Nutrien reviews

It used to be a great place to work until 2015. The CEO of this company was new to Agrium and I think the CEO does not have right vision and honestly lacks “patience” as lots of his decision seems to be out of his gut feelings, I think he has been over his head by becoming CEO. Lots of good employee left. The line managers on my site were so afraid to the point that they wouldn’t hire DCS and E&I technicians for months ( worst cost saving strategy). Vice President and middle managers actually created a boys club and were buddies and were really scared to ask any money from president wholesale. I had heard from one of my previous colleagues that one of the plant manager was let go because of alcohol abuse at work (too much stress and lack of direction from executives and the CEO)

More work is being shoved to site level, yet Corporate seems to be bloated with people. With merger, there is chaos. The focus is achieving the $500 million merger savings promised to the stockholders. Seems as if people have been put into key positions that have no clue what they are supposed to do so the rest of us have to pitch in and do their job to keep things going. Many good people have been let go or like me choose to leave. Others are so busy trying to check off their merger "to do list" as soon as possible that important changes are poorly communicated. Instead of really taking the time to determine what was good about each legacy company and using it to make a great company, the Agrium practices are being adopted without any assessment. Pay raises were 3 months late and the lowest in my 20 year career. The timing was impeccable - a new office building in Saskatoon and the intent to buy the Calgary office building were announced at the same time people found out they were getting crappy raises.