Chip Eng Seng Group
    (3 reviews)

    Company Profile

    Company overview

    Industry

    Construction

    Company size

    101-1,000

    Primary location

    171 Chin Swee Road #12-01 CES Centre Singapore 169877
    The history of Chip Eng Seng Group goes all the way back to the 1960s, when its founder, Mr Lim Tiam Seng started the business as a building subcontractor for conventional landed properties. With competitive pricing and quality work, the business grew and the company began taking on the role of a main contractor. In 1982, the company won its first Singapore Housing and Development Board (HDB) project as a main contractor. With that, the company continued to establish its position in HDB public housing construction. Over the years, it grew from strength to strength and diversified into the construction of private condominium and executive condominium projects, as well as engaged in precast fabrication.Leveraging on its accumulated experience and know-how, the Group scaled up the property value chain to undertake property development and investment in the 1990s. Today, its property development and investment portfolio spans shophouses, residential, commercial, industrial and mixed-use development projects. To further diversify its business, the Group made its foray into the hospitality industry in 2015 and the education sector in 2018. In 2019, the Group started its civil infrastructure business with acquisition of an established design and build construction service provider to augment its construction business. Currently, the Group has business presence in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand and the Maldives.

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    3.73 ratings in total
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    What’s it like working at Chip Eng Seng Group?

    AI summary of recent reviews

    Chip Eng Seng Group offers several positive aspects including good work-life balance, a stable work environment with supportive colleagues, and attractive financial benefits including performance-based bonuses. Employees particularly appreciate having supportive bosses across different project sites and the company's commitment to maintaining project continuity for its workforce.

    The main challenges stem from the company's nature as a traditional family business, with some resistance to change and difficulty in implementing new initiatives. Employees also note administrative challenges with extensive paperwork requirements, while staff turnover can affect project execution and knowledge transfer to newer team members.

    Recent reviews

    2.0
    HR executive
    Oct 2016
    1 to 2 years in the role, former employee
    Good stepping stone, but not much career progression for ambitious individuals
    The good thingsAble to leave work on time. Colleagues are nice and easy to work with. Quite a stable job and good working environment. Able to see monetary benefits if work hard and well as company provides pretty good bonuses.
    The challengesAs it is a family business, certain changes are hard to implement. Company is a very traditional Chinese family business and can be quite resistant to changes. Proposals are often rejected and can be quite demoralising if you are an individual who hope to see change in the company culture and work processes. There is also a lot of paperwork which I found rather redundant and causes too much filing to be done.
    4.0
    Site engineer
    Jul 2015
    1 to 2 years in the role, former employee
    Site engineer
    The good thingsFree to work and challenging to work
    The challengesNeed to work as much hard
    5.0
    Senior project engineer
    Jun 2015
    3 to 4 years in the role, current employee
    A1 company
    The good thingsWas lucky to have good bosses in every site I was assigned. Not bad also in terms of financial aspects. Ensures there will be enough projects for the workforce and not just chop heads unlike other A1 companies.
    The challengesJust hope that they will hold back the really good staff for the newbies to learn from them. A good reputable company but due to staff coming in and out, the projects also affected.
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