ironworker

carpenter

senior engineer

site engineer

security officer

Laing-O'rourke

My day at work is generally determined by my own diary/"to do list" but i am obviously required to chair or attend other team meetings.
Our procurement is now of a very high standard and this results in a smooth process through design/pre-start planning to effect a well planned commencement of specialist trades.
The team is made up of an interesting mix of younger graduates and former trades supervisors who are inbedded into the various departments either permanently or as a stepping stone position.
Despite the demands placed on us all, there is also time for getting together to share our issues, and this is done with a sense of humour.
The job requires that we all make an enormous contribution to H/S and QA so making time to complete the various proceedural forms and reports is essential. You need to be very disciplined in this respect and following up with the "close-out actions" is the hardest part.
Structured and balanced work life ensure that you can always enjoy the fruits of your efforts daily/weekly.
For myself it is the pleasure i get from the younger team members who are learning the business. Assisting their career gives me great pleasure.

I was assisting senior site engineers/surveyors for Laing O’Rourke and while I was working with them, I have achieved tremendous practical skills and understanding the basic reality work in an actual work site. I was working as part of a team managing the construction of Europe’s largest biggest port being built in Essex, which was named as London Gateway Port (LGP). My everyday tasks involves with working out on project daily programs, dealing and negotiating with clients, quality assurance, process control, site supervision, setting out work using Leica surveying equipment, and mainly on the basis of daily checks such as As-builts, plotting data with AutoCAD, repairs and estimation of quantity and rate analysis. Furthermore to broaden my experience during the 8 months I spent at London Gateway Port, I have also worked as health and safety assistant engineer in doing hole track protector on a weekly basis, which includes COSHH investigation of all the equipments, storage facilities and site safety of the workers on how to use their equipments. In the time, I was involved in handling over paperwork for the completion area.

All of the management is one big click!!  If your face doesn't fit your on there radar they abuse the position there in and they have people being made redundant but choose to keep someone who was brought in doing a job what wasn't needed before being paid 3 mans wages instead they keep someone who was put into a made up job roll because they are to bothered about there little click than people who actually work hard and have skills in wide range of the factory dont think your ever safe if your thinking of working here I got offered a course witch put my wife out of work because of the shift change. To help them out but if your not a bloke or women that kisses your bosses feet when you work and you just crack on with your job this place isn't for you STAY WELL CLEAR also 3 months for agencies before they are supposed to laid off or taken on that 3 months will soon turn to 5 or 6 if you get put on afters or nights and you ask if you can be rotated depending on the area you work you'll be left on that shift shocking system they have at EXP10REEMANUFACTURING Speaking to adults like kids!! There is way to many MICRO MANAGERS here Most of the lads that work here are top lads 

I started as a general labourer clearing site rubbish.  The job was very heavy physical work.
It was only for a 3 week period, but I was able to extend this period to six months, not only for myself but for the other four persons who started on the same day, merely by asking a simple question, "If you have so much cleaning work why am I and my colleagues being laid off at the end of the week?", to which the site manager replied, "I'll look into it", and at the end of the day I was told I was being kept on.
When I was moved to the other side of the site, I had an accident, but was put on the lifts as a lift operator.  I enjoyed meeting and helping the contractors move their gear in the most efficient way so that the lift was in constant use and not monopolised by any one person/contractor and I must have been doing something right as I was kept on the lift duty until the end of the contract.

Plesant people to work alongside, however Management seems to be luck of the draw. Few managers seem to be laid back and friendly with their team members, others bully members into producing good manufacture figures. 

Fairly stressful, with little to no support from higher management. As I trainee I recieved no official training, everything was learn on the job, but I recieved openly displayed dissatisfaction with my work if anything was incorrect.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Getting to work with different teams inside the project. For instance one day the steel team and the next day the transport team 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Constantly moving around and not forgetting important documents and tools as the project area was big so getting them back would cause time waste 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Friendly and welcoming as we had people from all different nationalities getting well together 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come into work register in the reception and then go meet ur team leader of the day to see the jobs assigned to you

Good company to start your professional career. Interesting projects.
I can only speak for the one site I know.
 Posers and bullies. The kind of people who are only nice and helpful to those who can help them to climb in their professional career.
Bullies that are allowed to behave like that because they have worked in the company for many years. A toolbox talk if things get out of hand. 

It is not a team, it is a tribe. If you do not want to play these games, it will be make clear by some of them that you do not belong there. The rest of the tribe look the other way.
I decided that my health was more important than my job and left (with a stomach ulcer).

Typical day at work includes monitoring progress, marking up programmes, summarizing and producing a report for relevant members of the team.
Learn't a great deal about the sequencing of a programme, outputs of activities and correspondence with subcontractors.
Was planner on smaller projects along with managing the document control side.
Managed various design subcontractor packages such as Fixtures & fittings, envelope, signage.
Most difficult part of the job was trying to change mindsets of others.
Most enjoyable part of the job was working as a team.

My day usually starts with a meeting  with senior management regarding what we will be trying to achieve during the day. I then have a team briefing with my team to give then the relevant information they need to carry out there tasks. during the course of the day the work load will be monitored to ensure our targets will be reached. I share information during the course of the working day to my co-workers. The hardest part of my job is the hours I'm out the house on average 14 hours per day. The most enjoyable part of my job is when I take a step back and look at the job being built and what we have achieved as a team.

A typical day could be good/bad and stressful just be prepared despite having an agreed TES in place.
There were management issues as some did not have right background skills or experience to fulfil roles at that level and rarely got involved to resolve issues when raised.
Great people to work with, but not all particularly those came through agency on a temporary contract basis to adapt to LOR way of working.
The hardest part of the job was working with those who worked with the company over a short period assisting as they were not familar with systems.
Company did nothing to retain. 

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Ironworker 12 salaries reported	£22.80 per hour
Carpenter 9 salaries reported	£23.74 per hour
Senior engineer 3 salaries reported	£55,000 per year
Site engineer 8 salaries reported	£37,594 per year
Security officer 22 salaries reported	£14.03 per hour

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