geotechnical engineer

environmental scientist

senior geotechnical engineer

mining engineer

Golder Associates

This company is productive and innovative, with lots of diverse engineering disciplines. I enjoyed working for this company, and made a lot of friends. The culture is one of mutual respect and teamwork.
My day began with coffee and a quick reassessment of deadlines. Chargeables were measured in 15 minute intervals, and I averaged 30 - 35 chargeable hours per week, often working back to achieve this.
I relished the challenge of presenting analytical data, survey plans, geotechnical cross sections, civil design, mapping, EIS, whatever was necessary. I enjoyed the satisfaction of contributing to a team outcome, and being responsible for my own quality input. There was a huge volume of work, and I was busy every day.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Some of the people are good to work with

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management without ethics and back stabbing co workers

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Culture of back stabbing at the top and doing anything to get ahead with co workers

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Haven’t worked there for 10 years, but used to be very busy and very high level

Very productive busy and challenging day
Extended my teamwork and management skills
Learned to manage high grade projects
My colleagues are very professionals 
Hardest part of the job is travelling and driving for long hours
The most enjoyable part of the job is daily challenage

Golder was a technically very capable consultancy, with a good professional culture. It has increasingly become a very poor work/life balance with work hours of 50+ per week. There is no serious advancement unless you buy it (buying shares). Management is self interested and cares little for the skills and interests of staff. There are better companies to work for. 

Started as a graduate here, with 2 great years, with a fantastic culture and where I felt I had opportunities for my career and personal development. The past 1.5 years have been hard and overall I have received negligible pay increases and dwindling work in the space I am interested in.

The management team and culture at Golder is fantastic. It is like one big family! The company provides fantastic learning and growth opportunties for it's staff. Would recommend Golder to anyone starting out their career in consulting.

Golder is a horrible place to work at. The management is extremely poor and the associate and principal system they have in place is very outdated and inefficient.

I not only managed hydrogeology projects, but also participated in environmental, tailings and civil engineering projects.

Poor management, over  rated and greedy. Rely too heavily on past victories. No help or support provided when needed. Lost direction as a consequence of a revised management structure.

nice group of people to work with. Some of the long standing associates could be very crass and demanding at times. Often given very short deadlines and expected to stay behind to finish even if it was after hours .

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Geotechnical engineer 6 salaries reported	$71,333 per year
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