Fluor Reviews

Pros

Off-Fridays
Competitive Compensation
Coworkers are very competent and work cohesively together
Local mangement is honest and respected
Good Corporate Culture

Cons

Relo of Corp to Dallas
Opportunities in SoCal dwindling
Multiple local campuses make it difficult to work on projects sometimes

Advice to Senior Management

Corporate and Business Group management needs to be more honest about the future of SoCal Operations. Right now the perception is what they say and wha they do are not in sync.

Pros

You get to work alongside great professionals as most are engineers. There are many opportunities to work in other countries and experience othet cultures.

Cons

Workload is project driven so everytime a project is cancelled or is finishing up you have to search for your next assignment.

Advice to Senior Management

Suggest that management require that all job openings be posted internally ASAP because in many cases they are posted at the last minute just to comply with policy but hiring decission has already been made.

Pros

Variety of projects available for individuals to pursue

Cons

Unstable constant ly laying off peoples

Advice to Senior Management

They need to think of their employees

Pros

Large company with a lot of opportunities

Cons

Too big a company that people gets ignore pretty easily.

Advice to Senior Management

Be flexible and offer cross training to employees

Pros

Good company, good growth, good pay.

Cons

Large company, can get overlooked.

Advice to Senior Management

Good company, good growth, good pay.

Pros

Jobs are large and last a long time. You can make a good living.
Salary and benefits above average for market in Oil & Gas.
International, with large uplifts was available till downturn and

Cons

Limited training for senior staff.
Age sensitive
Management ceiling for the non-political, promote non-challenging.
Outsourcing international: Indian and Philippine offices now 1-1 in productivity. Client awareness of cost per unit of work parity with non-US offices threatens high salary jobs in US offices and international sites.
Buy back employees when needed, excessively use LOA and then terminate if no high return projects won.

Advice to Senior Management

Realize there is a 20+ year void in the EPC and EPCM market labor pool, world wide - all the good kids went to IT and finance.
Elevate the knowledge and skills of mid/senior managers, to keep them current. Increase the productivity of US personnel. Keep trained staff employed till you can train some new talented professionals.
Protect and promote quality, not cronies. Challenge is good for a managers, keeps them on their toes. (all the way to the CEO)
Learn your clients, don't let staff assume they know better for the market. Find some common ground, especially in the FSU.
Change minimum profit philosophy to keep quality in house.
Take lump sum and GMP construction only work to improve the quality of construction management staff.
Remember the values that Bob Fluor held dear. Stop ignoring your heritage. It will work in today's risk adverse markets.

Pros

Excellent pay, benefits, training, information flow (both ways)

Cons

Project based, which translates into frequent layoffs.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to convert some of that impressive Backlog into jobs!!

Pros

Fluor compensates their employees very well. They have an excellent online knowledge base community. Once you've established yourself as an asset they take care of you.

Cons

Fluor is a very difficult company to get your foot in the door with. The comment heard most from Fluor veterans is, if you want a promotion you must quit and work for someone else and then come back and hire in at the level you want.

Advice to Senior Management

Regain control of the Fluor Government Group. How can management as educated and intelligent as those running Fluor allow Ex-KBR management and personnel take over a complete organization and ruin it in the same manner they did KBR. Everyone Fluor has hired in Senior Management to run the Government Group were responsible for ruining KBR's reputation to include Bruce Stanski (New Fluor Government Group President). Did you really not realize what you were doing or was the temptation of LOGCAP $$$ that great?

Pros

- Nice staff here
- The office location is beautiful
- Schedule is very flexible ( Gym, Cafeteria etc)
- Being an Engineering/Construction company its a whole new experience

Cons

- None so far for me.

Advice to Senior Management

No advice

Pros

Competitive benefits, flexible time and they probably have the most talented people in the industry.

Cons

Limited career growth and opportunities for some.