Seems like high attrition in Baytown Engineering services. Heard couple of FE, Instrument and AE left the team for the past few weeks. What could go wrong? Is it PIP related?
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The big three B's have the highest overhead via SWB leading to overruns on Opex. The Engineering leadership does not care if there is high turnover. It helps meeting their budget.
Same for ES in singapore, saw alot of engineering folks leaving for tech or other petrochem companies. Fact is that with TMTS or whatever they call it, what is left for us to do beside base? Someone mentioned base as a thankless job, that is 100% true in ES. You can be the goto person in the BU/BT but as long as ES doesn't think that you are a good match for TMTS, you either get ranked badly or just PIP
Baton Rouge is on par with the other B’s so it must be a corporate thing. Legacy dh and engineering manager that was placed in another position did a lot of damage that it will take years to recover
Wait, I thought TMTS was going to fix all of this haha
If things keep going this way everything will blow up soon.
As far as I can tell, what’s left of BTES is basically struggling to keep things running, with little to no chance of growth/improve opportunities. So these same remaining people will continue to be hurt by the PA system because “base work” is a thankless job.
There needs to be separate ranking of supervisors and managers (separate ladders). Supervisors take the top half of the ranking leaving only the bottom half for technical. A bottom ranked supervisor (even if he/she is ranked at 50%, should always be shifted back to technical. Then they must re-prove their value in a technical role against long term technical people. Most bottom ranked supervisors drop to the bottom of a technical group because of technical obsolescence.
BTES suffers from a couple of problems. 1) technical people (non-MD) in some of the more grind it out, non flashy disciplines (instruments, FE, machinery, systems, inspection) are pushed down simply because of lack of flash, 2) the DH and Engineering Manager levels love, love, love flash, "global" visibility, and clearly having favorites due to non performance related traits, 3) the 5% NSI on top of the 2 years of 8% NSI has a lot of individual contributors down on their outlook for a technical career, 4) TMTS (offshoring to Bengaluru) is another downward outlook on long term technical careers. There will be some long term technical careers, just fewer here in North America. People are opting out. We sold ourselves for YEARS as being about valuing technical, long term, never having to leave this big company for a secure fruitful career. People came here wanting that. The game has changed. The management has changed in BTES. They DO NOT CARE if you are technical and you leave, trust me. They (BTES and FORMER EMRE mgmt) think they can hire your replacement even in the face of lower acceptance rates of offers. These changes are some that everyone needs to recognize now for your own long term mental and financial well being. Not telling people to leave, just understand the game. We are truly on one year contracts now.
For those people leaving recently, some may be PIPs, some may be people seeing a career at BTES as not being what they hoped it would be, some may be seeing the change to BTC as not being something they want to participate in.
Regardless, do know that at one time the majority of the people leaving were valued, liked, and did good work. Things have changed.
I haven’t heard anything about an EMRE merger. But it’s true attrition is high
Preparing for the EMRE merger
Our turnaround costs in our refineries and chemical plants are 2 to 3 times the industry average.
It is hard to remain competitive with maintenance costs that are significantly above the industry average.
Just search on LinkedIn under ExxonMobil Bengaluru and sort on people and review their titles and background experiences.
The ExxonMobil Bengaluru Technology Center is hiring exponentially with all engineering disciplines in Upstream and Downstream. This explains why people are quitting in Beaumont, Baytown, and all other EMRE locations in the United States.
Have you seen the “leaders” they have at the top of BTES? Look no further as to why the attrition is so bad. No accountability for the lot of them.
I wouldn’t trust them to lead a petting zoo. I’ve seen more clarity coming out of a black ho-e than their town halls.
Science reminder for those kids still following these snake oil salesman. Nothing ever comes out of a black ho-e.
Wait , did you not hear that one of our biggest issues is we do TOO much maintenance!
That’s right too much thus we must transform…
Baytown and Beaumont have insane attrition right now. Engineers leaving in droves
Ooh really? I heard the same thing too. More like need to reprioritize some of the base maintenance work due to lack of resources. All the best for us who are still working here