HR has kicked off a study with EMTEC, GP, and the Business lines to maintain a 10,000 person center in Bangalore.
What a coincidence, we used to plan on a 10,000 person center in Spring, TX!
Target date is 2030. For any young engineer at the company, just keep in mind that YOU will be the support to the India location around that time frame.
HR has tried to keep it under wraps with a s* NDA. Because, you know, we value transparency as a behaviour!!!!!
Seems in line with the new BPO Engineering Management organization just rolled out- all new supervisor, mgmt and “portfolio lead” roles located in India to oversee LTTS and BTC work on projects. In addition to DTI (Direct to India) they’ve launched BBI so projects can buy all their equipment from Indian manufacturers as well.
Maybe “DTI” is the whole company moving to India…
Execs in EMHC buying knee-pads in bulk for the Indian government.
@1ktw Nobody said anything about Uber.
None of us can fix or escape the rot in the system, but we can limit the limit the damage caused to our lives due to bad decisions made by bad managers. How you do that is for you to figure out.
Theres something smelly going on
If you think this is going to take until 2030, youre deluded.
Management correctly recognizes that most EMHC employees don’t add any value for the $ they consume in compensation and their work is worth only a fraction of what they are paid.
Thank-you token BTC employee. OP can go Uber eats themselves a career. Brilliant.
It’s probably safe to say that the NDA (if it ever existed) was not very effective.
Anyway, if you’re worried about losing your job, go out and get some side hustles. Focus on what you can change and what you can control, not what you can’t.
@1ubv+1tpeuG8C I'm not saying your concerns are unwarranted at all but i also think you are fixating too much on this clusterf*ck and you might consider moving on (I plan to VERY soon).
@1dpx+1tpeuG8C - I care more about feeding my family and paying for kids’ college than I do finding oil.
I think I deserve some transparency as shifting my group overseas directly impacts my career.
The fact that they’re hiding the study behind a NDA tells me enough about this corp. what a F’ing joke.
I dunno...unless I see another leaked powerpoint showing reduced headcount in HC10 with corresponding proportional increased headcount (at a slope of 5:1)...I might believe it. OK sure..we're right on track with the leaked 5 year EMTEC plan....but that's probably coincidence.. maybe. Oh cr-p...
Thats in 6 years... of more imprtsnce id ur like a career man 45 yo. U may not make it to 55.
I love it how people spend so much time understanding and analyzing the ranking process, implications for forecasted international headcount adds, etc. Like, aren't we supposed to be finding/making oil? What do yall actually do at work?
@dgr+1tpeuG8C - No one is increasing HC10 “checker headcount”.
Global headcount is fixed. If you grow one center, it comes at the expense of the others. Required Bangalore size and forecasted growth goes beyond natural attrition trends… hence the HR survey. Exxon needs some way to offload the people you can’t fire (such as Canada, Europe, etc), and focused assessment programs to PIP the rest.
So, even if you’re not fired, you can enjoy that ever decreasing assessment pool until you’re bumped out. There is a reason Indian CLs are capped… the higher your CL in HC10, the tougher it will be to survive. It’s almost mathematically impossible to survive long term now.
If Bangalore gets to 10,000 then Spring will need to double in size to make 10 times as many corrections.
Nobody is allowed to track the number and extent of corrections required for work done at BTC so inevitably that lack of data will end up reducing headcount in Spring.
Increasing BTC without increasing the number of checker/correctors is a root cause of a major future event.
The architects of the growth of BTC without increasing checkers should be charged with negligence after that future catastrophe.
When will WebCat be updated for which hand to use on hand rail?
What is the plan to accomodate these 10K cheap engineers ? PSN is too small for that number !
@uop+1tpeuG8C Tell us more about Uncon plans. Clearly something is planned with so many BTC engineers from India working in Midland and Carlsbad. Note also the number of foreigners in leadership roles in Uncon gladly sending jobs out of the US.
My experience with the BTC and high value engineering centers used by contractors can be summed up in a short phrase:
You get what you pay for
The somewhat good folks that had been supporting me in India are now heading to BP!
EM better up their game. They ain’t the only show in town.
After the mergers and acquisitions in the United States during the last five years, we will be in a mode of Unconventional maintenance, not growth. You need fewer employees to maintain production.
Upstream growth will be in India since India has the highest GDP in the world in 2024.
Can confirm - our manager unintentionally shared her plan to move our entire BU uncon team to BTC by 2030.
That sounds like a great plan !!
But with deregulation of US federal government, US employees will become quite cheap as well. All this cr-p about EPA and OSHA and SEC and medical coverage will soon be gone …
Hope it is part of NDA scenarios …
True. Too bad it’s all done in the shadows, whilst lying to our faces.
What’s the use of paying people $200-300k when they can get the job done for $30-60k. It’s not like rocket science. It’s mundane work. The money company pays in medical insurance for a person in the US itself will pay the entire monthly salary for a starting level position in India. Plus no need plan for $1 million to $2 million in pension that the job in US demands. Plenty of savings, including money for social security payments.
Because our IT support from India is working so well......
I won't believe in dti until I see at least one board or c level job filled by a BTC employee.
perfect move
Please fire me now and send it all to the MSPs.
Shove all the work to BTC just to get it sent back to Houston to get it corrected. Save in labor cost and loose the long game. These senior decision makers are some real thinkers!
I can confirm OP's post. My manager (EMTEC) has been sharing his input into the study. At least he has the bal*s to give us a heads-up about what is coming so we can start searching for jobs now... instead of me getting pushed out in my late 40s.
I can't see management moving Spring to India only 2 years after fully integrating NA labs to HC (scheduled for 2028). Im sure there's a study, but this timeline doesn't jive.
In addition to BTC growing to 10,000, EM management have implemented a plan to build in India and buy in India so BTC staff can supervise fabrication and inspect quality of purchased items.
Projects for USA refineries will be designed in India, fabricated in India, then installed in USA by Indian Project Engineers then operated by Impat Indians.
That seems like EM management is trying to line up all the Swiss cheese barriers to create a catastrophe.
Brilliant move!
HR is going to shove this company strategy down employee throats till people get sick of the BTC and leave on their own. Sad to see great staff losing their jobs.