Workplace reviews and discussion: 帆宣系統科技股份有限公司

M5 Engineering Division

Position: Engineer

Responsibilities: Site supervision, quantity takeoffs, contractor management, progress valuation, converting quotations into negotiated prices, cost estimation, clarifying design drawings

1. No clocking in required

2. Company mobile phone, company laptop, and company vehicle available for use

3. Overtime is always paid, calculated according to the Labor Standards Act

4. Fully implements the one fixed day off and one flexible rest day policy; overtime worked on statutory rest days is compensated hour-for-hour

5. Petty cash is available for necessary site items and stationery; expenses can be submitted for reimbursement

6. Transfers include full subsidies for fuel and high-speed rail, as well as an out-of-town allowance

7. The company has no engineering culture: drinking, smoking, betel nut chewing, gambling, and hostess clubs—it does not feel like an engineering company

1. Engineering is business-oriented. Sales managers recklessly quote low prices to win projects; if execution is unworkable or loses money, it is all considered the engineering PM’s fault.

2. Engineers provide one-stop service and oversee multiple systems at once. Regardless of whether you know how to do something, you are expected to handle it, and sometimes you also have to take on occupational safety duties.

3. “One-stop service” means negotiating contractor quotations, clarifying schematic drawings produced by the Design Department, taking responsibility when the Procurement Department purchases the wrong materials, and executing site engineering work.

4. A PM may be responsible for multiple plants alone. If there is no staff underneath you, you do everything yourself, along with tasks such as cost estimation. When a project succeeds, the sales manager gets the credit; when it fails, it is because you, the PM, estimated costs poorly or managed poorly.

5. As-built documents, submission documents, quotation and negotiation documents, quality-control documents, drawing documents, and even occupational safety documents are all your responsibility.

6. The process for paying contractors is excessively lengthy, and payments are withheld for a long time. Sometimes you are even deceived into starting work without being given a PO; when problems arise, it is also the engineer’s responsibility.

7. There are many “royal contractors” who are difficult to manage. No matter how poorly they perform, they still have to be paid. If the owner cannot accept the work and refuses to pay, you are the one who has to write the report.

8. The year-end bonus is not substantial, and neither are the mid-year bonuses.

9. The company dormitories are terrible, and two people share one room, unless it is a relatively better project dormitory—that is, one paid for with project funds.

10. There is a charge to stay in the company dormitory, and utilities also cost money. The longer your seniority, the more you are charged.