Penn West Petroleum

A typical day at Pennwest consisted of completing daily entries on payables in the accounting system, opening and distributing mail, answering phone calls, working closely with vendors to ensure Pennwest is meeting deadlines on their payables. Planning and taking minutes at monthly safety meetings. Ordering office supplies monthly. Handling any enquires on the fleet vehicles belonging to Pennwest  ie: maintenance. Assist all management on daily enquires of the business. 

At Pennwest it was very family orientated and was an amazing place to work. We all got along very well which made going to work everyday very enjoyable.

The hardest part working with Pennwest was there wasn't adequate training for certain things. They would roll out  new programs and wouldn't follow up with the staff if they needed more training. 

One of the most enjoyable parts of working at Pennwest was that they were always challenging their staff by giving them different tasks at any given moment. The cross training was high on their priority list and I felt it made me a very valuable employee given that opportunity.

White collar crime...wrong people are working their...they walk the walk and talk the talk...with yea of little knowledge or business sense ... and how to balance the financial statements...they still pay consultants today (current) big bucks per hour ($60.00 to $80.00 an hour) yet shares are in the gutter. They hire paper pushers...and yet they do not care how to make or recover money (management and the upper crust ...dah) ... they are just protecting their pay cheque(s) etc...board of directors should be extremely more accountable fire them, they did not do there job(s) ????

I filed, merged files, indexed files, labelled files, sent files to offsite storage.

I learned many things about the oil industry.  I went to school for seven years while I worked at Penn West at night.  Penn West sponsored me for one two year course.

Management was good.  For the most part co-workers were good.  The hardest part of the job was near the end when it was getting too much the same.  The most enjoyable part of the job was serving the in-house customers.

I really enjoyed my time with Penn West and feel that they were an equal opportunity type of employer.  I worked with a great manager and felt that I wast treated fairly and encouraged to participate in the growth of our department.

Really enjoyed working here, the staff and management were super friendly. If i needed help or had questions they would help me right away. This was also a contract job through a placement agency.

Company was great at first when I was a consultant.  When hired on full time pay was little and promised advancement never occurred.

My first employer in an Oil and Gas Industry.  I learned so much and gained lots of experiences and knowledge about data entry, coding and indexing.  I learned what frontend and backend invoices are.

Company in crisis mode.  Joined them at a time after they laid off substantial part of their permanent staff.  I was a temporary contract while they were shopping properties for dispositions.

While I was there Penn West was a family oriented company and looked after their employees.  We worked hard and we played hard.

Culture changed with exponential growth due to multiple acquisitions. Became more corporate with many management levels. Was run as "small company" despite being large mid-size.

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