My supervisor told me this week that the chemical plant and refinery leadership is set to combine starting mid next year. The engineering division will functionalize to how it was a few years ago, technical division will become one across the site, and process units will start merging with pilots coming as soon as 1Q. People will start moving offices soon after. They will be naming a transition manager here soon just like Beaumont. Is this a good change or will this just increase the toxicity BR has even further?
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Why add group leads? They have been part of the problem. Cut them, cut principal engineers and hire more Indians. All they do is muddy the water and steal base engineer credit and work
Group leads will be added on top of all the new principal engineers that have been identified for each discipline in engineering.
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Well said and BRCP has its share in the SP group and engineering!
Would be great if this opportunity was used to get rid of toxic managers, but the toxic ones usually move upward during these reorganizations
When is this going to happen?
Going back to how it was a few years ago...good management strategy.
We should have combined refinery and chemical management twenty years ago.
There was a post a while back regarding the transfer from Beaumont that was deleted for whatever reason. I wouldn’t expect things to get better per the folks at Beaumont.
You get rid of manager headcount in the process?
There's no difference between chemicals and refining now, you're all the same. Makes it easier to fire at will.
Depends on who the manager becomes. If the manager is anything like it was 3 years ago. It will be a train wreck.
It’s so jacked up now, I can’t think of it getting any worse but yeah. Getting rid of toxic managers is always good. Hopefully they will get rid of group leads too.
Good, I like operating as funtional. I can't see it hurting because so much back and forth happens between RF and CP anyway. Might as well cut out some managers :)