Extreme waste of overhead. You have to involve entirely too many people to get any work done. This makes you work even more because it is so terribly inefficient that you spend most of your day running around in circles to follow the corporate plan.
There is no trust with the employee to allow them access to do the simplest of things like pay an invoice. Look at the amount of money you can save if you paid bills on time and took advantage of discounts.
I would not work for this company as a subcontractor or vendor unless it is COD. It is an act of congress to get people paid.
There is no accountablility for Engineers or Managers that don't follow through with their job responsibilities. It honestly seems like if people don't feel like doing something then they don't and that is ok. Obviously this makes more work for others to pick up their slack.
I have never seen so many claims in my life. You hear or companies that take jobs at low costs and look for any claim/change order possible. This seems to be one of them. You spend more time working on claims than planning the actual work. There is more concern with nickel-and-diming the owner instead of building a lasting working relationship.
There is no physical way to see what your actual costs are on a day to day basis unless you keep a manual spreadsheet. By far the worst cost system I have ever seen or heard of. Plus, cost engineers do not have access to all cost programs which forces you to employ too many people in AP to answer questions.
Revenue-wise Tutor Perini is in the same realm as the Kiewits of the industry but the way this company is run is alarming. Truly disappointing and sad that senior management does not try to minimize waste. I honestly do not think that they know what "waste" is. There is a level of comfort because "this is the way that we've always done it" despite having a tremendous amount of room for improvement.
