truck driver

equipment operator

environmental manager

loader operator

laborer

Denali Water Solutions

You're dealing with human fecal matter to start with, it smells like a city block sized cat box that hasn't been changed in months, the building is falling apart for a few reasons. 
1 the manager is penny pinching for the company 
2 nobody wants to go there to fix anything due to the odor 
3 the environment is toxic to the structure and slowly eating it away.
As for the job, it's hot sweaty year round, equipment is falling apart due to the toxic environment, don't trust anyone some employees will use anything they can against you only to cover something they did since there's no real advancement, everyone is trained in all jobs and the only advances are in stabbing each other you can be sure that someone is talking about you when you're not around if it will make them look better.
Have to shower after each day in the building and you don't get paid for that time but you don't want to bring that stench into your car or home. Minimal training, you're left to find out on your own and as you go. Cant see in the building due to the thick fog but youre expected to work at a pace like you can see for miles.
Micro-managed and if you have the boss's focus he hounds you until he has something to reprimand you for and cna be ignorant in the process.
The only job security you have is nobody else wants to do the job.
If you're in dire need of a job while looking for something else and can deal with the feces of the job otherwise keep looking.

If you know how to run equipment there are so many other places to work.  You will be second guessed at every decision by people who don’t know how to operate equipment.  Your coworkers are mostly family members or best friends of the foreman.  Prepare to watch people drive wheel loaders and water trucks with their cell phones in their hands all day!  Everyone else will enjoy hour long breaks but not you, you aren’t related.  The supervisor will ask you advice and when he doesn’t like the answer he will just walk away from you in mid conversation.  At one point a line blew on a machine which was a hydraulic line and he didn’t believe me that it was a hydraulic line since it “wasn’t the right color”  it took 3 people to tell him that and he didn’t believe anyone until the mechanic showed up.  The foreman’s best friend was given an “assistant” position where he shows up when he wants, leaves when he wants, takes tools home that you will need.  You will enjoy his racist remarks and him telling you that this isn’t your country anymore and you need to learn Spanish.  Their pay is horrible and not in any way worth the issues you will have to tolerate

I ma roughly new here at denali I am not sure about this company. There are a lot of turn over with people here. In the time I have been here I have seen 3 or 4 quit. People in this company are really good about talking about others. I was hoping for more pay and better benefits but its not there. Hours are good over all but Im not sure if it is worth it. there seems to be a lot of drama through this company that ends up in every ones lap. I am not really sure who my direct boss is or who a manager is. Lots of people act like there in charge but I do not know who really is. I have heard several people talk about how they dont have a general manager but I was told the big guy in the shop was t he manager of the area. Now I am being told he is just the lead in the shop. There are several people who do seem to do anything but walk around the area. Not sure if they actually work here or not. It seems like all the information you get while working is just from other people working becuase people who are managers don't actually want to talk to the common workers and when they do they seem like it is a bothersome. 

I used to like the job but now I just get yelled at 24/7. They send people out of two for months on end without letting them go home for a day off. If you want to go home they get mad at you. There is no way to move up unless you worship every one that is considered worthy.  The pay is ok if you get and you get overtime, but its not worth being treated like your below scum. Managers watch it happen and dont do anything about it. IF multiple people complain about someone and how they treat others then  it is still ignored. It doesnt matter what you do, they wont address the problem or person. Lots of whispers through the company with no communication to others.  If you need ime off you almsot always get it unless they want you out of town then it dosent matter and they tell you too bad. We hear a lot of people getting told that they dont have a choice and have to be out of town for weeks or months on end no matter what or risk loosing thier job. 

It started out as a good place to work. I started out driving a tanker truck in mcminville Oregon. That was seasonal work. When the farmers no longer need us and it started to get to wet that job ended. I was then sent to Saint Helen’s Oregon. I didn’t like working there that well. The hours were way to early for my taste. Working at the recycling yard in Portland was a nightmare for me. Very little room to maneuver the truck and trailer around. Being a fairly new driver it was not an easy task to move the trailer into the spot to get it loaded in the dark. They kept cramming more and more junk in the way of the easy spots to get in and out of. PNW didn’t care to much about the drivers. Denali in it self is not a bad company but it’s structured very strange. My boss was running the company from his home in Arizona. Half the time you couldn’t reach him. I was thrown into the deep end of the pool to fast for the amount of experience I had. 

The Cleveland area managers will do anything to keep their quarterly bonuses and that includes throwing anyone under the bus in order to make their quota. With no site mechanics,  be ready to do your own wrenching & bring your own tools to do so. Be ready to work with unqualified help because they will take just about anyone off the street regardless of no experience. Be ready to do many non operator tasks including driving delivery trucks, working in the firewood yard, and anything the 2 area managers that run things think of. Lunches are unpaid & they are automatically taken out of the day's pay whether you get to take a lunch or not. You will be expected to drive to various sites ranging from south Akron to Wickliffe without compensation for travel time even when comutes are an hour each way depending on what site they stick you at on any given day. In the eyes of the area managers, you are just a body to put in the puzzle and are totally expendable. 

Your shift can start earliest as 12am Monday morning.  You pre trip your truck and make sure your pallet jack is charged before taking off.  They have a tablet in the truck but you will be using your own personal phone for work purposes as sending messages and taking pictures of each and every pick up.  You can have all the up to 24 stops to do in a single day.  Basically what you are doing is going around picking up organic waste. Like vegetables and fruit. You use an electric pallet jack to pick every thing up.  It's a messy and nasty job.  After you get done depending on what day it is you to go dump the waste you collected at a farm. It wears you out honestly.  The trucks are automatic and in and out facing cameras.  Inside facing cameras uses ai to track movement or what not.  You can make the money, honestly they should pay more for the work you do. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The company is constantly acquiring new companies and restructuring. No clear direction with plenty of layoffs. A great business model someday but right now they are very volatile. Not a company you want to roll the dice with currently.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No job security, no clear direction for the company, and many layoffs/firings

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Chaotic stressful and an overall unpleasant experience.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
it was fine for a while then my VP started to let me know about the bad management.

10/10 do not recommend. I became a Denali employee as part of an acquisition. Since then, my co-workers and I have experienced constant changes with little to no change management or clear direction, been stripped of our BCBS healthcare options and given a single, self-pay option with insane out-of-pocket costs and terrible claim management; management and staff are let go and often not replaced, their workloads being burdened on the employees who already have a full workload, there's horrendous communication between departments, opportunities for regular, performance-based pay increases are now non-existent, and Christmas bonuses were cancelled. Morale is at an all-time low, and there's no real end in sight. Save yourself the headache and avoid this dumpster fire.

The staff at Denali are great people. The job is at times difficult and dirty but for a short time only. If you like driving long distance this job consist of 400-500 miles per day. There is lots of alone time on the road due to the drop location.
The trucks are fairly new and the trailers have there uniqueness to them. It's never as smooth going as one thinks. But if your quick on the fly you figure them out with little loss of time. To dump the trailer can be a little daunting as it is lifted with a hydraulic piston that raises about thirty plus feet straight up in the air. Once you have a good feel for the process the checking in and out dumping included can be thirty minutes total.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 306 salaries reported	$27.84 per hour
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Loader operator 22 salaries reported	$23.48 per hour
Laborer 12 salaries reported	$31.25 per hour

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