Have corporate terminate Orange HR Manager Lourdes Valdez. They need to really look into this woman's competentcies. Orange covers up for her because they pull her strings but this woman is very vindictive but she's also clueless. If Houston only knew. There are 3 there who are senior managers who should not be. If they were gone, I think some very good competent managers who truly care about employees, could step in and effectively lead and steer Orange is a good and honest direction.
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"Diversify the product. Not enough forward thinking leaders in the corporation. The next "thing" is clean renewable energies. "
You're right, and I've thought about that as well. Look at the classes of renewable energies.
*Solar and photovoltaics. Both are well outside of the engineering competency of NOV. We do have a lot of competent electrical engineers, but our cost structure isn't tuned toward being competitive in this arena.
*Wind. We don't have competency in advanced composites, aerodynamics, etc. Yes, we can build big stuff like this, and yes we did have Ameron building bases for wind turbines, but we lack the critical engineering expertise to compete effectively today or in the near future.
*Geothermal. We could get into this, but there just isn't a very large market for it today.
*Bioenergy. Nope...lack all expertise in this area.
*Hydroelectric. Well, PFD has some pump experience, but again we lack a lot of the turbine and motor experience.
*Ocean Energy. This is one place where we should be AGGRESSIVELY looking. We have tremendous subsea experience, lots of relevant engineering and production capabilities. etc. I wonder if this is being considered.
*Hydrogen and Fuel Cells. Nope...Don't have the engineering or manufacturing acumen to compete successfully.
So does that mean NOV just gives up and rides the long downslope of our product life cycle without a fight? Maybe...that seems to be the current plan. I can guarantee that what NOV does need to do is get far more efficient. Barrels produced per rig has increased almost exponentially over the past 4 years, and we need to size our company in line with that productivity growth. NOV will build fewer rigs, etc., but make each of those rigs far more efficient and automated. We are already doing this of course. But our cost structure isn't lined up well to support that strategy, so we have a painful downsizing and restructuring. Painful, but neede
Diversify the product. Not enough forward thinking leaders in the corporation. The next "thing" is clean renewable energies. They should invest in research & development & hire the best people. If they come up with the next technology, they make the money...simple as that. This goes against the shareholders first,l...customers, employees, social responsibility last mentality of modern corporations, sure would be nice if NOV (or anyone) bucked that trend.
Yes, I second alternating day/night shift for those in the shop, quality, etc.
If I could change one thing at NOV it would be to remove the uneducated unprofessional ghetto hood rats out of their manager positions - hire valid degreed college educated professionals to replace the ghetto hood rats and to fill new management positions.
Anonymous195684, yea right. Upper management is world class at promoting moronic middle management who can't even form proper sentences, no degrees and no education. My minion manager was promoted by her boss because she knows how to be a professional fake ass poser, a pathological liar, con artist, manipulative, underhanded, knows how to pit one person against another and knows how to stroke her boss's ego, laugh at his stupid jokes, and buys him gifts. She has no degree, no education, no management experience and she's ghetto trash. Promoting those who are world class at kissing ass, yes-men, family, friends and uneducated ghetto trash is a very common thing at NOV.
Oil is cyclic. I would expand NOV's portfolio on another similar industry that could use the skillset and expertise. Other Energy sectors won't be a bad choice. Aerospace is hot. Of course, on the management side, I would clean up the middle management, define performance metrics for departments as a team, rather than just as an individual, bring in transparency between managements and departments. Several shop facilities need a complete make-over, from Lean, Six-Sigma, Quality initiatives to process standardization, agility and more.
Mr. Know it all: you are wrong. NOV upper mgmt is world class. They kept hiring at the height of layoffs around Houston and the world. Would you have the balls to do that??
@Jesus: not just a college degree, some managerial experience and people skills also. Don't promote because you owe them a favor or they are your friend or family member, promote them because they are qualified skilled and experienced. Putting incompetent people in management positions is counterproductive and waste
Hire upper management with college degrees because half of these fools don't know what they're doing.
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Alternate days and nights for the blue-collar personnel. I've been working nights for three years, and until recently, i've averaged around 75 hours a week with only 25 days of a year... It's unhealthy!
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Too late for a change, sorry