What a mess - Avis employé Fabrication Technician ASC Process Systems

Thanks for the your review. I appreciate that you recognize the care we take to provide a clean and safe workplace. As for the Cons, you'd be surprised that I agree with most of what you've said, except maybe for the attitude. "Drawings are a joke" - As you know, we build custom equipment, and every autoclave or oven represents approx 500-700 hours of engineering to design new components and assemblies and provide fabrication drawings for those components and assemblies. A single mechanical engineer is tasked per job, so this can be a very difficult job, especially when they also have to juggle multiple projects and priorities. As a result, drawings are never perfect, and the mechanic has to suffer a bit with documentation mistakes and typos. We prepare the mechanics for this, and expect them to go with the flow, but sometimes it's easier just to complain about the drawings rather than empathize with the engineer's difficult task. "Always changes" - Yup. Changes are a normal thing at ASC - we're never stagnant and always try to continuously change and improve. We also have constantly changing targets with customers changing their expectations multiple times during projects. It can feel unbalanced, and I empathize with you and others who have to be flexibly to negotiate these changes. "Travel for work is awful. They go cheap instead of practical" - Travel can be fun, exciting, and a new adventure for some. For others, it can feel "awful", especially if you have to be away from family and you're not accustomed to that separation. As a result, we make it very clear during hiring that there will be travel and to ask whether the employee feels that they will be good with it. On the road, we put employees each in their own rooms and try our very best to find accommodations that are clean, new, and close to the job-site. Our goal is never to find the cheapest - we recognize that this is counterproductive. Travelers typically want to work 10-12 hrs/day and Saturdays to avoid staying longer, and we accommodate that overtime request. We also pay $50+/day in subsistance, so most travelers end up coming home with more money then they left with. We feel it's fair, but we're never going to make everyone happy. Thanks for your comments and I hope you've found a good job that meets your expectations. Good luck.