Clean Harbors reviews

3.2

53% would recommend to a friend

(2,041 total reviews)

Michael L. Battles and Eric W. Gerstenberg

57% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Clean Harbors has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,041 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Clean Harbors employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Sep 23, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Met some very good and dedicated chemists. Customers are usually friendly and supportive of your efforts.

Cons

Low wages!!!! if you work harder to get a job done quickly you are only cutting your own neck because your paycheck will be smaller. Slow days means 2-4 hours of pay, not close to full time. Travel expenses not reimbursed. Bad management lies, lies, lies, and more lies

2.0
Sep 9, 2015

A Stepping Stone Unless

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Plenty of overtime when business is good, paid holidays, decent amount of paid vacation/sick time, lots of travel if you like that kind of work, mostly good people "in the trenches" with you, InSite or CleanPack programs are good gigs if you can get one, decent benefits package and life insurance/AD&D policies.

Cons

Unless you're one of the guys from Mass, this job will be a stepping stone to something else. Company can't make up their mind on a raise structure...when they don't have a pay freeze...and even then raises are extremely low, sometimes a full month without work depending on how good your branch's specialist is at his/her job, not a lot of work equals paychecks of $0 because benefits still get taken out, travel to out of town jobs has been 80-90% with little to no home life (work/life balance is non-existent, on-call 24/7 if you want to make enough to provide for your family), field services branch management incredibly immature and sexually crude, sometimes difficult to get proper PPE for jobs depending on your coordinator, a culture of "that injury happened at home, RIGHT?" when out in the field - gets strongly implied by field foremen that injuries equate termination from company, safety first until upper management isn't looking, approved time off requests thrown out the window if management decides they need you to work

3.0
Sep 5, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting work. You won't get rich, but you can make above average money if you are in sales or branch management.

Cons

Kept switching district managers and upper management. Last one was awful. Had an MBA, yet no business sense and no engagement with any employees. As with most of the other managers, they were an overpaid and over titled information mover. I did have a few more engaged managers, but the good ones for shuffled out of area. Most spent too much time trying to impress upper managers with ability to gather information. Most of the longer term lower level people were very valuable resources and performed well.

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