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Centerra-Gold

What is the best part of working at the company?
transportation to and from provided so you don't have to beat your vehicle up on rough unmaintained roads, and helps with costs

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
no leadership, too many people interfering with role, undermining authority to get things organized, boys club who spend time ignoring policy and direction, you don't fit in even if follow procedures, made feel incompetent, all the good qualified people don't survive in this work culture

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very awkward, the productive workers are always charged to feel self doubt, no support system, old boys club, need to change the superintendents that have been there for way too long,  it can be rough culturally inappropriate jokes, and comments during work shifts

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
10 to 12 hour shifts, bus on site, meals provided, meetings, training, toolboxes, lots of computer time, audits, SAP, and other document controlling, building charts and analysis, very loud environment, dust, chemicals, small space to work, lots of interruptions

Management is awful.  Preach safety but don't follow their own rules.  Good workers are left feeling ignored and demoralized while lazy workers (sleeping, late, not showing up at all, breaking policy) are constantly overlooked.  Management plays favorites so if youre friends with the shifter you can get away with pretty much anything.  Management is a revolving door. Current managment doesn't care less about encouraging positive and safe working environment unless there is any incident.  Guess what... ppl are stealing and committing all sorts of infractions right under your noses while hard workers beg for something to be done.   The pay is "good" for anyone who's never worked a camp job but significantly less than many other mines- once you reach top TEC rate you're done. Non unionized environment just makes all this easier for them to get away with.
Would push a broom for min wage than to ever work here again.

Where to begin. I was hired on by a lot of lies and broken promises, management likes to play favourites, bullys are encouraged and their behaviors are labeled as "coaching moments", when reported, excuses are made for them or im told to "just get used to it". The job itself is the definition of monotonous and extremely boring, zero chance for advancement unless you have relatives or good close friends that are upper management with pull, the pay is pathetically low, the  quarterly "bonus" is laughably low despite high production numbers, the maintenance is disturbingly bad, equipment is barely holding itself together, breakdowns are common place. The camp itself isn't too bad. The food is disgusting, the bed is comfy, the internet is terribly slow but there's cell service so get data for yourself. You'll be using it a lot. The bus rides are long and uncomfortable, and your travel time isn't compensated.

Overall the management makes very poor decisions when it comes to their employees well being and respect to performance. I have watched a lot of good workers leave milligan over the past few years due to management and hope to see that change with a relatively new mine manager but hasn't happened yet. They will let superintendents promote and give apprenticeships to family members and friends with very little to no experience instead of the people that have committed themselves and proven to be good reliable workers. I used to be proud of where I worked and tried to get friends to leave their jobs to come work with me now if they ask I recomend they explor other options before applying as there is very little chance of advancing in their career at mount milligan unless they suck up to just the right people. 

Hardest part of the job is the poor work culture, there is a lot of bullying permitted, a competitiveness, job interferences, disregard for value of good employees, poor retention, lack of processes, more management hours wasted on politics than actually addressing the issues with employee dissatisfaction, even though they say their door is always open you can never find someone in time of need, and if you do have a voice no one listens, very dull and repetitive tasks, little room for advancement, most of the higher ratings are now being placed on this site by management themselves in order to combat all the negative publicity, turnover is high due to toxic environment, they preach cultural diversity but it is not being followed by many departments.  Unless you want to be left feeling unappreciated and surrounded by other staff experiencing anxiety would not recommend for a good balance of home, work and life relationship.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Worked with this company as Cybersecurity Manager with responsibilities similar to vCISO. I was really lucky to have a good team and leadership with open minds towards innovation and digitization of non essential business functions up till Q1 2023.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
It felt like new IT management have been lost in politics and had poor understanding of what cybersecurity is about. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
As of 2023, company took a shift towards more of a conservative approach and culture.

I found the pay good, the benifits decent and they do offer a small bonus program ( then never get it right tho). I found managment was the main problem that keeps moral low and constant turnover. Managment will never admit when one of their own makes a bad call. They would rather get rid of good employees than admit one of the good old boys screwed up. No accountability for the managment team. Also a good deal of the managers are not qualified for their jobs, they promot based on a buddy buddy system not a skill system.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Accountability, seriousity, collaboration

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Too much manual work with files, could be replaced by more automation (Power BI, SAP capabilities)

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Excellent culture, could be formalized better into clear policies and procedures.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Clear guidance and actions every day, plus novelty of continuous improvement

Do not quit a job to come here. They seem to be very clicking guys, if you don't fit in or rub them the wrong way they'll just call you on your week off and let you go. The site is very loud and dirty. The washrooms are disgusting and the trucks are never cleaned. They want you to take a bus to site, however the bus schedule means you waste 2 days of your 7 days off with traveling. The shifts are 12 hours a day, but no overtime as they are non union so they get away with the "compressed" work week

What is the best part of working at the company?
Opportunity to learn.  Training provided and great mentoring. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Heavy work load with not enough back end support

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very good.  Friendly.  Definitely needs a change in upper supervision . 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Very busy.  You will loose 3/4 of the day to basic paper work and phone calls

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Technician 10 salaries reported	$40.93 per hour
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Operations technician 4 salaries reported	$38.88 per hour
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