Great flexibility and good colleagues, but expect travel - Recensione dipendente - Civil Engineer presso Tetra Tech

Hired as a "fire-hire," the position is disaster based and 100% travel so you get to travel domestically paid for by the company. When working, pay is good, you can make a lot very quickly with overtime. Being part-time, I can take time-off whenever I want for as long as I want.

For my position, no natural disasters = no work. Living out of a hotel for months SUCKs and burn-out is real as you could be working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day for months on end. There's no added compensation for taking on an on-site lead position even though the workload triples. As a part-time employee, you have to pay more for benefits when working versus not working. There's a huge disconnect between part-time employees in the field and the full-time employees that do office work and upper management. Part-time workers are not prioritized unless they're willing to do whatever is thrown at them without complaints. The employee turn-over rate in the field is crazy.

Clients and projects ranged across the many different states, worked with a diverse group of professionals; remote working; some opportunities for work-related travel

Time off policy: Seven company holidays per year may be national holidays but employees were required to use their accrued PTO on those days. And while the company states that employees can purchase additional PTO at the start of each year, those purchased hours are accrued each pay period over the course of the whole year. Unclear BD practices created a severe shortage of work/assignments, and company policy states that employees must use PTO if no available work is assigned. High turnover rate of project managers created confusion and challenges when taking over their projects/assignments.