Culture

ES3 is ever diligent to promote a positive work environment for staff, team members, and customers. We provide only the most modern work equipment and facilities to ensure an effective and productive environment. Our office facilities are designed to provide private and collaborative work space, as well as lounging areas designed to facilitate a congenial and pleasant atmosphere. For many people, the work environment plays a key role in their overall health, well being, and personal satisfaction which spills over to affect their families, our customers, and the community at large. As such, we at ES3 work to engage staff, families, customers, and the community in the most positive ways possible.

Company Festivities

ES3 hosts a number of social events for our staff and their families and friends. These include our now legendary holiday party and ski retreat, summer amusement park picnic day, and other events. Staff who can enjoy each other’s company can work more productively together. Some of our greatest fun occurs each year when our haunted Material R&D Center hosts a halloween party for children of all ages.

ES3 supervisors regularly schedule barbecues, catered lunches, tech talks, and outings for their groups / divisions. These group events keep staff connected and provide a good venue to discuss company and community happenings. It fosters a cooperative and happy work culture.

20^th Anniversary Celebration

In February 2020, ES3 hosted a 20^th Anniversary celebratory weekend. Our focus was gratitude for all who make our success possible. More than 450 attended. Our timing could not have been better. The COVID lockdown had not yet occurred so we did not have to cancel what took us a year to plan. No one in attendance had COVID so we didn’t unwittingly become a super-spreader event. Our celebratory weekend included a company picnic day at the San Diego Zoo and a private cocktail party and dinner gala on the deck of USS Midway Museum in San Diego Bay. ES3 friends and families bonded while celebrating our collective good fortune. The ES3 workforce works well together because we enjoy working together.

25^th Anniversary Extravaganza

In July 2025, ES3 celebrated our 25^th year in business. Our theme for the weekend was Pandas and Padres. Events included a day at the San Diego Zoo with its newly arrived Pandas, a Padres evening game in a reserved section atop the stadium’s Western Metal Supply Co roof, and an ES3 San Diego Office open house with an outdoor activities-filled luncheon. The goal for the weekend was to celebrate our collective good fortune and invigorate the camaraderie we will need to keep ES3 going for another 25 years and more! Many thanks to the more than 650 ES3 staff, friends, and families who attended. The ES3 party committee is already at work trying to figure how we might possibly top this event for our 30^th anniversary celebration.

ES3 Progeny Internship Program

ES3 offers summer internships to the children of ES3 current staff. It makes for a wonderfully fun summer as each of our facilities is infused with young high-school and college aged workers. Our goal is two-fold. First, we want to give existing ES3 staff the opportunity to offer their children a good early work experience and enjoy the presence of their loved ones in the summer work environment. Second, we hope to entice more young people towards the study of math, science, engineering, and technology–fields which are intellectually, socially, and financially very rewarding. Since 2010, ES3 has mentored from 10 to 35 summer interns each year at our various locations. We hope some have been inspired to pursue academic coursework and professions in the sciences. The ES3 Progeny Internship Program has become one of ES3’s more popular benefits. Staff overwhelmingly enjoy the experience of having their children (and their collegues’ children) spend a summer working and learning at ES3.

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