. The group tends to rise to face challenges but can also inject levity, into the workplace, when needed. Everyone I have encountered is passionate and well versed in the respective fields. Being an employee owned company, coupled with working for a company that has a well respected and positive presence in the world, acts to promote a beaming sense of pride.

Cons – As with many positions these days travel is often necessary. To that end, with a young family travel can be an unwanted intrusion into an already hectic life. But, an understanding partner as well as the thrill of the reunion, can lesson the sting from time away. I would also appreciate a more organized training schedule, especially during 'down times'. While there are numerous training events during the year, on varying topics, specific training targeted to 'down times', especially year end, I feel, would lessen the potential to become complacent.

Advice to Senior Management – The educated employee-owner is a successful employee-owner. What I mean by that is, encouragement to diversify one's knowledge base and move out of a given 'comfort zone', I feel, would keep the employee-owner stimulated and want to take on different challenges. I am sure that there an many ways this could be accomplished, one of which may involve 'shadowing' another employee-owner and perhaps taking specific classes towards this discilpine. This, coupled with a close examination of the current employee-owners, may reveal a hidden jem in an otherwise un-tapped environment.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ECC

Pros – ECC offers outstanding benefits that contribute to a balanced work/personal lifestyle. We use the latest technology and, as a department, strive to get better everyday. All the estimators are very knowledgable and helpful. The estimating manager has always got the backs of his employees and welcomes new ideas by everyone.

Cons – The location of the office, Marlborough, MA, is about 30 miles west of Boston. It seems most people live at least 45 minutes away; either in CT, RI or around MA. There is not a lot to do in Marlborough. Right now half of the company is on the 3rd floor and the other half on the 4th floor. This makes it difficult to get to know everyone, but we will be conjoining both offices shortly so that will make the situation much better.

Advice to Senior Management – Hold people more accountable. Coming from a big company I have seen employees hide in the shadows and avoid work. With the success and growth of ECC make sure people are doing what they were hired to do.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ECC

Pros – ECC offers amazing benefits and opportunities to utilize all skills. This is a company that almost always walks its talk. ECC has values and ethics worthy of pride.

I have had more opportunity to learn, grow, and be rewarded here than anywhere else I have ever worked. My skills and industry knowledge have become more varied and rich than would have been possible anywhere else.

ECC's commitment to the communities in which it works is the most wonderful and amazing things I have ever seen professionally. The "good works" that have been supported side-by-side with related or co-located project work are plentiful and are performed with a rich understanding of local needs.

This is a friendly and professional environment. My position offers wonderful flexibility.

Cons – Association with certain projects can result in rewards that aren't entirely deserved ~ there are one or two projects in this industry that would require total incompetence not to succeed financially yet folks assigned to them always get high praise and promotions. This is not unique to ECC. It's a problem of evaluating success with the "bottom line" without taking into account how a project was funded (this does not always correlate with how difficult a project is).

Advice to Senior Management – We are hurting for women in upper management - particularly outside of HR. This can affect assumptions that senior management makes regarding employee needs and situations. Women in executive positions should not all be within the same specialty.

Work-life balance is pretty good, but loyalty to the ECC family should not be lauded when it hurts one's actual family. Long-term, this is bad for morale.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ECC

Pros – Well known and respected within the industry for its ethical approach in performing as a United States Federal services provider.

Cons – Recent rapid growth is causing some strain on the company's existing project support systems, but these issues are being addressed.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue investing in creating a diversified workplace that will draw the best talent to our company and give ECC a better advantage.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend