project engineer

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senior project engineer

project manager

Lendlease

What is the best part of working at the company?
Top heavy, with senior staff surrounding themselves with mates. They sound like they have all the bells and whistles but have little substance and generally, if you’re not in the inner sanction you don’t get heard, no matter how much you make for them. 
Proof is in the pudding. I joined when they were about $21 per share in 1999 and left in 2012 when at $7 per share. Here it is 2024 and they are stagnating around $6 a share. This company should be at $40 - $70 per share. 
They are just a bunch of ego driven self congratulatory low level professionals playing with other people’s money. 
I did meet many with great talent, some are still there and in more senior positions but I dare say too little too late. 
They had some fabulous projects and great opportunities but ignore many talented people in their drive to survive. 
I look forward to the day their culture changes, and I’m sure it will when the shareholders stand up for themselves. 


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Over inflated egos and having to explain to every new project director why you are on their project, why are you paid so much and what possible value do you bring. There is little knowledge sharing between projects as everyone thinks there an expert. They don’t value a good team. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is fine , there is little culture to speak of. They sell themselves well but can’t deliver. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Interesting as they have great projects you are treated like a cog in someone’s wheel.

I worked for Lendlease across multiple projects and found that the tempo and pace of work was often grueling when project deadlines needed to be met, but this was more than fairly compensated and addressed by management. From flexible hours to comp paid days, if you worked your tail off trying to deliver something, my experience with management was that they would see you had time to rest and recover. 

There was a constant push to take advantage of alternative compensation options such as lendlease paying to send you to certification or training courses. Their leave policy on the projects I worked was "please don't screw us over if we need you, but you don't really request days, you inform us when you're not available and we adapt." That was definitely an eye opening and pleasant way to look at PTO.

All in all, I would highly recommend Lendlease, but state that your management experience will depend on the project you're attached to. While corporate level policies are excellent and the pay and alternative compensation is outstanding, you still have to consider each project you're hiring onto individually. 

A typical day will be juggling and prioritising emails and calendar management, responding to emails, scheduling and aligning meetings, booking flights and accommodation, attending team meetings and working on reports and expenses.

Working in a positive environment and working with a motivated and dedicated team, it was always a pleasure to be part of this team, the communication with the team is an essential part of a successful EA and this was had and with feedback and acknowledgement from your Manager makes it a successful team.

Knowing at the end of day that I accomplished most things on my to do list, that is what is satisfying and enjoy that I added value to the company.

- Great flexibility offered as a result of me having transparent conversations with my manager
- If you put in 150%, work on process efficiencies and new ways of working, you will be rewarded. I know because I have.
- They are open to new ideas but still working on removing the layering that add to the bureaucracy
- Good staff benefits like staff deals, health checks, free flu vaccinations, wellbeing days and community day
- No one day is ever the same. In the 5 years that I have been with the organisation, I have seen so many changes happen so it gives you the opportunity to get involved in a number of projects and learn so much in a short space of time. These will not be served on a platter, you will need to seek out by broadening your network, look for secondment opportunities and learning on the job.

Anachronic management style in IT, running an IT dept. as if in the 1980's. Drowned in complexity, paperwork. It makes government agencies mgmt style look professional and efficient.
Blaming culture, unsupportive. Staff live in fear and are not allowed to bring up ideas as the managers feel threatened that, that  is "their job" to come up with the bright ideas and everybody else just simply follows.
Spend zero in training and professional development and people get the sack in a heartbeat because things don't go according to plan.
Business side keeps complaining about high IT costs, mediocre quality and hardly meeting deadlines. In desperate need of fresh blood and highest level to bring about true innovation.
Don't touch it if you don't want your personal health to be negatively affected.

Lendlease market themselves in a very sophisticated manor unfortunately the sophistication ends where it starts.  The organisation prides itself on its accomplishments, as do other organisations but are ignorant of the efforts of those who went the extra mile to make their projects excellent and as a consequence are losing the talented people and retaining those have a unique ability to preserve their own standing in the business.  

There is no career path unless you are part of a clique and if you are in such a clique then congratulations for possessing a rare collection of attributes such as ignorance,  arrogance, abusive, uncaring, unsafe, etc.

Senior managers have been seen to publicly lie to their junior teams with promises of a future with the business only to plot their removal the following day. 

Glossy outside untrustworthy inside.

I am currently working and living in Newman WA for Lendlease as a Senior Project Manager in charge of the mechanical division which involves day to day running of a workshop, mobile plant and maintenance crews mainly to BHP sites.
The position also involves the tendering, quoting and estimating of works on a daily basis. Most of the work we price is for maintenance but we also tender for new builds often required to come up with solutions or a quicker safer way to carry out repair work. 
I spend a fair amount of time in the field liaising with clients to understand there needs to ensure that we both achieve the same result.
Safety is my number one priority and we are constantly rolling out safety concerns to our crews to make sure they go home safely at the end of every day

Typical day's work would start with filling out the pre-start ,permit to work, to excavate any other permits that would be required for the day. On most projects I would see the superintendent sometimes once-a-day and sometimes just once a week it would depend on the project will paperwork had be handed in every day on the projects that are close together, but when you are out west on roads. It was handed in once a week. The hardest part of being a foreman would be to make sure that all the paperwork is in place before work commences. And I've always found to be friendly and jovial with your workers you have a tendency to get more production out of them.

I have worked 3 years in supportive and friendly culture where high engineering standards have been set. As the group has been working on projects, performance and project delivery meeting time and budgetary limits has always been a demand. I have learnt working according to these high standards, being challenged yet supported. This culture have been passed onto more generations of engineers. 
I was always pleased to accomplish one milestone and was eager to proceed with the next one and accomplish them all. It has been a great pleasure contributing to our engineering group's success.

What a ridiculous company.... in my whole career I have never worked for a more unprofessional, poorly run business.
Paid a disgusting flat rate, and not paid correctly for hours worked, including meetings. Employees, who were family, were favoured & not disciplined for misbehaviour, and then kept on when others were laid off.
Management is unorganized and sloppy. Treated staff terribly. Shouted at us, belittled us, manipulated us with major contractor, always believed the worst instead of communicating. 
Would rather be unemployed than work for them again. 
Do not recommend them to anyone, not even my worst enemy.

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