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    What’s it like working at Ertech?

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    Employees at Ertech value working with friendly and professional colleagues, noting strong team culture and solid working relationships. The variety of work and exposure to different projects is appreciated, along with opportunities for career growth and timely salary payments.

    However, there are some potential challenges, including concerns about senior management communication and support, a clique-based culture affecting opportunities, pay rates not always reflecting experience levels, work organisation and planning needing improvement, limited career progression in some areas, and safety incidents on certain projects.
    Work/Life balance
    3.0(61 ratings)
    Career development
    2.8(61 ratings)
    Benefits & perks
    2.6(61 ratings)
    Management
    2.8(62 ratings)
    Working environment
    3.1(61 ratings)
    Diversity & equal opportunity
    3.1(60 ratings)
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    5.0
    Eectrician
    Jul 2026
    Barrow Island WA 67123 to 4 years in the role, former employee
    A positive and rewarding experience, strong safety culture and good opportunities for development.
    The good thingsErtech has been a great company to work for on Barrow Island. The crews are supportive, management is approachable, and there is a strong focus on safety, teamwork and delivering quality work. The projects are interesting and provide good opportunities to develop skills, take on responsibility and work alongside experienced people.
    The challengesLike any FIFO role, being away from home can be tough at times, but the good crew, roster and working environment make it a lot easier.
    2.0
    Electrician
    Jul 2026
    Barrow Island WA 6712Less than 1 year in the role, former employee
    Not great would look elsewhere
    The good thingsBeing paid on time Experiencing Barrow Island
    The challengesManagement poor Purple circle throughout site Poorly organised works with safety issues
    2.0
    Precontracts Team
    Mar 2026
    Wangara WA 6065Less than 1 year in the role, former employee
    contributed multiple wins. apparently i intervened this ops mgr while he was chatting and let go
    The good thingsSalary on time, exposure to projects
    The challengeswould do great with different operational manager
    5.0
    Senior Surveyor
    Mar 2026
    All Perth WALess than 1 year in the role, former employee
    Strong technical leadership in Geospatial
    The good thingsWorking with the geospatial manager was the highlight — highly skilled, knowledgeable, and a valuable asset to the business
    The challengesLeaving and no longer working with the Geospatial manager
    1.0
    Advisor
    Feb 2026
    Barrow Island WA 6712Less than 1 year in the role, former employee
    The worst place I had ever worked at. Totally regret stepping into the role with Ertech.
    The good thingsThe flight out. Fauna was interesting.
    The challengesNever worked with a purple circle that has no idea in my life. Management had no idea. There is no personal developement opportunities as they are hidden at sea.
    2 people found this helpful
    1.0
    Electrician
    Jan 2026
    Barrow Island WA 6712Less than 1 year in the role, former employee
    Would not recommenced
    The good thingsSome blokes i worked with were pretty solid.
    The challengesAbsolute purple circle company. some guys get away with anything and everything and some guys are under a microscope every second of the day no matter what you do its never good enough. They would give tradesman the flick first swing just because upper management said so while unskilled labourers in the circle would have their feet up most of the day. no job security, no future (unless you're in the circle.)
    5 people found this helpful
    5.0
    Recruitment Adviser
    Jul 2025
    Wangara WA 6065Less than 1 year in the role, current employee
    The Wangara Team have all been very welcoming and approachable upon commencement. Ideal office location for me as I live NOR. Overall structure of the business is good, with good policies and procedures in place.
    The good things- Office Location - Friendly colleagues - Approachable management - Work life Balance
    The challengesNothing to add currently.
    1.0
    Construction
    Feb 2025
    Barrow Island WA 6712Less than 1 year in the role, former employee
    Wouldn’t head back unless was completely desperate
    The good thingsPay day and fly out day
    The challengesThe pay is poor Management poor Will try rob you blind for your money/leave you’ve worked for Untrustworthy No morality
    2 people found this helpful
    1.0
    Advisor
    Feb 2025
    Barrow Island WA 67121 to 2 years in the role, former employee
    Worst company I have ever worked for - do not recommend unless you are desperate
    The good thingsThere are some great people (not management), the island is a nice place to work. Haven't got anything good to say about the company.
    The challengesManagement is appalling, the motto is "everyone is replaceable", terrible systems, shockingly high rate of safety incidents (several every week), extremely overworked, no support, zero appreciation. Never seen staff turnover so rapidly, its revolving doors, they lose really good people constantly.
    2 people found this helpful
    1.0
    Electrician
    Nov 2024
    Barrow Island WA 6712Less than 1 year in the role, former employee
    I would rather be broke and homeless than work for Ertech again.
    The good thingsThe end of the day or when you quit.
    The challengesGrossly unsafe workplace culture. Overreliance on doing buisness at the bar instead of the office.
    5 people found this helpful
    1.0
    Finance Role
    Oct 2024
    Malaga WA 60901 to 2 years in the role, former employee
    Challenging and unhappy. Poor supervisor.
    The good thingsNot much. Were some nice people
    The challengesVery negative and unapproving supervisor. Nothing was acceptable or good enough. Took credit for my process advancements and gave no feedback on things required for these advancements. Once complete got someone else to write exactly what I had done when I could have just made small changes to meet the needs. Went to HR for support and got very little help. No pay increase for team yet others in same department got rises (separate finance department teams).
    5 people found this helpful
    5.0
    Civil Labourer Entry Level
    Sep 2024
    Barrow Island WA 6712Less than 1 year in the role, former employee
    Have an ertech day bwi2024
    The good thingsLong days and big dinners
    The challengesHeat and dusty conditions but all round good company to get ya foot in the doir
    1.0
    Senior Project Engineer
    Aug 2022
    Less than 1 year in the role, former employee
    Awful. It was an awful experience.
    The good thingsThey have plants in the Office
    The challengesPoor communication. Abysmal management. Micro managed by the CEO. Untrustworthy. Zero Support. Under-funded projects. Zero Appreciation.
    10 people found this helpful
    1.0
    Civil Supervisor
    Mar 2020
    former employee
    Great crew But :)
    The good thingsHad a good crew to work with
    The challengesSenior management ( project mgr )
    4 people found this helpful
    5.0
    Business Intelligence Specialist
    Dec 2019
    1 to 2 years in the role, current employee
    Fast-paced, the great learning curve
    The good thingsThe overall the company has a very friendly and professional environment.
    The challengesNever faced difficulty in Ertech.
    2 people found this helpful
    5.0
    Anonymous
    Nov 2019
    5 to 6 years in the role, former employee
    A great company with great people that mean well. A typical civil contractor who grew quickly during the mining expansion but diod not have the maturity (systems, contract management etc) to cope with that line of work
    The good thingsThe connections I made, the experience I got
    The challengesThe ongoing reactive pressures
    2 people found this helpful
    3.0
    Operator
    Nov 2019
    Don’t do it .
    The good thingsWell I got paid and at termination time
    The challengesChallenging for superannuation and annual leave accrual , wording of contracts being part time only when working maximum hours.
    4 people found this helpful
    2.0
    Concreter
    Nov 2019
    Never again
    The good thingsAll the tools you needed for the job
    The challengesLow pay, no pay for travel to site, poor organisation
    7 people found this helpful
    4.0
    Anonymous
    Oct 2019
    3 to 4 years in the role, former employee
    Did wonders for my career
    The good thingsStrong team culture Some exceptional managers A lot of variety
    The challengesOne or two bad managers who are unfortunately very influential
    1 person found this helpful
    4.0
    Project Engineer
    Sep 2019
    1 to 2 years in the role
    Great company and great people, I’ve had great opportunities in the company.
    The good thingsGreat place to grow your career, great opportunities and great people in the company.
    The challengesInconsistencies in the systems used in Ertech.
    1.0
    operator
    Sep 2019
    Less than 1 year in the role, former employee
    I hated everyone I worked with
    The good thingsThere were no good things
    The challengesFinding a job once I finished
    5 people found this helpful
    1.0
    Mid level Supervision
    May 2019
    Join at your peril
    The good thingsPlenty of FIFO work available at the time
    The challengesVery clique based . Very resistant to new methods. Disconnected management , and not much scope for career progression.
    4 people found this helpful
    2.0
    ICT Support Officer
    May 2019
    1 to 2 years in the role
    Was a good place to work only because of the people that I worked with. As soon as another opportunity came up I left and have not looked back. There was no assistance with progressing in my career and nothing but broken promises whilst working there.
    The good thingsThe people that I worked with
    The challengesTrying to get any help progressing my career
    3 people found this helpful
    1.0
    Labourer/operator
    May 2019
    3 to 4 years in the role, former employee
    Laboure/operator
    The good thingsThe workers and locations of some jobs
    The challengesPoor planning Poor pay No future No training or chance to upskill More and more sub contractors being used over their own people
    3 people found this helpful
    4.0
    Grader Operator
    May 2019
    Less than 1 year in the role, former employee
    The people were great but the pay was not
    The good thingsThe people I worked with including management on site
    The challengesPay rate was the reason I left I would have stayed but no money
    1 person found this helpful
    1.0
    Civil Earthworks Operator
    May 2019
    Not great
    The good thingsIncome, don’t really have much good today about them
    The challengesPurple circle, very arrogant full time employees
    4 people found this helpful
    1.0
    Tradesman
    Apr 2019
    BWI Tradesman
    The good thingsWorking with the guys on the ground. Variety of work Flexibility of rosters.
    The challengesDealing with senior management. Cost plus contracts resulting in a lazy planning department. Expected to produce top shelf work with old rundown gear. Wages not reflecting tradesman and leading hand levels of experience.
    4 people found this helpful
    1.0
    HR
    Apr 2019
    Not good.
    The good thingsNice new offices, good colleagues
    The challengesPoor behavior from senior managers, very ego driven. Typical of many companies they said lots of good things around values but this did not translate to actions or behavior.
    4 people found this helpful
    2.0
    Machine Operator
    Feb 2018
    3 to 4 years in the role, former employee
    Sad to see a good company go south so drastically
    The good thingsSome staff there were good to work with.
    The challengesManagement expect loyalty yet its not returned.
    2 people found this helpful
    2.0
    Shift Supervisor
    Feb 2018
    Ok
    The good thingsJob diversity and people
    The challengesManagement and structure
    1 person found this helpful
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