Clean Harbors reviews

3.2

54% would recommend to a friend

(2,043 total reviews)

Michael L. Battles and Eric W. Gerstenberg

57% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Clean Harbors has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,043 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
3.0
Nov 3, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, compensation decent, and lots of flexibility on how you manage the facility

Cons

Constant corporate initiatives jammed down your throat, expected to train employees on everything, and sign off on it. Very unrealistic considering the extremely high pace environment, time does not drag in fact it moves to fast. Branch constantly under staffed putting Manager in precarious positions to achieve budgets and maintain the ethical standards that they portray to have.

2.0
Sep 27, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I learned a lot working there for 14 years and it was a dependable paycheck. Benefits and time off were good.

Cons

From my experience company could care less about keeping, much less rewarding, good long time employees. After taking a position that turned out to not be a good fit for me I was laid off two months after telling my manager I would like to look for something else within the company. This is how they treated an employee of 14 years who had an exemplary record and always went above and beyond working 10 to 12 hour days on salary.

2.0
Sep 9, 2015

A Stepping Stone Unless

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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

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