Pros
• Employment stability. • Excellent training. • Opportunity for work related travel. • Good opportunites for promotion if you: show initiative; are willing to work; are prepared to relocate (city, or country); and are prepared to take those opportuniites when they arise. • Reasonable benefits. • Excellent management at Executive level.
Cons
• The trade off of employment stability is that salaries, in Loss Prevention Engineering in particular, are not so competitive. However, if you are prepared to look for opportunites in the insurance side of the business, then your good performance will be rewarded. • Approach to Engineering is very conservative and somewhat blinkered in that it is very reticent to acknowledge loss prevention initiatives that originate outside of the company. The approach of Engineering Management is, at times, somewhat patronizing. It did feel like that I was back in high school at times. • Quality of middle management is variable. Promotion practices for middle management do not always rigorously evaluate the management skills of candidates.
