Pros
-Flex Work hours -less micromanagement. -If you are lucky (or desperate ) and you can pushing to other Project Managers. you can work on some cool projects from other office. As the AECOM Dallas Water team has little to no work or presence in the local municipal or state or federal market, in order to stay billable, you have to depend on other office.
Cons
-The Dallas Water Team doesn't have any work or any win, 90% of the Water staff (PM, PE, EIT) left in the last 12 months (including Land Development Team, H&H, Design). Do not move here if you are an experienced PE or PM. Very high turnover rate. The Water Team fails to retain good people. -Very low Salary, lowest compared to industry average. Years of service at AECOM Dallas office is inversely proportional to your salary, and they don't adjust the salary for current employees when the adjust the global salary scale. People who have worked 5+ years are making 60-70k, and the new college grad with zero experience are being offered 70+k. If you ask for your deserved raise, the Dallas "leadership" or "Regonal VPs" will use every textbook tactics not to pay. -The local Dallas "leadership" do not care at all about the employee. The org chart is literally "top heavy". the Dallas Water Group have too many "Vice President" and other heavy title people, who doesn't understand the market, doesn't bring or win work, doesn't collaborate with other AECOM office, but expects their employees to be 100% billable. But by the way, when the employees went on their own, and solicit their own work from other offices, the "leadership" wants full credit for it. -No Growth Opportunities. -Very Low Morale in the Water Team.The culture overall is "fake". The internal politics between business line is too obvious. There is no assigned "office manager" for individual office. People say this often, but you are literally just a "number" there. My Advice: If possible, move to other AECOM office in Texas. Austin, Houston office has a lot of excellent PM and enough workload as well as cool projects . I have worked with a lot of PM in various AECOM offices nationwide, and I can honestly say AECOM has a lot of exceptionally talented people both in Management and Technical Side. That's just not the case for Dallas Water.