"controls engineer" in Maintenance - Maintenance Mondi Group Employee Review

- Long hours. 12 hour days, sometimes on weekends (not at all rarely and you wont know if youre working that weekend until late in the same week. (to be fair, you can leave after 8 hours but you tend to feel guilty and its not guaranteed). be willing to be at work ALOT - not entirely truthful with the scope of work i was doing. (this is my personal experience and wont necessarily be yours) i am a fairly experienced computer network technician and was looking to do more of that at this job. they were in the process of setting up a network to see how the machine is running to gather more information. i was told i would have a role in that. i was given small jobs to learn the equipment (PLC's if youre familiar, i wasnt) and when i got these opportunities i ran with it. brought home the equipment to learn more and really tried, and succeeded to some degree, to learn how it worked. My progress, i can only assume, went largely unnoticed or was neglected and i found my self less and less involved. I was told i would be a master electrician and a HVAC expert, which to some is a great opportunity but i already have/had a career path and, in my view, was not what i was hired for. for the record, there is a ''team'' atmosphere, when something happens to the machine everyone drops what theyre doing and works son it together. but i eventually found myself cleaning fans and motors all day for weeks at a time. I made my mistakes there, i cost them alot of money by neglecting to plug in 4 fans due to pure oversight and i have always been apologetic for that. But the fact is they told me in my interview that i would have a role to play in setting up their diagnostic network and that never materialized. During my interview they showed me the server room (which i never went in again), further advancing my expectation of having a real role in using my skills to advance their network.