Terrible place to work - Project Manager Icon Water Employee Review

1.0
Sep 22, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good pay - 15% employer contribution to superannuation - additional leave days between Christmas and new years.

Cons

- Micromanagers and toxic work environment. - Experienced engineers are no empowered or trusted to make a decision. - Experienced and qualified engineers will de-skill working at Icon Water. - Project delivery team not moving in the same direction and not outcome focused (i.e. delivering projects) and are highly inefficient. Micromanagers focused on the wrong thing (i.e. re-writing a report 3-4 times and having their exact wording in the report before they sign-off on it with no ability to have your own thoughts/ opinions represented. Saw this first hand on how the micromanagers are happy to belittle you in front of others in the open plan office if you mispell one word or the grammar in the report is not perfect). - Micromanagers discourage original thought, new ideas and different viewpoints. - Poor processes that add red tape and a very poor document management system with no QA that is 15+ years behind the rest of the industry. - Highly beauractic and inefficient.

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5.0
May 3, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A clear vision for Canberra with support for their staff.

Cons

Still a bureaucracy with too many forms!

4.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Really good smart people who care about the work they do

Cons

Management is slow and super risk averse. Stops innovation

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