Kiewit Corporation Reviews

Pros

Ability to communicate with Upper Management

Cons

Work expectations and work load

Advice to Senior Management

Stop pilling on work

Pros

Great safety program
Friendly people to work with and talk to
Good benefits program

Cons

At times, your work is pointless.
Severe lack of communication
Management is unorganized
Engineers are given a bad name
turn over rate is high

Advice to Senior Management

Communicated effectively to all your workers and give them time to do things.

Pros

Good pay
Decent time off
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Cons

Too many bosses.
None of the bosses are on the same page.
Horrible communication from management to management from management to employees.
Management has no idea what they are doing.....Could y'all send down some help
They tell you to work safe but expect you to do whatever you have to do to get the job done.
They are not concerned about you as a person...you're a number
They changed our vacation/sick leave with only a few days left in the year so the employees had no time to react......after telling us all year not to use our sick time or risk being fired they took it all from us at the end of the year....THIEVES!
Oh.....and HR never has any idea about anything

Advice to Senior Management

Could y'all send down some help please? Unless this is just the "kiewit way" .....if that's the case then I'm out!

Pros

Large projects
Decent pay right out of college (better than 90% of my CE classmates)
Travel opportunities
Passionate co workers
Time flies
Learn more facets of the industry faster and more thorough than anywhere else

Cons

Overworked, don't even think about your hourly pay you'll cry
Cliques
The Kiewit culture is a little overwhelming at first but you get brainwashed quickly

Advice to Senior Management

So far good job, managers I've seen are willing to put in the time with you and mostly have valuable advice

Pros

- Good pay
- Interesting jobs
- Always busy
- Lots of opportunity
- Great people

Cons

- Very hard work
- Long hours
- Disorganized at times
- No work-life balance

Advice to Senior Management

We need a better work-life balance. There is a high turnover rate because of people not acheiving this balance. I am very happy with the communication between the employees and upper management and they have always been approachable for issues that may come up.

Pros

- Great pay and benefits
- Great co-workers
- Challenging
- Fast paced
- Rewarding

Cons

- To many bosses: At the job site I worked at there were 3 business managers in charge of 3 hourly employees. It seemed a little much to have to check with 3 different people to get a problem handled.
- Defined by education- Unless you had a college degree there was no room to advance. It didn't matter how well you preformed your job or how much responsibility you took on.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't automatically put Business Managers in the position to be bosses when they are straight out of college. Most of them have very little on the job experience and end up having to be trained by the hourly employees.
Based promotions and job titles on over all experience and performance, not just education.

Pros

Many standards to develop their projects quick and cheaply.

Cons

There were too many bosses.

Pros

Great opportunities if you can put up with all the political bullsh*t
Plenty of districs to choose from with a wide range of industries to work in

Cons

Long hours, working every weekend
Little pay compaired to other companies
The Golden Handcuffs- promises of stock and advancement all you need is a little more time
"it is what it is"
Thats just the way we do things at Kiewit....

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up and realize you have to take care of your employees. You cant work them to the bone on empty promises and a chance to get stock. If you look at the structure, the only people working here are "the good o'le boys and recent graduates. There is a reason why there is little to no middle management.

Pros

Very successful hard working company.

Cons

control is tightly held by the good ol boys. Not from a "boys" perspective, but if you don't come in as a engineer and work on construction projects your contribution and control will be limited.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to evalve into a company that appreciates talents and not just those that are gained and deomonstrated in the field.

Pros

There is the opportunity for growth, and if you stay for your whole carrer, you can make alot of money.

Cons

You work alot and do not have much of a life.

Advice to Senior Management

Dont micromanage so much, and treat people with more respect.