Ontario Power Generation Reviews in Toronto, ON Area

Pros

- high salary
- great management
- quick development for young engineers (if interested in Nuclear)
- good training and safety awareness
- flexible work hours and vacations
- nice people around

Cons

- some other groups don't work on the same level as your group
- sometimes personal growth depends on manager's initiatives

Advice to Senior Management

The training, leadership programs and culture is amazing. Some initiatives can be introduction of quarterly presentations by new engineers to improve communication and presentation skills.

Pros

Salary and benefits, plus work life balance

Cons

Restriction in ability to use ones own mind for problem solving but due to the work environment it made sense. The job was in a nuclear power plant.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the employees !

Pros

Relaxing and friendly environment with fairly well compesation.

Cons

Not a lot of challenge and advancement for young people. I found that I didnt learn a lot at the end of the four months long co-op term. One can push himself to learn in OPG but such is the nature of their business that there is not a lot of opportunity for cutting edge works and hence not a lot of new skills are acquired.

Advice to Senior Management

Create challenge for employees! Modernize the nuclear business.

Pros

Ontario Power Generation is a great place that offers a lot of mentoring and room for growth. Salaries are decent and the work environment is friendly.

Cons

A lot of politics like in many big companies. Many processess are slow.

Advice to Senior Management

Restructure management hirerachy to simply internal dynamics and overly slow company processes. Too much bureaucracy

Pros

Low Turn-Over, Good Pay, Great benefits, Flexible hours, no profit/loss stress.

Cons

Lack of motivation, carrier advancement is limited

Advice to Senior Management

Need for more means of motivation

Pros

-many things to learn,
excellent wages and benefits,
state of art technology to work with
very good work environment
job security is also good.
no stress howsoever

Cons

work becomes sometimes boring,
it can take longer to get things done
very slow to implement new things being a big organization.

Advice to Senior Management

hire new young talent.
welcome new suggestions by the employees,
give more opportunities for learning,
provide more incentives for the employess.

Pros

- Flextime
- Good salary
- Great city & building

Cons

- Lack of training
- Lack of people to speak to regarding problems

Advice to Senior Management

- Hire competent people and train them well so they are able to complete the work that is required

Pros

Is a great place to work if you value job security and good pay. it is unionized and that can be a big change for people from private sector. The office locations are very convienient because of tie into govt.

Cons

and furniture tend to have seen their best days decades AGO because focus is on good pay and benefits and not on creature comforts like in the private sector. All in all though somewhat relaxed atmosphere to work in.

Advice to Senior Management

bring in moe private sector talent to change ways of doing business and reduce huge cost overuns that are a standard way of doing business.

Pros

Reasonable pay and security. Line managers have reasonable flexibility to make work environment tolerable

Cons

Very Bureaucratic. Salaries varyi unreasonable between job functions. Managers not selected for vision

Advice to Senior Management

Give more than lip service to empowering employees

Pros

Good salary, good work hours and excellent benefits. Pretty good job security. Good training opportunities. Large company and therefore many advancement opportunities but there are also many competitors.

Cons

Very, very bureaucratic. Thousand of policies and procedures. Every time something bad happens, first thing management wants is to put another procedure in place to "prevent it from happening again". Management doesn't seem to realize that when there are too many rules, people can not possibly remember all of them so they become meaningless and not followed. Rules carved in stone. Very often decisions are based on political drivers (owned by provincial government) rather than good business sense. Instead of targeting a few "bad apples" who break rules, tend to install policies to "control" and thereby "punish" everyone.

Advice to Senior Management

Loosen up. Stop covering your asses. Make good business decisions rather than just do what the Premier wants.