Plains Midstream reviews about "manager"

All the managers there never operated in this facility so they just don't understand what it is to operate there. All they focus on is loading operators up with menial tasks like painting on night shifts, checking car seals, checking fire extinguishers and other idiotic things. there is only 1 or 2 competent operator on each shift and simple plant checks get missed constantly. Things constantly break because maintenance doesn't fix anything at all. They also hired contract 'operators' they are actually informants and rat out the fulltime employees to upper management. If u want to put your safety at risk then work there with a bunch of burnt out employees who hate their lives. There is no experience working there and zero mentorship. They replace process experience with incompetent contract rail loaders. The supervisor thinks as long as you do your training modules your are now competent and good to go. One 20 something year old kid with 3 months operating experience was given a high risk project with zero support at all. There is also no communication between workers here and I have a feeling there will be a disaster there which is why I got out as soon as I could get hired somewhere else. Everyone else is looking to do the same and it's easy to see why after the glam wears off

High pressure, competition between employees which creates a low trust environment, bosses that play favorites, rampant gossip, Incompetent Leadership mainly Directors and Vice presidents. Very young directors with no experience and great back stabbers. Engineering managers lack common sense and some of them can't even speak english.

Lack of knowledge in the front office, people promoted because how bad they’d be willing to treat people. Hourly employees have been at work through COVID, yet we could be punished for nor completing our “ Return to work Training” on time. Training consists of an online document with an acknowledgment. “Training Specialist” role is just to keep LTIP intact, more like a training secretary. We need training that creates people that can think and react. Now that DL is leaving, there is only 2 more senior managers that need to be purged. He was one of the 5 that caused the engagement numbers on site to be so low. Locally, they demoted one of the causes back to the planning department, but he’s still here. Just let us do our jobs.

Company does not care about safety. Safety is managements last priority. Management has created a toxic environment where everyone fears discipline or dismissal for simply disagreeing with management. Management is also scared for there jobs due to the company being Micromanaged therefore managers don’t make good decisions and only care about saving there own job.

new management from failing spectra energy moved in and buried the rail department and set the operations and maintenance departments against each other. Half the operations department is new and dont know what they are doing on site. no training is what i see. other sites that are 1/3 the size have more operators. you call control room and cant get a answer because there is 1 guy on the board controlling pipeline, rail, truck, caverns, frac, taking phone calls, dealing with management, random contractors walking into control room.. never seen a company so afraid to pay OT to get things done. our maintenance department is a disorganized mess, bunch of people ratting on each other. the new managers on site have driven the culture of this place into the ground

There is blatant abuse and theft happening in a certain FG. You NEED to listen to the rumours about managers stealing time from the company, shirking duties, working reduced hours, taking mulitple extended leves leaving regularly on person time, and browbeating direct reports. Flex benefits being used tojustify theft of time and double standards. All ratings are impacted by this situation.

- Management is incompetent to the point that they would not get a job anywhere else. They were all fired from their jobs by Enbridge during the Spectra buyout and through connections/nepotism got jobs here. One of the shift supervisors does not have a clue about operations/ has never operated and got a shift lead role. During a plant trip , she did not have a clue as to where critical equipment was/ what to do for a path forward. - The plant operations manager is a lunatic/psychopath who treats people like prison inmates and children. Experienced operators are not being heard and being silenced when they speak up. This man has the leadership ability of a paperweight. The evidence is clear in the fact that the plant has over 100% turnover in operations. Over the last year 19/20 operators have quit and left. People with 4 months of experience are being asked to lead major projects involving serious risk potential. - Do not go work here unless you have 0 options or are about to become homeless and need that paycheque. If I could give this place less that 1 star .. I would. Take this review very seriously before you accept a role with a bunch of jokers.