Not Great - Not Awful. - Anonymous employee Nutrien Employee Review

2.0
3 Jan 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people you work with here make the job. Most of the people on the front lines genuinely do their best with what they're given for information, money, and time. If you end up working in a good group of people, this will be a great place to work - plain and simple. Pay and benefits are above the local average for the sites.

Cons

The culture of head office versus site employees is very different. Someone wouldn't even know that you were working for the same company if you described the corporate culture experience at each one. Pay and benefits are good but not great, and they certainly don't make up for the crappy work-life balance. Culturally there seems like a very rosy outlook at their head office, but that translates to a very different one when you start talking to employees who are at ground level. I was also very, very disappointed in how staff issues were handled. Poor performing employees were protected for far too long, and there was no real performance management being done until just recently. Safety is another major concern. Some are just doing it lip service, and the behaviours don't reflect the expectations. They also provide incentives for the number of hours without a lost time incident, but this means injuries have been covered up and not reported. Seems like a backwards system to me, and yet they're still getting rewarded for it. Everyone knows it's a joke, but if it gets them some free stuff they'll play along.

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5.0
30 May 2026
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Pros

Collaborative but individual work too. A lot of traveling to different sites

Cons

Individual work requires being open minded and doing own research or experimentation

2.0
17 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

For the area, the pay is decent.

Cons

Management that does not care about the people. No flexibility in working anywhere other than the plant. Outsiders hired before qualified employees. Another merger/selling on the horizon - memo sent out to employees and then they were told it would not happen in 2026. Big changes happen every year such as benefits reduced, people being moved from one position to the other, employees getting fired after one small mistake instead of a warning as it used to be, corporate people leaving/getting fired.

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