Where to start...
First, ACE has a taste for highly educated engineering graduates from Colorado School of Mines, CSU and others. These grads have degrees that should be applied to complex engineering applications, with careers that advance into tacking the engineering challenges of todays world. At ACE, these sophisticated degrees are dumbed down to basic valve sizing and selection. Does your valve cavitate? What trim should you use inside this valve? How fast do you want this valve to open and close? Mastering these concepts is the absolute HEIGHT of ACE complexity. Yaaaaaaaawn.
Well, maybe there would be an opportunity to come up with creative solutions to how these process automation solutions are applied, right? Oh, no no no. All of that creative spirit was squashed long ago. This is an Emerson store front. Nothing more.
Lastly, you have virtually zero MEANINGFUL career track at ACE. There's basically three steps: Sales Associate, Sales Manager and Business Line Manager... that's it. You can size valves, manage a small group while you size valves, or manage managers of small groups while you size valves. Want to transfer outside of this career into another that would be meaningful, perhaps in consulting engineering? Sure! Go right ahead, and you'll be paid at the entry level just like the rest of the college graduates who start there fresh from school. After all, valve sizing and selection is just a small piece of what a real engineer does. So, consider this place a career delay.
