21: Pirtek Employee Reviews

The best coworkers and supervisors you’ll find, management will either treat you like you excrete gold or they’ll talk about you behind your back to all your coworkers and never bring up any supposed issues to your face

Was this review helpful?

Servicing big machine like drill riegi and ect

Hose Assemble (Former Employee) - South deep gold fields mine - 20 July 2023

Forman they check they are station time to time and are we working in the cleaning n safe workshops everyday and always stock it's available for customers

Was this review helpful?

"Great Family Owned Company" but only if you are part of the Family

National IT Manager (Former Employee) - Kings Park NSW - 29 June 2023

Run Far Run fast.Zero innovation, do as I say, do not think type attitudes. Management foster a fear culture to maintain control and any form of expense requires an ROI analysis that would leave the frugalist Scotsman weeping.

Pros

none

Was this review helpful?

Average place to work

Senior Technical Officer - Technical and Testing (Former Employee) - Head Office Kings Park NSW 2148 - 10 May 2022

Tasks - goodHours - standard for role / office jobSalary - low/average for a senior position Colleagues - great Upper Management - OK to marginalWork life balance - average

Pros

Variety of Jobs and tasks within the position

Cons

Upper management coordination with the team

Was this review helpful?

Not Good

Area Sales Manager (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 6 December 2021

A house divided with a rancid management culture There training schedule was a week in Sydney which reminded me of a speed dating session and a box ticking mentality. Avoid this company.

Pros

None

Cons

The company

Was this review helpful?

Rate your recent company

Share your experience to help others

Great small business

Manager (Current Employee) - Wodonga VIC - 22 April 2021

Great place to work with great people. Learn new skills in hydraulics and pneumatics, working on equipment from forklifts/trucks, heavy earthmoving, all the way down to vehicle power steering lines.

Pros

Smoko provided on Fridays

Cons

On-call is not for everyone

Was this review helpful?

I learned a lot at Pirtek

Hose mechanic (Current Employee) - Sydney NSW - 18 March 2020

I enjoy working at Pirtek it’s a lot of fun the people there are great and good people to be around, they would do anything for anyone even out of there own

Was this review helpful?

Ungrateful ownes

Hose Technician / feild sevice (Former Employee) - Launceston TAS - 14 January 2020

Back breaking work, Underpaid for the work you do, very one side ,rip off anyone to make a buck including workes ,very high turn over of staff not worth the time

Pros

None

Cons

Heaps

Was this review helpful?

Very professional but lacks culture

Financial Accountant (Former Employee) - Kings Park NSW - 30 November 2019

Professional clean environment that for an accountant can sometimes not have a good work home balance. But overall a great experience working there, and exposure to many aspects of accounting

Cons

Long hours

Was this review helpful?

Poorly managed, terrible culture and lack of respect for work/effort.

Workshop Coordinator (Former Employee) - Campbelltown NSW - 19 March 2019

Management have made many promises to staff over pay, progression, changes around the workshop etc, in my experience they have never come through on their word. There is a blame culture and management are setting the example. I have seen staff unwell or taking personal days for their childrens health and they have been harassed by management for being soft or not coming in when we were busy, this has gone as far as to harass someone while their sister was in hospital in an induced coma. Pirtek has on multiple occassions decided to ignore contractory obligations towards their staff training (even when disputed heavily), and have harassed and bullied staff into skipping their breaks when they feel they are too busy to allow it, even when they are aware that the staff have started early and will be finishing late (12 hour days on occassion). other than these are many other examples, Pirtek is a busy and generally interesting place to work if you can tolerate the lack of appreciation and poor pay for most positions.

Pros

consistent work

Cons

aggressive/intimidating attitude from management towards workshop staff

Was this review helpful?

Jobs at Pirtek

Productive fun workplace.

Customer Service/Warehousing (Former Employee) - Mackay QLD - 23 August 2018

I had a great time working at pirtek Paget my roles were stock control, customer service ,metal lathe work, soldering fittings and working with precise measurements.

Pros

Hour lunches were plenty of time

Cons

Got very very dirty

Was this review helpful?

Productive happy environment to work in.

Technician (Former Employee) - Muswellbrook NSW - 28 May 2017

Pirtek was a secure well paying family business that looked after its employees, with a comfortable working roster and after hours on call work the business ran productively.

Pros

work truck

Cons

long hours

Was this review helpful?

I don't have a positive thing to say.

Purchasing and Customer Service (Former Employee) - Sydney Western Suburbs NSW - 19 May 2017

This company were good to me with my hours being a single mum. The pay was good aswell. Apart from that there really isn't really that nice about it. I didn't learn much from them as I put in charge of there SMC Pneumatics products to sell over the phone or at the counter.

Pros

Good hours and very flexible

Cons

All men who were pigs.

Was this review helpful?

Challenging

mobile sales and service technician (Former Employee) - Chinchilla - 15 April 2017

I worked with a great team that was very supportive and taught me so much in return i shared my knowledge with them making their jobs easier as well.

Pros

Great people

Cons

low pay

Was this review helpful?

Productive Workplace

Stores Person (Former Employee) - Sydney NSW - 21 February 2017

Pirtek Ltd provided me with space to learn and develop skills to be an unsupervised stores person. Throughout the day, I would pick and pack orders ensuring that all orders carried out were 100% accurate at a high speed. A range of cultural diverse within the company helped to make every day interesting and more enjoyable.

Pros

Bonuses

Cons

Knowledge and concentration is vital

Was this review helpful?

fun work place

Mobile Hydraulic Technician (Former Employee) - Wacol QLD - 5 April 2016

lots to learn lots to delegate awesome place to be at. always able to teach a lot of things and aspects about the job, a lot of hydraulic diagrams to read and awesome environment.

Pros

the hospitality

Cons

was not any

Was this review helpful?

Enjoyable work environment

Operations manager (Former Employee) - Darwin, NT - 17 January 2016

Pirtek was a great place to work enjoyed a varied range of topics, good staff, fast paced and required a hands on approach. Long hours and dedication to the job where required also alot of attention to detail to make sure of the health and safety of staff and customers.

Was this review helpful?

friendly workplace

Road technician (Former Employee) - Laverton - 28 July 2015

Most of the time as a road tech,I was away from work shop repairing hoses.When I am back to the shop, mostly stock up and help the boys for serving workshop customers.

Pros

well paid

Cons

working hours was not clear.

Was this review helpful?

hard working place

Lead Hydrulic fitter (Former Employee) - Bathurst, NSW - 30 May 2015

tough iv learnt a huge variety of work everyone working at pirtek is great the management make it hard to work there they do not give any support

Pros

shift work

Cons

management

Was this review helpful?

Mostly good place to work at.

Centre Technician (Former Employee) - Gladstone, QLD - 29 May 2015

A typical day at Pirtek in the workshop was continuously making hydraulic hoses for customers like Bechtel, Qal, over the counter sales, source and pack customer orders ready for delivery, off load trucks of stock, things I learnt most was to be more diverse. Loved working with the nutty bunch of monkeys I worked with, they are a great bunch of people, first time i'd worked with 457's and it was an experience, best bit was getting them to be more Australian. I love working with blokes over ladies that's just me!!!! Don't think there was a hardest part of the job, cause if you love doing what your doing it's not hard. Love working in hydraulics. Most enjoyable was having great workmates that always gave me a good laugh and good customers. Best part was when you tell the customer I won't be a moment i'll just make your hose, some are quite surprised it's me making their hose and not one of the fitters.