PRC has been notifying project (and I assume COE) staff of their position status (open or closed) for the ESP over the last two days via in person meeting with our supervisors. From what I can see, it is looking brutal... and no one seems to be safe- not even the PLT, unless it was a manager who recently started on the project. I do not know the exact percentage, but I would say 75 to 80 percent of our project's jobs are open now, even up to our Project Manager (and yes, my job is open also). With all the recent project cancellations, completions, etc. and tons of expats and must moves, this ESP will be nothing short of a bloodbath, sadly :(
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Some of the open positions will remain open if there isn't an urgent need so people coming off of projects in the fall will theoretically have a place to go.
Houston based- although technically an international project
What location is this at?
I recently attended a PRC info session. It sounds like 50% of positions were opened. 800 personnel in play for 600 positions. That was my understanding at least. Good luck to all. OP can you say what project you're on? Or at least what phase?
PRC should be hit hard. They are a bunch of pure process followers they know very little technically and cause tons of hold ups in getting work down by following a process that results in the same conclusion as what the technical sme's recommended a year earlier.
JDW, if you let your PDR know your "expression of interest" to be left standing, then here is what happens:
-You still go thru the ESP, but only if there are utterly no other preferred candidates and they have to resort to the "expressed interest" list will you be selected. If you are selected and you refuse, then you still get severance, because, well..you already volunteered to resign
- If you were to not have "expressed interest" to voluntary layoff and then you get selected for a position and refuse, you are left with no severance as it is deemed your choice to have left chevron and therefore not a layoff.
If you volunteer a layoff, you MAY be able to stay on in various roles for an extended period, depending when folks are available to fill new jobs, and your performance record. Again, I would suggest u talk to your PDR for more info.
PRC aggressively increased headcount. Lots of empire building and knee jerk reaction hiring to throw bodies at failing projects instead of focusing on poor decision quality. All that additional headcount will be undone in this wave and beta.
@jdw, if you are younger than 40 years of age, have already advertised to enough people at work that you want to leave or already have a job lined up, then your odds of being laid off just went down. Chevron management will likely keep you, assign you to a nowhere job and wait for you to quit. No severance package. If you keep everything to yourself and look optimistic at work, chances are they'll notify you you are left standing and you'll get your severance. Accept your job offer with the new employer, but don't actually start work until you are officially terminated from Chevron.
FZQ, I am trying to help report to the folks on this website, the realities of whats going on in different BUs- as opposed to speculation so that we can all be better informed- a win-win for all. It would be helpful to see the same info from others in various upstream BUs or projects so we can all be more informed about the process that is about to happen that can potentially devastate many families out there- mine included. That said, I do not expect I will have a job. To be honest, I prefer to keep my expectations low and expect a layoff. But if for some chance in hell I survive this ESP, then I figure it will be a windfall and not something expected.
I was notified as most of us were. We all know this was coming as there is no budget. I said to my supervisor, PRC had to be the worst hit? He said no solace in this, but the new Pennsyltucky BU is toast. So I guess it canow always be worse.
Correct it's an average everyone got the same email. And we all know 4,000 is a pipe dream. We will never know the real number but whoever is left, it will be like walking into a ghost town. After 9 months of interviews, I finally got a position that I will take. I asked to be left standing by choice. With my luck they will say no and I won't get severence. I am stating the obvious, you have to look outside oil and gas.
You sound like your are hopeful you will survive. You have a "Dumb and Dumber" chance!
I wanted to clarify on my estimate of 75 to 80 percent of our MCPs project staff's jobs being open. We got an email a few weeks ago (but offhand I do not recall if that email was just sent to PRC, or to Upstream in general) that 60 percent of jobs would be open. What I have found out is that the 60 percent figure stated is just an average of any major capital project, COE, or Upstream BU staff "in scope". Some MCPs, or BUs, or even units or departments within a BU may be in a position to where they have more or less critical staff at this point in time, obviously. So, some MCPs, BUs, etc will vary on their open positions (some may be more than 60 percent and some may be less in order to achieve the 60 percent average mentioned in the Corp sent email some or all of us in Upstream recieved. Just so happens, my particular project seems to be on the high side to make up for those projects with personnel deemed "critical", thus resulting in more open positions for us, unfortunately. Best of luck to all..!
Dead wood jack pot there!!
You didn't see that coming to PRC? With an oil glut and prices the lowest in 12 years, why would projects continue?