Belcan Employee Reviews about "benefit"

Cons

Executive Leadership is directionless at times, and doesn't communicate with its employees on a regular basis. Could use more regional teamwork- branches operate autonomously and most don't know what each other is working on. Privately held firm, so very little room for advancement/promotion.

Cons

Pay is low compared to the overall market and they generally cannot compete. Being a contractor, you have very little say in the goings-on of the business to which you are contracted. If you have a good attitude and have some good insight, sometimes your advice will be taken seriously, but overall, you're just a contractor who cannot produce any meaningful change within the organization you are contracted to; you do what the customer wants. Sometimes you can feel disconnected from the company, especially if you are working onsite with a customer every single day. As far as engineering is concerned, the experience distribution is bimodal; lots of new people and lots of really old, retired people. Your career advancement really only comes from non-technical roles if you decide to go that route (team lead, supervisory positions, etc.).

Cons

Lousy pay and benefits. Each person is merely a 'head' that is paid to charge the clock, so sometimes individual successes can go unrewarded/compensated Current upper management seems disconnected and uncaring for the general worker, and some of the customers themselves can grind on morale. The 'Butts in Seats' mentality runs wild here too since its a contracted company. Benefits are subpar and even working towards higher education was very poorly rewarded. During my time there, the company also cut several 'nice to have' commodities that you'd expect from a engineering source (free Coffee, smaller cubes, etc).

Cons

100% markup on what you make. Once I found out that corporate was charging twice my hourly rate to the customer I decided to look elsewhere for employment. Corporate sends out these initiatives claiming that they are people first but when you are essentially charging double what I make for my time you are obviously not putting your people first. Corporate is also really pushing for everybody to work at the new belcan facility which is off site from their main customer in Rockford. This is so they can charge more for the time each employee bills to the customer. The facility that they are attempting to get everybody to move into is very subpar. There are major AC and heating issues. I myself have never worked at the belcan location but from what I've heard HR and the site lead have been made aware of the facility issue several times. Another major issue I had with belcan was the lack of Employee Engagement. Their idea of Employee Engagement is sending out emails about ridiculous days like yo-yo day and such. But there was never any initiative to bring us together as a team. I would avoid Rockford belcan at all costs. Aside from their ridiculous and greedy 100% markup on their employees they are not growing and are losing contracts left and right to other Contracting firms that are more willing to provide higher wages and better working conditions. They will attempt to entice new grads to work for them by saying it's a good a good way to learn new skills but when your place with the customer you will essentially be doing the work of an intern with no hope of advancing your career in any way.

Cons

Pay wasn’t impressive and benefits were minimal

Cons

Just the typical negative aspects of being a contractor: minimal benefits and easily expendable

Cons

Benefits are decent and I like working for belcan because there is a learning curve for those that aren’t already experienced in the field.

Cons

- Owned by Private Equity and their decisions seem very focused on producing profits for PE, not the health of Belcan, their staff, or their customers - They don't understand DEI - In general, pay is below market as are benefits - They talk about being employee focused but the benefits and treatment don't match the words

Cons

Ionly worked for the Company for a short time even though I was in that position for years prior. I was separated from the company due to having to miss work because of illness and my son was diagnosed with a serious illness that is now under controll.

Cons

Only 24 hrs of sick leave per year. Office is in downtown Lexington, parking is 2 blocks away.