Clean Harbors Reviews
Updated May 30, 2023
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- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
You'll drive a forklift
May 24, 2023 - In site Hazardous Waste Technician in Decatur, ALRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Great benefits. Good communication. Problems solved almost immediately every time
Cons
Never knew what to expect insite at a plant
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Company Lacks Salary Employee Progression
Apr 18, 2023 - CleanPack SpecialistRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Great local people, family culture, most part managers don’t micromanage, lots of OT and travel if wanted.
Cons
Company shows no structure for yearly increases. New people get hired on higher than tenured employees. Lack of resources makes your job more difficult than it needs. Headcount needs to grow for the amount of work being asked. Corporate initiatives lack forethought for different regions of the country. Upper management either ignore or don’t realize the time it takes to do the tasks required.
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Two Companies
Jan 18, 2023 - Environmental Health and Safety ManagerRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Benefits Stability Localized Management Training/ Job Related Licenses
Cons
Clean Harbors is split into two separate companies, there is the company that actually does the work and creates revenue. Then there is the company that provides oversite and scrutinizes the work of the first company. There are twice as many people employed in positions that will never create any revenue and will not interact with anyone in the labor force outside of a regional or branch manager. The second group drives the decision making and future planning for the business' model. This drives a disconnect with company policy verses the real world application and working environment. With the growing role of Electronic Logs, and its relation to Hours of Service; as well as the business opportunities and working environment in the Covid and Post-Covid world this has become a growing internal issue. Operations Mangers and Onsite Sales Professionals are responsible for all real world implementation of Health and Safety, Transportation Compliance and Business Development. If you are looking to work directly with field personnel in a role related to Health and Safety, Emergency Management, Trans Compliance or another auxiliary group apply for a position specifically mentioning OPERATIONS. If you are looking for an office position and or remote position apply for a position described in a more traditional manner to those titles. The company can also be very reluctant to accept internal applicants from other business lines into divergent lines, instead recruiting from external companies or just out right purchasing the company. They are however very supportive of direct vertical promotions with in the same line of buisness.
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Safety must be actively managed
May 28, 2023 - Clean Pack Chemist in Compton, CARecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
OT and steady work schedule.
Cons
Lack of Annual pay raises and employee recognition.
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Not horrible but not great
May 30, 2023 - Machine Operator in Ashland, KYRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Good money,fairly easy work depending on experience
Cons
Not home alot or home too much.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Enjoyed working with the other field technicians/drivers
Cons
No room for growth. Low pay.
- Former Employee★★★★★
Not a great company as they claim
May 4, 2023 - Anonymous Employee in Norwell, MARecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
When I started they were great and fair.
Cons
The higher you get within the company the quicker you figure out it’s a man’s world. Multiple colleges were terminated after calling the “anonymous” hotline voicing complaints through the years, clearly it’s not anonymous. I was never given a job title for the job I was doing.
Continue reading - Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Great opportunities but too many politics and management is terrible
Feb 10, 2023 - Environmental Technician in Deer Park, NYRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Plenty of opportunities to work in different parts of the country and even the world. Each different assignment can be hit or miss. You could go from manual labor in a plant somewhere in hot and humid Louisiana to cold Utah cleaning barges out of train carts. Expect the unexpected! Benefits are great. Starting pay is ok! Weekly pay plus perdiem $35 per day. Definitely gonna travel around that's a plus. Mostly by plane If it's in another state or drive with the crew you'll be with in vans or rental car.
Cons
Management racist, having to work with egomaniacal hot heads that are full of themselves because of a title and a $2 pay difference, no one wants to teach you anything so basically you'd have to get your leg cut off in the field to learn something, having to share rooms with other grown men, communication can be terrible to between management and workers , not enough work. Sometimes you'll work a two or three week assignment then come back home having to wait weeks or even almost a month to be sent back out.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Solid experience to obtain. Good training program to get people up to date with compliance and regulations
Cons
Poor pay and lack of recognition or value to people with degrees
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Good place to start
May 9, 2023 - Environmental Technician in East Chicago, INRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
A place to go to work.
Cons
They will send you to another shop to help out on your own vehicle anywhere under 75miles they don’t help.
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Clean Harbors has an overall rating of 3.3 out of 5, based on over 1,692 reviews left anonymously by employees. 54% of employees would recommend working at Clean Harbors to a friend and 58% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has improved by 2% over the last 12 months.
54% of Clean Harbors employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Clean Harbors 2.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.1 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Clean Harbors to be career development, coworkers, benefits and the cons to be senior leadership, management, compensation.
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