Q&A With Summit Materials Employees

Facetiously, political skills. From my perspective only, some lax in conflict management skills. Therefore Summit Materials is afraid of a little bit of friction or pushback from those good people they hired to make their company better. Like most things in life a person, a company, are only as strong as their weakest link and summit Materials doesn’t want to hear any opposing opinion about anything. In physics it’s not the air in the tire that keeps the tire on the road it’s that small amount of friction between the road surface and the rubber that keeps the tire on the road. Too much friction and the tire, or company spends out going nowhere. Two little friction and And the tire, or company slide off the road or doesn’t meet its goals. Just to small and right amount of friction is what keeps the tire or the company moving forward.

Political skills. They surround ourselves with people who say yes and never give constructive push back. The hierarchy of leader ship are very poor at conflict resolution and management. A person can have the greatest skills in the world but if you’re not light personally not professionally, by those in supervisory positions, it doesn’t matter you will not succeed at Summit Materials. Summit Materials needs to work on the philosophy that Steven jobs fostered, Why do we hire good people and then micromanage them and tell them what to do when we should be hiring good people so they can tell us what we should be doing to become a better company? Summit has so many layers of managers who touched something just to touch something that literally it can take a month or more to get a response on an email.

On a scale of 1 to 10 probably a 3. In my position I ask for software for three years to improve the efficiency of processes and to save more money for the company and I was told the company couldn’t afford it. The company couldn’t afford it because those who made the decision did not understand what needed to be done nor the money that would really be saved for the company for years to come. In my professional opinion they are shortsighted incompetent managers, and I use that loosely, not leaders.

Like most construction companies they have a tendency to be slow in looking outside the box. The philosophy of “this is the way we have always done it” has a tendency to impede progress in new areas.

I asked and answered

Coworkers were great people

I couldn’t tell you I never received a promotion.

I have no idea.

Aside from all of the politics it was a pretty good place to work.

For my position there was no feedback process.

No the right people.

I’m not secure because I’ve been terminated due to budget cuts.

The people with whom I worked and associated.

Fast pace and at times very stressful.

Depending on who you are and what position you hold you could receive lucrative bonuses, executive retreat, paid company vehicle or vehicle allowance.

Accounting in one building operations in another. Not a lot of collaboration going on.

Plenty of diversity.

That’s hard to say.

I was working anywhere from 40 to 55 hours per week. There were some who worked more of a flex schedule which appeared to be less than 40 hours in the office.

On most days pretty normal.

It could definitely be better. It’s my experience that most of the leader ship have thin skin’s and poor conflict management skills.

It depends on who you know.

No someone who is in the decision making position

Normal

It’s a construction company and in the 21st-century it appears to be business casual.

CEO and owner of Kilgore paving in maintenance. One day.