Don't work as an Environmental Technician here if you have alternatives ! - Environmental Field Technician Onterris Employee Review

2.0
Oct 4, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- 4 weeks of paid vacation per year. - Excellent benefits package. - You get to learn a variety of methods of air emissions testing. - Most coworkers are supportive and will help you.

Cons

- Managers can pass abusive/derogatory comments and unfairly blame technicians for mistakes. -Some coworkers are big-time bullies who will try to harass their less capable counterparts. -Work hours are too long (average day is 10 hours long). - Endless twists and turns and unexpected complications regardless of however much one plans ahead. - Teams rarely use to-do-lists, so sometimes they end up driving miles back to the office from far away locations in order to get missing items. - Work as a Technician is very physically laborious (climbing stacks as much as 300 feet high, often several times). Other tasks are also physically laborious, such as loading equipment in trucks. -Work often requires extreme attentiveness to detail and exceptional listening skills. - Technicians often have to work in extreme heat/cold in refineries, which have very high noise levels. - Very high percentage of travel, sometime to locations 11 hours away. -New lunch policy is inflexible and one frequently ends up paying for lunch from one's own pocket. -Testing equipment frequently malfunctions.

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Onterris Response
5y
We are excited to announce our new WeLead Female network, as well as our Diversity Fairness and Inclusion Taskforce. We are enhancing our 2021 Holiday schedule given recommendation from our Diversity Inclusion and Fairness Taskforce. I look forward to reporting on their respective future progress. Thanks so much for reading. Kevin Gill SVP HR

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Company is highly adaptable. Maintains agility even though the company large. Upper management supports and encourages employee involvement.

Cons

Being a publicly traded company hinders some type of growth due to burdensome overhead.

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Onterris Response
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Thank you for the feedback and market advice. Kevin SVP Human Resources
1.0
Jun 18, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Prior to our company's acquisition with MEG/Onterris, the company had a strong culture, supportive leadership, and employees who genuinely cared about one another and the success of the business.

Cons

If your company has been acquired, pay close attention to employee reviews and take them seriously. I did, and many of the concerns raised turned out to be accurate. Employees were repeatedly assured that the acquisition would create new opportunities and that jobs were secure. In my experience, that was not the reality. Long-tenured employees were gradually pushed out while similar positions were later reposted with modified titles or responsibilities. The former ownership ultimately lost control of decisions despite assurances that little would change. Employees with years of institutional knowledge spent years implementing new procedures, documenting procedures, learning the new system, and navigating disorganized Workday implementations with minimal support. Much of the guidance consisted of being directed to read instructions on the intranet. If you are in a finance position they will let you go! They will tell you they want it all centralized in Arkansas but that's not true, there are plenty of people working remote but you will be pushed out no matter how long you've been with your company. This not only affected me but our entire team was wiped out. They didn't give us a heads up in advance to look for anything for 2 years we were told everyone was safe and I believed them. Keep an eye out for the constant restructuring of upper management as well.

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Onterris Response
6d
Thank you for a decade of contribution, and for sharing this so candidly. Change of this scale asks a lot of trust from employees, and we recognize that. We take feedback like yours seriously as we work to communicate more clearly through transitions and support the people navigating them. We'd genuinely value hearing more directly please contact our HR team at HRCorp@onterris.com so we can listen fully. Kevin Gill, SVP, HR
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