The review I submit is limited to the building group. It is said that a work culture is defined by the worst behavior it’s willing to tolerate. Sundt- building group lives up to this point.
Sundt prides itself by judging your work ethic and commitment to the company by the sacrifices you make for a project. If You are working in the field You will be deemed expendable during a crisis or pandemic. Lastly they regard your loyalty and commitment with loving eyes if this comes at the expense of sacrificing your Saturday’s & Sunday’s, time with family, and working 12 hours per day.
Your success & longevity will be dictated by your very first project manager you’re assigned to, and you can be a PM in this company and not being up-to-date with technology and work-flows. The project can have demands and aspects your project manager and superintendent have never seen or managed yet they will impose standards and expectations they themselves will have no clue as to how complete.
More often than not Your Project manager will be grossly under-trained , or put in from another position they failed at within the Sundt Organization or another project. You can ask your PM or project superintendent for help, warn and indicate of an upcoming and dire situation, and the job-site admin level will remain the same. Swastikas can be found on the jobsite but nothing will be done about it . Don’t bother escalating to senior management or HR. If the project is bringing in millions of dollars to drive their company’s operating income, or has been written down as a lost cause project administration management will remain unscathed.
Not every project will come with a full-time safety representative. This will further stress and realign the burden to your job-site project administration (PE, PM, PS, FE, FS) on top of the goal of delivering a project.
The building division obtains work by building project administration with a ratio of 1 person for every 10 million dollars; however they blatantly neglect the complexity of the project, and completeness of design and construction drawings.
Training regardless of position and experience isn’t uniform across each project. There’s a high turnover rate and the effort they made (or lack there-of) to improve new employee on-boarding and training is centralized to LinkedIn learning without any content, substance, or project standards.
As far as diversity, the bar is set low. It’s the usual homophobic and transphobic rhetoric onpar with the construction industry. If you’re a person of color, suppress all ethnic indicators as it will be subject to ridicule and basis for isolation; it was observed that those who suppress their ethnicity have longevity within the company.
When there is a setback or impact on the job-site, someone will get fired but it won’t be the one deserving of it. Additionally, you can be fired for asking for help. Project directors, managers, and superintendents are masters at creating fictional scapegoats out of the least-deserving. Lastly, if you’re an employee battling cancer or if the loved-one of an employee is seriously- ill, the employee is almost guaranteed to be terminated. Be sure to to keep this secretive should you or a love one become severely ill
The silver linings of this company are the safety and VDC departments. The safety initiatives continue to improve the company. The building group would improve itself if it operated as organized and dignified as its corporate safety department
Lastly, its VDC department is amazing. It will uncover how broken & incomplete the design yet is underfunded on every project.
