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Career Path => Outages => Topic started by: Bern Finnigan on Jan 03, 2013, 02:30

Title: Newbie Question about Completion Bonuses
Post by: Bern Finnigan on Jan 03, 2013, 02:30
Do all plants offer completion bonuses for a completed outage?  No matter what subcontractor you're working for?   
(Specifically DZ Atlantic at Perry Nuclear in Ohio)
Title: Re: Newbie Question about Completion Bonuses
Post by: GLW on Jan 03, 2013, 02:35
no
Title: Re: Newbie Question about Completion Bonuses
Post by: Bern Finnigan on Jan 03, 2013, 08:25
Well thats distressing  :-\
Better start comparison shopping
Title: Re: Newbie Question about Completion Bonuses
Post by: Content1 on Jan 04, 2013, 12:43
Do all plants offer completion bonuses for a completed outage?  No matter what subcontractor you're working for?   
(Specifically DZ Atlantic at Perry Nuclear in Ohio)

You recruiter tells you if they have a bonus.  For example, San Onofre doesn't.  Most places only give bonuses to hp's.
Some bonuses are better then others.
Title: Re: Newbie Question about Completion Bonuses
Post by: Old HP on Jan 04, 2013, 09:00
Interesting question for a newbie, I have not completed an outage and I want a bonus. Maybe the bonus should be a percentage multiplier of the number of outages the worker has completed. (20 outages x .5% = 10% bonus). Better yet ( 100 outages x 1% = 100% bonus)!!!!!!
Title: Re: Newbie Question about Completion Bonuses
Post by: GLW on Jan 04, 2013, 09:19
Interesting question for a newbie, I have not completed an outage and I want a bonus. Maybe the bonus should be a percentage multiplier of the number of outages the worker has completed. (20 outages x .5% = 10% bonus). Better yet ( 100 outages x 1% = 100% bonus)!!!!!!

Oh stop it!!!!!

he's just asking,... :P ;) :) 8)
Title: Re: Newbie Question about Completion Bonuses
Post by: hamsamich on Jan 04, 2013, 10:30
Many times completion bonuses are given because the outage can't staff OR they are incorporated into the payrate, which means you aren't really getting more money, just less money upfront.  Bonuses aren't always good.  They may just be a portion lopped off your hourly wage tied to other items you have little control over.  I'd rather have my full hourly wage now than a couple dollars an hour of it coming at a later date 2 companies see fit.
Title: Re: Newbie Question about Completion Bonuses
Post by: Chimera on Jan 04, 2013, 10:38
Interesting question for a newbie, I have not completed an outage and I want a bonus. Maybe the bonus should be a percentage multiplier of the number of outages the worker has completed. (20 outages x .5% = 10% bonus). Better yet ( 100 outages x 1% = 100% bonus)!!!!!!

While I'm sure your response was meant "tongue in cheek", some utilities do compound their bonuses as you complete successive outages.  Exelon has done this in the past.  It's their way of ensuring their outages are manned with people who are already trained within their system.
Title: Re: Newbie Question about Completion Bonuses
Post by: Bern Finnigan on Jan 04, 2013, 12:57
Interesting question for a newbie, I have not completed an outage and I want a bonus. Maybe the bonus should be a percentage multiplier of the number of outages the worker has completed. (20 outages x .5% = 10% bonus). Better yet ( 100 outages x 1% = 100% bonus)!!!!!!

An outage newbie perhaps, but I never said it was my FIRST outage   ;)
Just trying to figure out if I got spoiled at the place that I did finish and did get a bonus from, as now I get to play the field a bit more.
Title: Re: Newbie Question about Completion Bonuses
Post by: macgator on Jan 04, 2013, 01:37
Hey Bernie, the best advice I can give you is to find a staffing company that has plenty of work and maintain a relationship with a recruiter. You may have to go to some difficult outages at first but it will pay off in the long term. Do a good job and keep submitting resumes for house positions, you are a good tech and you will succeed. We won't be hiring until late 2014. Good Luck.
Walter MacMillan @ MOX
Title: Re: Newbie Question about Completion Bonuses
Post by: SloGlo on Jan 04, 2013, 02:36
An outage newbie perhaps, but I never said it was my FIRST outage   ;)
Just trying to figure out if I got spoiled at the place that I did finish and did get a bonus from, as now I get to play the field a bit more.
now yore catching on.  get that bonus agreement awl hammered out before you leave the house two go too the job.