Pros
Great crowd of young engineers and enthusiastic Some fantastic people at a personal level Good variety of work but always smaller parcels of work Access to great training courses (but comes at a cost. see comment below**) Salary is above the industry norms
Cons
**Jee remove the cost of training from your salary. So people departing the company leave once their salaries have been paid for the preceding month to make sure there isn't a claw-back on their wages. Jee are selective on who gets penalized for training costs-someone leaving to go to a customer doesn't get hammered. Whereas anyone going elsewhere which won't benefit Jee directly will get hammered for training cost recovery. Training cost recovery is standard in industry but not when the employer forces people to attend internal courses when they are not on billable work. You cant refuse to go on training. Also, its unreasonable (and morally wrong) to try and recover the retail price of courses when these courses carry only internal costs for delivery. Management in Tunbridge leave a lot to be desired. In the time I was with Jee, some of the 'initiatives' dreamed up by marketing beggared belief and went to show there was no real understanding of the oil & gas industry in rural Kent. If more time was spent on chasing and securing business and less time on building processes, then the company would be in a lot better shape than it is today. Jee offered jobs to 8 graduates in 2012 and a few weeks before they were meant to join the company, they were told they were not needed - shocking. Jee paid-off their 2013 graduate intake only 5 months into their contract and this was unforgivable to most of the staff. Probably is one of the reasons there has been a massive exodus from the company in the last few months. Very senior and loyal people have now left the company because of the shocking treatment of staff. No annual bonus paid again this year due to the company not making money claimed Trevor Jee. Staff are not stupid, they know that a "holding parent company" was set-up in 2013 into which massive management charges are paid. Trevor Jee's income last year (y/e April 2014) was reportedly in excess of £720k yet staff got ZERO bonus.