cuisinier

éducateur de la petite enfance

préposé aux bénéficiaires

marshal

boulanger-pâtissier

Western Camp Services

Western camp service is a thriving, mid tier camp catering corporation that competes with other catering companies such as Horizon North Royal Camp torch industries, Aramark  just to name a few. 
They have are well organized, well staffed, and a strong human resources department who has their employees backs. they have above average salary, pay on time and with few mistakes. Their management also has a substantial amount of experience at running a catering company. Compared to other camp catering outfits I would say Western is one of them more well organized ones. 
I always knew what to expect the vast majority of the time I was working out of town for Western. (Until recently.)
For any fellow job seekers out there considering a western camps as an option for work, I would recommend it. 
Fire camp season is always good option for cooks and chefs and bakers, after all, you get a lot more robust food budget to work with when you work for the government. You can expect the fire season last four or five months. 
They have lots of other camps aside from the fire camps as well and oil and gas or fracking industries. I was lucky enough to secure work after fire season too.
However, for these ones can sometimes be hit or miss with Western I learned.

 It really depends on the type of client or industry involved. After all Western is corporate, and the amount of food budget or staffing needs largely depends on how much money the company is making from taking on any clients.

If you work outside of fire season the work was definitely less enjoyable, sometimes actually untenable for me personally. 
The sheer amount of expectations was absolutely dreadful with the ultra tight budgeting and they are lower staffed, then the government contracts overall. (Western is apparently notoriously tight budgeted.) From my last two out of three placements, I lost my cool over seemingly impossible demands. Other staff became afraid of me over my intensity, and I was unceremoniously fired recently got it for that.

Aside from from my experiences in the past few months, I would still say Western is a very solid bet to seek camp work and the head office will even go to extra mile for you if you have the right skill sets. And are reliable. 

Thanks for reading and good luck Job Seeker.



This company is a very bad company to work for. They have a few employees to whom they give all the hours and just use you up to fill in the gaps. They would lie to you about getting more hours until you are fed up, and when you speak up they say you are no longer wanted. 
Do not believe a word these guys say. Especially the lady at the office. She would just feed you lies. The camp managers are totally useless. They create problems to make themselves look important and needed. Most of them have been working for the company for years, so they get away with anything.
They should honestly be ashamed of themselves, but not everyone has a conscience. 
This being said, this company has been in business for 15 years and they only have 6 or 7 tiny camps at best. No wonder !!! This is the best proof of incompetence, at all levels.
I do not ask you to believe me, but now that you know you will see that i am telling you the truth the closer you get this company. 
For the owners, if you really don't know about this, then WAKE UP !!!
If you do know about all of this, then SHAME ON YOU TOO !!!

I found they were very particular about safety and treatment.
A typical day there was awake and ready for work by 7am and it was strip the rooms of towels and bedding and start laundry. We would clean the bathrooms make the beds dust and if needed vaccum. We had 42 rooms each and once a week we would go and clean the offices or recreation room. Management was great patient and understanding. I didnt find anything hard about the job. The thing I enjoyed the most was the travel and some of the people I got to meet.

Hard to put into words, as you needed to experience the uncaring, unorganized, chaotic nature of the “management “ team. I’m told that most camp related businesses run on the “edge” and this company is no exception. I can only speak to the position I held, however had several employees express to me their unhappiness at working here and most stated it came from the inability of management to communicate openly and clearly, no training, a feeling of being unappreciated and treated like your a piece of equipment. I definitely could relate. There’s no big picture feeling here, your not part of anything.

Loved working there, wish it had not ending!!! Get to serve and manager a camp of 30 to 100 workers, make camp a healthy safe environment, keep trailers sanitized and clean sheets, bathrooms and showers cleaned, kitchen cleaned, computer work done, tailgate safety meetings, hazardous prevention and Fire safety!

A lot of times you're short of food and it's just the office being cheap cutting our food orders in half they don't know how much the people out there eat there is no support from the office at all and if you're not a favorite of the office hiring people you don't go to work

Kept me busy, worked with some phenomenal chefs and other talented individuals, they have a safe and work safe culture for warehouse, drivers and camps. I mostly enjoyed my workdays, tho sometimes longer. Its good to work with people who all want to do a quality job and will do what it takes effort and timewise to shine!

I've worked with alot of camp companies and what makes this one stand out is the management actually care about their employees, pay is about standard industry rate and based on the contract you're working.

If you work hard and stay professional they will keep you working, highly recommend western ive had nothing but positive experiences with them.

It was nice to work for a large company that was family orientated and actually cared about it's employee's and employee advancement.

The worst company I have ever worked for. Management in the office has no clue, they leave you stranded in remote work places and don't answer the phone, or sometimes even tell you. I know of numerous pay mistakes of different employees, weather it not being paid for overtime which was approved, or just not paying the time they have put in.  Long drives and no travel pay.

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Cuisinier 2 salaries reported	$17.00 per hour
Éducateur de la petite enfance 1 salary reported	$16.50 per hour
Préposé aux bénéficiaires 1 salary reported	$250 per day
Marshal 1 salary reported	$40,000 per year
Boulanger-pâtissier 1 salary reported	$233 per day

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