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Updated May 17, 2022
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- Current Employee★★★★★Featured Review
Pros
Great management and safety is ALWAY first! Opportunity for advancement and on the job training. Training, training, training! Lots of training.
Cons
Besides the slit under comparison, nothing! Pros definitely keep me and was worth the experience and opportunities!
Continue readingThank you for sharing....we do have an awesome team!
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
I had great co workers
Cons
Not really any cons for me besides pay
Clean Harbors Response
Thank you for your post. Glad to hear your experience has been positive thus far. We do have amazing employees!
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Challenging Job: Compensation and Benefits Not In Line with Responsibilities
RecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
This position allows for the learning of the intricacies of many different industries.
Cons
Long hours makes it difficult to maintain a healthy work home life balance. Branch operations, facility compliance, and DOT compliance is a full time job by itself. There is also a requirement to mange sales and achieve sales driven KPI's, manage service delivery, and customer satisfaction. Hiring for this industry is challenge leaving positions open for long periods of time. Shareholder value is prioritized over employee value/engagement.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Pros
Coworkers are truly family. Health and Safety is number one priority.
Cons
Women are not paid equally, no raises, bonus structure changes annually and is less lucrative and harder to attain each time, no recognition for achieving budgets, expected to do more for less pay while the company acquires a new competitor or two annually, frequent layoffs, the boots on the ground are disgruntled and are not paid adequately and can sour an entire crew and make routine business impossible, the customers needs and wants are not number one priority, it's the "clean harbors way or the highway".....
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Company has lots of resources and is becoming more progressive in its offerings (now has Employee Resource Groups, mentorship programs...etc.).
Cons
Communication between InSite group and upper management is very limited. Frustrating not to know what compensation is for other job titles...discourages internal job mobility.
Continue readingClean Harbors Response
Thank you for your post. Your observation is thoughtful and we are listening. The employee survey is a great platform to share your feedback, so make sure you participate. The deadline is 5/20.
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Excellent company, great people, and comparable benefits to other companies in this field.
Cons
A fast paced work environment where people accustomed to focusing on singular tasks for long durations may not be well adjusted.
Clean Harbors Response
Thank you so much for your review. Clean Harbors pride itself on having amazing employees! Good luck in your next endeavor.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Provides you with everything you need to excel.
Cons
Depends on your manager. If you have a good one, you’ll love the job.
Clean Harbors Response
Thank you for taking time to post and share how awesome it is to work at Clean Harbors! Our employee survey is on going and we want to hear from you. The feedback we receive will help managers and executives on how to improve the employee experience.
- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
My co-workers and my immediate supervisor were good and easy to get along with people.
Cons
The possibility of long, inconsistent hours. You would never know if you were going to have a free night or not. Their business model made performing contracted jobs seem rushed and below standard quality. Safety is not the number 1 concern no matter what you see, speed/money is number 1. With the environments you're placed in, you'd expect to be paid more.
Continue readingClean Harbors Response
Hello, we are sorry to hear your experience was not positive. Safety has been and always will be a top priority at Clean Harbors. Your feedback will be forwarded to the appropriate personnel. Thank you for posting.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Career development can be good
Cons
Working long days and occasional weekends
Clean Harbors Response
Thank you for your post. We appreciate your hard work! There is plenty of growth and development opportunities at CH. Please take the employee survey if you haven't done so. Its important to hear from the field so we can continue to improve our employee experience.
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
There’s alot of OT for employees but
Cons
sometimes you’re forced to work 90 plus hours a week and if you need a day off sometimes they punish you by having you stand by a day or 2 the next week
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Clean Harbors has an overall rating of 3.3 out of 5, based on over 1,421 reviews left anonymously by employees. 51% of employees would recommend working at Clean Harbors to a friend and 55% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has decreased by -3% over the last 12 months.
51% 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 3.2 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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