Fluor Aliso Viejo - Principal Mechanical Engineer Fluor Employee Review

4.0
Oct 26, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

When times are good, there is opportunity to grow as an engineer or branch into project management. Good people to work with. Supervisors care. Excellent pay.

Cons

Oil and gas industry is very slow right now. Going through downturn in personnel. When work is tight, the company puts priority on making money versus maybe earning less profit in order to win a project and keep people.

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Pros

Very transparent, room to grow.

Cons

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3.0
Feb 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good for starting and ending a career in engineering — solid training and plenty of software available. Good benefits and WLB.

Cons

Most projects are PreFEED, so lots of generic work, and they tend to overhire for these projects. It’s hard to make it to the middle ranks here because of the overhiring and layoff on contract loss cycle. The 980 schedule is actually meant to be a 10-hr day, as they began to emphasize the importance of taking lunch. TOWP and sick days are lumped together and earned on an accrued basis, so vacation days are valuable in the beginning. You can be paid your vacation days at the end, too, when your salary is higher… the consequence is that people come in sick all the time.

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