Mechanical Engineering jobs with overtime
Mechanical Engineering jobs with overtime
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Does anyone knows about any mechanical engineering concentration or jobs that has overtime? Meaning jobs where you will get overtime pay if you are working 40+ hours.
Thanks.
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My best year was just over 3000 hours (avg 10hr/day 6 days/week)
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What I like about contract time is that no one steal your time. Another name for "unpaid overtime" is "theft".
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Regarding the contract employment, I guess that's probably not available to some just starting out his career. Is it somewhat similar to consulting? Does working for consulting firm get you some overtime? How much is the average salary for contract employment.
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Anything with the words field service in the title will typically pay overtime. As was mentioned service for equipment in power plants, refineries, chem plants, etc.
Check out GE power, they are often looking for field service engineers, and they work lots of overtime and get paid for it.
My best year I doubled my salary on overtime, but I am happy I don't work that way anymore. It does wear on you after a while.
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In my present position, I can bill as many hours as I want for the client I am working for, until the money runs out. Remaining work has to done on my time, that is, for free. So if a subcontractor stiffs me and delivers something 1 yr late (on a 2 yr contract), and I need the subcontractor's input to deliver the Contract Deliverables (primarily the final report), I have to work for free to finish the contract.
I would be interested in knowing: what's worse? a company demanding you work free overtime, or you walking away from the job before finishing because you refuse to work for free?
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How many other professionals will work for free or even be expected to?
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Specifically what I'm talking about is when a company hires an engineer as an exempt employee knowing full well they'll expect 60 or 70 hours. That's at least 50% extra work for 0% pay over the 40 hours they ostensibly hired you for. I've been in salaried situations where that happened and ended up making less per hour than the secretary.
I understand that a salaried position requires some extra time here and there, and that's fine. That's precisely what the slightly higher pay for a salaried position is meant to buy. However, too many companies see it as an invitation to get something for nothing.
Having been screwed royally by a company through working 60 hours a week with the promise of bonuses and raises that evaporated, then getting called on the carpet for being a half hour late, I have no problem whatsoever giving a company the business when it comes to excessive unpaid overtime.
On the other hand, as a green engineer, it's much harder to do that because there are many more of them than there are of me.
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When the architects, designers, and others decided that it was worth it professionally and economically to accept a given level of income regardless of the effort required.
I don't work for an outfit that "demands" O/T, but it is a part of the business sometimes and I accept it. I usually don't work more than 45 total hours a week, but sometimes it is 50+. When the client requests a short schedule and is willing to pay O/T to accomplish it, we get straight time for O/T.
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I've worked on big defense projects where we were told to only put 40 hours on our time sheet but in fact we were working 50+ hours a week. The problem there is like TheTick stated it's theft and it helped the managers get their milestone bonus money. Something is wrong with this picture. I do my fair share of unpaid OT but I make sure I get those hours back when it's slow.
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When we started doing it for free.
It ain't slavery. We could have walked away, but we didn't. There's nobody else to blame.
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That's right! If any of you are in a company that abuses exempt w/o OT employees, start looking for something else! Don't let it be acceptable! If they can screw you blind like that, what do you think your prospects are when someone who's cheaper or works longer hours comes along? That's right, you might as well kiss those promotions goodbye, and you may even get a pink slip.
Just think, you could find somewhere on your own terms and timetable that pays its employees for every hour they work, take a 10% cut in base pay to go work there and, let's face it, still work the 50 or so hours you normally would, because that's who we are. Think how much better off you'd be then.
Punish those companies who choose to abuse their employees.
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My experience with overtime not being paid was with smaller companies.
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3 jobs ago the owner/boss "offered" me a salaried position, where overtime would be swapped for comp time. I am not the type to quibble over an hour or two here or there, or object to doint what it takes to help a customer, nor do I spend time surfing or chatting about football, but I knew this guy would be conveniently ignoring the 60 hour weeks and expecting 40.01 hours on the slow weeks (*). I figured the time clock was the only way to keep things remotely fair, so I declined the "offer".
(*) As you might expect, his personal and business practices were similar. A friend who worked in the shop told me the Boss had him remove the remaining washer fluid from a company van before trading it in. To quote the late great Moms Mabley...”don’t say nothin’ about the dead, unless you can say somethin’ good.....he’s dead....good!”
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with your kind of attitude sure thing I would not like to work for you.
the problem with some employers is that they think they make you a favour by giving you a job. Most of the time in such cases turns out the job was no worth 2c in the first place......
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I guess what I'm saying is that if you enjoy what you do, get paid well, then overtime is not really slavery, or free work, it's volunteering to want to finish a job your enjoying.
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If you know that your last company made you work overtime and didn't pay you for it, figure it into your target salary. If you are at a job right now that you are getting underpaid, and are working extra hours, then look for a new job. If you are a derelict and neglect to consider these options, then you don't deserve to get paid. If you don't shoot you don't score in this case. So put together a spreadsheet, figure in what your salary would be in a 40hr week, find the hourly pay, multiply by (40+overtime hrs)/week = Asking salary. Simple
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with your kind of attitude sure thing I would not like to work for you.
the problem with some employers is that they think they make you a favour by giving you a job. Most of the time in such cases turns out the job was no worth 2c in the first place......"
I think you might have mised the point I was trying to make, starting out in any job / field there is a lot more important things than worrying about O/T - sure it would be part of any interview and consideration on your part as well as the the prospective employer and would or should form part of the salary/conditions negotiations.
Or do you feel you should go into the any interview with the sole aim as to how much you can earn? "I thing your job really suits me - it pays a lot of wages and overtime - that's what I want, etc etc - -"
For me as an interviewer, I would be looking for someone who was interested in the position, willing to put in some effort, was interested in furthering their knowledge and position in the company and who could give a commitment to long term employment, for which I would be prepared to offer a fair and reasonable return (including O/T as and when appropriate)
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Or just maybe there is too much work, or the company employs half the number of engineers required to do the job properly. Many of us are faced with a choice like this: cut corners (people die); work yourself into an early grave (you die); do it right and bring it in late (the company dies).
What industry are you in? It must be great to have enough staff, achievable deadlines, only a couple of hours o/t! Where do I apply?
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