Graham is ruled by a small group of self-centered buddies, with big egos, in an arbitrary leadership style that sometimes reminds of a dictatorship. If you are from Saskatchewan, and have some kind of family ties to the Graham clan or a long history with Graham there, that is a big advantage in your favor, regardless of your professional skill set.
The company has clearly outgrown its senior management, who are operating beyond their experience and skill level. Decisions are made in a seat-of-your-pants style and processes are seriously lacking. This is an example how small Saskatchewan company leadership in a large company leads confusion, perpetual urgency around fixing home-made mistakes and skeletons in closets. Power struggles between central functions and field management are prevalent, often resulting in dysfunctional and counterproductive actions and unclear reporting relationships.
There is an atmosphere of greed, driven by the employee ownership program and ruthless senior managers. That comes at the expense of middle and lower management employees, who are sometimes fired on a whim, in order to keep share unit profitability up, or simply to demonstrate power. Due to the lack of processes, there is no strong risk management program in place. That puts the business risk on the employee-owners, who have sometimes invested their live savings, not knowing the gamble they are taking on. Also, the employee share unit price seems to be manipulated by the senior managers to their personal advantage.
Overall, I do not recommend working for Graham, unless you enjoy following arbitrary and random orders that in many cases make no sense, but reflect the "flavor of the day", given by senior managers.
Incompetent decisions from management are typically "fixed" by firing any scapegoats that can be identified, whether justified or not.
Don't join them.
