INEOS Reviews

Pros

great exposure to chemical engineering

Cons

A bit mundane in the work

Advice to Senior Management

Need more projects

Pros

9/80 work schedules
Competitive salaries and bonuses

Cons

Lack of Diversity
No room to disagree
No diversity of thought

Advice to Senior Management

Try hiring professionals to do the job and then LISTEN to them!

Pros

There are not many pros to working for this company, except that it is a stable job, and they paychecks show up twice a month.

Cons

There is no attempt at career development, no opportunity for advancement, and no interest in paying competitive wages.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should seriously think about the knowledge and skill set they have in their 10-15 year employees. This is the group that is vastly underpaid, and will begin leaving in droves when the job market improves.

Pros

Pay is reasonable benefits are good. The equity scheme is a real benefit that one day should pay off with great rewards.

Cons

Flat organization and rigid business organization along product lines makes growth and advancement a real challenge. It is almost impossible to change business due to the equity scheme.

Advice to Senior Management

This continual crisis mode is getting old

Pros

Leadership focused on making a long term healthy business, compensation was better than average based on job titles, opportunities to grow professionally and learn more aspects of the business

Cons

No frills organization, limited resources means that you have to do several different jobs with little support (also part of the pro's), limited product portfolio at the moment

Advice to Senior Management

could use a more effective sales force, broaden the product portfolio, more effective commercialization of new products

Pros

responsibilities and openess to a job, good salary and nice people as all come from large players. there is a lot of cooperation between the people due to the model of operation. employee have a big saying and lmanagement is close to floor

Cons

hard work cost focussed with no focuss on innovation or r&d. all different groups are working independently and no synergies between the different factories

Advice to Senior Management

Be closer to the people

Pros

Close to home. Funds for projects usually available if return justified. Flexible working hours. Direct line managers are mostly reasonable people with a few exceptions who are w*nk*rs. Holidays OK.

Cons

Employees treated as a liability. Employee terms and conditions continually eroded to reduce fixed costs. Recruitment on hold. Senior management seem to be incompetent. That might be a bit strong as they are powerless to implement any changes without permission from Ineos group who seem to keep a tight rein on everything that goes on. All spend authority has been removed from engineers. Senior managers are required to approve all spend. This just makes getting anything done a real pain. The level of beurocracy is stifling and Engineers always seem to be at the end of the chain of delegation. Simply ordering a replacement piece of kit and getting someone on site to fit/repair it is a major task with reams of paperwork, dozens of signatures required, procurement obstacles to overcome, inductions to be organized. Nothing happens easily.

Advice to Senior Management

Think more about looking after the experienced people who are still here and haven't already left. We are not mercenary idiots. Most of us are passionate about our jobs and want the company to succeed.

Pros

Salary and conditions better than most other companies but not as good as Basf or Dow. Needs to work on its image to the outside world. Things are changing...some for the worse but most for the better. Internal communications could be better as could external image. This is Britain's biggest private company but you would hardly know that. The only time the company is in the news is when the owner is in the FT rich list or a strike at Grangemouth....The people are great and you do get treated well on the whole. Just would like to know where the company is headed in the longer term?!

Cons

None...if there were I would have left !

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate more