Pros
Great colleagues and work environment. Safety mindset is well embedded into the day to day. Great opportunity to learn from colleagues coming from different background for technical professionals. The scope of what can be learnt is practically limitless due to the size of the operations. Good for technical profressionnals willing to expiriment mining industry , or looking for projects in remote location/international mandates. Current programmes such as Everyday respect, to improve work culture, and RTSPS, to improve collaboration across all levels of the organisation, are great initiatives. There is change coming.
Cons
Upper management and middle management culture is toxic. There is a lack of accountability and limited vision of long term planning. There is no transparency around head count and how workload is being managed across different teams. Yearly objectives are vague and targets not adequately followed or explained. Functions and Operations do not have the same salary bands and pay scale for equivalent experience. This is not explained to ressources when they are hired. Most functions staff is outsourced to third partys with no clear management of KPIs relating to the service provided. Although this is common in large enterprise, the lack of accountability causes employees to feel exhausted and quit the organization. While the above does not directly impact the day to day, it disengages employees on the long term as they feel objectives and targets keeps changing year after year. There is also attrition due to retirement in some teams which is increasing the workload on other team members. There is no retirement planning, no knowledge transfer planned adequately, and no development plan properly being put in place and followed. People willing to work for RT should expect to focus on the day to day and use the experience gathered as a stepping stone for other opportunities with a better work culture and long term vision.