40: Water Corporation Employee Reviews

Strategy and culture have improved significantly in the last 4 years.Corporate culture is good with a clear positive view on mental health Can be slow and boring at times due to legacy culture

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Poor productivity, poor planning, poor management, poor systems and waste of manpower and resources.

Meter Reader (Former Employee) - Western Australia - 12 November 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Bad planner in water corporation, I give good advice and suggestions but they never want to change.What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Many of their water meter that is hard to find can be improve with my suggestion but they don't want to change. So it remains hard to find forever. Many route plan make you walk back to your car without reading meter, I have good ideas that can solve this problem but they don't want to change.What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Their bad culture that pass down from many years ago is they just don't want to change, they just wanted to remain the same, especially the senior staff in the office.What is a typical day like for you at the company?Encountered the same problems days by days because they don't want to make the changes.

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workplace is like an extended family

Meter Reader (Former Employee) - Balcatta WA - 8 June 2023

Amazing and supportive work environment.Staff are open and available to contribute to a healthy , inclusive workplace. Work life balance is important but not really applicable with this job.

Pros

excercise

Cons

long hours, wheather

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Social workplace with bad management and HR

Advisor (Former Employee) - Leederville WA - 2 May 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Stable company Social atmosphere What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Management not making decisions Poor management and HRWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?Social environment- great social clubsWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?Dealing with management issues, Quiet work tasks

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Productive and enjoyable place of employment

PROJECT OFFICER (Former Employee) - Perth WA - 16 November 2021

Productive and enjoyable place to work, many opportunities for training and advancement, you always have the ear of management if you have any issues, and also constant review of your work requirements,supportive teams and colleagues

Pros

Birthday morning teas

Cons

varying hours to meet deadlines

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Do not trust anybody and never work there

Customer Service (Former Employee) - Kalgoorlie WA - 12 June 2020

Absolutely disturbing and disgusting place to work, you can not trust anybody I would never recommend anybody to work in the corporation environment, filthy rotten people

Pros

None

Cons

None

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very good balance between work and family

Electrician/Technician (Former Employee) - Shenton Park WA - 3 April 2020

I personally found job security, unfortunately immediate and upper management were found lacking.Stuck in yesterday and many were afraid of change. We have always done it this way attitude.

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replacing fire hydrants (Former Employee) - Canning Vale WA - 8 January 2020

was i enjoyable working on site replacing fire hydrants was subcontracting at water corp replaceing 3/4 hydrants a day with 3 guys . turning off valves 1 to 11 valve shut offs to working after hours in places water couldn’t be turned off during normal business hours .

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Great Place For Trraining - BUT DON'T STAY. They have no loyalty to employees

Lead Planning Engineer - South 32 (Former Employee) - Leederville WA - 21 November 2019

Worked there for a long time, but I don't have a Govt employee attitude. I took every opportunity to learn and it got me into much better paying positions as a contractor. I hate the way they treat long term employees. It is awful. People who have worked there 30 plus years get made redundant and walked out the door. I benefited greatly by working there, but the attitude to employees is sickening. Imagine working there for 30 plus years and being escorted out as if you are a criminal. Didn't happen to me but I know of several cases where it did.

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Workplace Culture

Member Service Officer (Former Employee) - Balcatta WA - 5 November 2019

Competitive, unrealistic KPIs, management bullying, stressful and unfair expectations. The customer calls and the training were all good. It was once we got on the floor, taking live calls, that they were very strict on the structure and progression of the call with no leeway at all for the customer type you were talking too - it was definitely not how a good call Centre should do business

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Friendly workplace

Trade assistant (Former Employee) - Mandurah WA - 4 November 2019

The work was good and digging was the hardest job there, the work consisted of compacting the ground and cutting pipes and assisting my boss it was a enjoyable job with it being me and the boss only 80 percent of the time

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Customer Service Representative (Former Employee) - Balcatta WA - 31 October 2019

Not family friendly. The culture at Balcatta was toxic, and staff were encouraged to spy on other staff. There was a lack of advancement as well.

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The culture of the business can be very fast paced.

Scheduler (Former Employee) - Canning Vale WA - 23 September 2019

Depending what area you work in can be a challenge. Reactive and planned work means jobs that need to be done within a specific timeframe;learnt a lot of acronomys and used a lot of their applications and systems. Management was always changing like the business - insecure;workplace culture can be demanding and some of the people are not very nice;hardest part is being not given proper training; repetitive but love it.

Pros

free barbeques and morning teas.

Cons

confusing at times...

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Great place to work ssfety outcome focused

Maintenance and Operations Planner (Former Employee) - Perth WA - 23 August 2019

Great people some areas lacking leadership. High level regarding safety. More different branch collusion required. Overall great place to work. And a feeling of contributing to the community as a whole

Pros

Rdos

Cons

Processes and procedures being transparent at times

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Great Experience

Electrical Engineer (Current Employee) - Jandakot WA - 8 August 2019

I do Electrical & Instrumentation design works, coordinate with Electricians to ensure the installation meets the design drawings. After, I coordinate with the commissioning & PLC teams to ensure the project is running. Then I close the drawings redlines to have an As Built Drawings.

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Great place to work

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE GENERAL MANAGER (Former Employee) - Perth - 8 June 2019

Great place to work. Management are good and the work life balance is great. I would recommend the Water Corporation as a work place to anyone. Plenty of parking too.

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Poor pay and carreer prospects

Sr.Project Manager (Former Employee) - Leederville WA - 22 March 2019

Not a place for a person looking for career progression. Long term employees always on leave and people seconded from other departments do not care because they move on

Pros

Flexible hours

Cons

Poor pay and poor creer prospects

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Company ok but management not really got clue how to manage workloads and people

SCADA Support Engineer - Contract 1year (Current Employee) - Perth WA - 5 March 2019

Company ok but management not really got clue how to manage workloads and people Total waste of time trying to have a career here, its management just change plans and projects at drop of hat, run like typical government agency. easy to work there but soul destroying

Pros

none

Cons

no change of career

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Ideal for people who like working by themselves

Meter Reader (Former Employee) - Perth WA - 23 October 2018

I thoroughly enjoyed this job due to the flexibility of the starting hours and the great management. The challenges I faced are the harsh weather conditions, repetitive walking and near incidents with dogs and insects.

Pros

Fairly independent

Cons

Poor weather conditions

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High stress workplace, but good rewards.

Asset Performance Regional / Asset Analyst (Former Employee) - Bunbury WA - 9 October 2018

40 odd years of service at a variety of positions and locations. Good rewards for hard work. Some interesting and varied work, although a lot of it is repetative.

Pros

Securety

Cons

Stress

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Rewarding

Contract Officer (L4) (Former Employee) - Leederville WA - 9 September 2018

Creating BIDs and evaluation of documents to create a contract with a supplier was most rewarding. Friendships made with work colleagues was fun. Management was supportive.