What is overtime like at Kiewit Corporation?

You'll learn alot and get alot of hands on experience.

You'll work alot of unpaid overtime and lots of weekends and 12 hour days.

learn a lot - lots of responsibility and competent bosses

long hours and toxic culture of 30+ hrs / week of unpaid overtime

They give you lots of responsibility so you learn lots in a short amount of time.

Typically you work long hours but the overtime pay is great.

Nice work environment and people

No over time pay, but you still might work more than 40 hours some weeks

There were good people there and a ton of resources. It would be a great place to start out of school and learn a ton. The benefits were good as well, especially 401k match (7% as I recall). Also there's a very high turnover rate so there's lots of opportunities for advancement because they'll just throw any junior engineer who drinks the kiewit cool-aid (follows protocol and doesn't ask questions) into a project engineer role to fill a spot, who a year later gets promoted to project manager, then department manager not long after that,

My experience was in the power generation group and I was only there for about 8 months before I got burnt out, so keep that in mind. They are a construction company first and engineering is a support staff to construction who leads the projects. Construction Schedule is king and I was brought onto a project team of a lot of young engineers where the project was behind schedule already. I had 10+ years of experience so the expectation was that I would be just thrown into the project and run. I was fine with that, but zero grace was given with regards to learning their processes and systems, which were very abundant and intense. In my opinion a tenured engineer doesn't need to have a peer panel design review at 30%, 60%, 90%, IFR and IFC... and then also have the EOR reviewing after the fact and making even more changes to the design. This is just a lot for someone learning a new analysis software, project management systems, benefits systems, scheduling systems, calculation package expectations (every little member, connection, etc... requires a calculation with every limit state checked, no engineering judgement allowed). For each of the deliverables I was given while I was there, I was allotted a very short window to complete the task. There is no way to get design completed and 5 review cycles along with coordinating with the drafter to get the drawing package for each review cycle completed in 3 weeks time. It's impossible to get everyone they require at each review meeting in a room at the same time, let alone 5 times in 3 weeks. Took me 6 weeks to complete my first deliverable (which was not some measly task, it was a full blown building design along with coordinating with pipe routing and designing for all process pipe supports, supporting equipment on the roof, and supporting safety analysis for construction safety tie off points. The next deliverable I as given was a building foundation for a PEM building, plus foundations for all process equipment. The PEM building was really like 3 buildings as it was 300 ft long and had 3 different roof heights. I was given 3 weeks to complete this, I told them from my experience 8 weeks was realistic but I thought I could do it in 6 weeks, and their response was the schedule is the schedule and the due date can't be changed... I worked like 80 hrs a week to get it done in 4 weeks then was chastised for working overtime when they apparently had someone else in some other department that was slow and could have helped... at that point I was fed up and moved on. Oh, and they do pay straight time for overtime, but only after 45 hours, so your first 5 hrs of overtime are just donated for free

You get paid a paycheck.

Work tons of overtime and not get paid for it. Daily verbal abuse by your supervisors. Zero respect for your life or health.

Cool Work, lots of good experience

Overworked and not paid for overtime, volatile working environments

decent pay, work environment, activities

too much overtime unpaid, lack of work-life balance

There were good people there and a ton of resources. It would be a great place to start out of school and learn a ton. The benefits were good as well, especially 401k match (7% as I recall). Also there's a very high turnover rate so there's lots of opportunities for advancement because they'll just throw any junior engineer who drinks the kiewit cool-aid (follows protocol and doesn't ask questions) into a project engineer role to fill a spot, who a year later gets promoted to project manager, then department manager not long after that,

My experience was in the power generation group and I was only there for about 8 months before I got burnt out, so keep that in mind. They are a construction company first and engineering is a support staff to construction who leads the projects. Construction Schedule is king and I was brought onto a project team of a lot of young engineers where the project was behind schedule already. I had 10+ years of experience so the expectation was that I would be just thrown into the project and run. I was fine with that, but zero grace was given with regards to learning their processes and systems, which were very abundant and intense. In my opinion a tenured engineer doesn't need to have a peer panel design review at 30%, 60%, 90%, IFR and IFC... and then also have the EOR reviewing after the fact and making even more changes to the design. This is just a lot for someone learning a new analysis software, project management systems, benefits systems, scheduling systems, calculation package expectations (every little member, connection, etc... requires a calculation with every limit state checked, no engineering judgement allowed). For each of the deliverables I was given while I was there, I was allotted a very short window to complete the task. There is no way to get design completed and 5 review cycles along with coordinating with the drafter to get the drawing package for each review cycle completed in 3 weeks time. It's impossible to get everyone they require at each review meeting in a room at the same time, let alone 5 times in 3 weeks. Took me 6 weeks to complete my first deliverable (which was not some measly task, it was a full blown building design along with coordinating with pipe routing and designing for all process pipe supports, supporting equipment on the roof, and supporting safety analysis for construction safety tie off points. The next deliverable I as given was a building foundation for a PEM building, plus foundations for all process equipment. The PEM building was really like 3 buildings as it was 300 ft long and had 3 different roof heights. I was given 3 weeks to complete this, I told them from my experience 8 weeks was realistic but I thought I could do it in 6 weeks, and their response was the schedule is the schedule and the due date can't be changed... I worked like 80 hrs a week to get it done in 4 weeks then was chastised for working overtime when they apparently had someone else in some other department that was slow and could have helped... at that point I was fed up and moved on. Oh, and they do pay straight time for overtime, but only after 45 hours, so your first 5 hrs of overtime are just donated for free

Fair Pay, Benefits, Regular overtime, Paid accommodations and travel. Good group of guys.

This particular camp accommodation was dirty with Jack n' Jill washrooms. Slightly unorganized leadership on this site.