outside sales representative

heavy equipment mechanic

equipment technician

inside sales representative

truck driver

H&E Rentals

Way to many politics and VP's who care about themselves.  Customers get terrible service and they nickel and dime them even when it's the branches own fault which usually it is. Pricing and services way high. Service managers may have the worst job since they only call and get calls for bad news. Fighting between what department gets coded $ to pad a number is a joke. Inconsistent shady stuff caught daily from close by branches. If you have one even 75 miles away you will find a sales rep, service manager or branch manager out on your job trying to undercut your own team, bad mouth the rep or other branch and try to replace the other branches equipment by just lowering the price when it's not their territory. The sticker on the machine is the same so how a VP can't hold accountability when it happens daily is exhausting. But if you have a location with no other locations close by, you can thrive, and run the business like your own and make some bonus $. they will only call you to check a box for a meeting or audit check. they will never really check unless you have a issue. and any small to large issue is on the Manager period, as it probably should be. But most  will try to snow ball his own team if he can to get out of it but in the end it'll catch up to the manager. It's never nobody else's fault, especially a VP... But if you can run solo location and can handle stress or muti task you are good. or if you actually have a region with all good leaders on the same page it can be a great place to work and do things well. It just won't be consistent with most regions. When you grow as fast as H&E has they can't manage it all so more layers would help, but please don't call them VP's. Maybe Junior VP's or mini VP's. JK. Best job in the company is the Director of Ops or Regional Ops manager jobs. Thats the good life without a worry in the world once you make it to the big time. Big titles with no reports or responsibility so its a good position. Surprised they aren't Vp's of box checking, then off to play some golf. All in all I liked parts of working here and hated parts. I love most of my so cal team and a few in the other markets but got an opportunity to do things elsewhere without the vp of facility's or vp of post it notes gouging me with something or needing to feel important like they know rental or equipment sales.

Pros: Hours are great, healthcare is ok, no work on weekends, no on call for shop guys, anyone with no experience can get any open position it seems, they'll feed you lunch and breakfast until you explode, if you're a field guy you can chill out and call swaps on everything, no need to clean your messes around the shop, you can run into the building or off of a trailer and it may not be reported, if you're a super chill kind of person this is your place to work.

Cons: Management has a "do as I say and not as i do" attitude, the "on job training" is non existent, the H&E standard is enforced and observed depending on how management "feels" day to day, the respect for management hardly exists due to the wishy washy behavior portrayed, instead of shutting down rumor mills management will participate, management has hired people who are not able and/or inexperienced causing more of a workload on its strained employees, management used fear mongering tactics against their employees, individual bad actors are "disciplined" by thrashing the group in "meetings" instead of the individual lowering moral and raising hostility amongst coworkers and causing confusion, management has openly degraded other branch/service managers openly in group settings, the turnover rate is very high here.

Overall management has expressed on multiple occasions your employment is not secure at H&E Equipment Services especially if there is any opposition of any kind. The Austin branch will challenge your standards and values. I would advise to steer far away from this place as it has left a bad impression of this industry as far as employment. There are better places to start off in this industry than here.

Built and maintained effective accounts receivable and cash flow monitoring systems. Processed an average of 300 invoices per month for a large-scale organization. Renegotiated payment terms with dozens of suppliers. Verified details of transactions, including funds received and total account balances. Opened and assigned new client accounts. Balanced batch summary reports for verification and approval. Conducted month end balance sheet reviews and reconciled any variances. Researched and resolved billing and invoice problems. Maintained detailed administrative and procedural processes to improve accuracy and efficiency. Verified and logged in deadlines for responding to daily inquiries. Completed and followed up on all registration and traffic documents. Coordinated rush orders and order changes. Acted as a liaison between logistics, carriers and customers. Produced bills of lading and updated shipment status information. Monitored shipments to guarantee on-time delivery. Oversaw scheduling for the day-to-day activities of 5 transportation employees.
Loaded products weighing up to 80,000 pounds onto trailers for delivery.
Completed 8 hour OSHA training in forklift and scissor lift.

Comments below are based on my experience at my branch only.

Reason to avoid if you're a true professional Salesperson:

1. Poorly maintained equipment-as a salesperson, I think you'd want the confidence that the product on the job is top notch. Not here!!

2. Sneaky salespeople who will sell accounts behind your back without your knowledge and management shrugs their shoulders. Keep in mind this is a position heavily reliant on commission. This, no matter how you define it or how management will provide illegitimate excuses, is stealing. Plain and simple. And it was allowed! I know from personal experience. 

3. Company is content with the competition rolling over them as the only thing that is of most importance is that the branch manager receives his quarterly profit bonus. Which is tied to how well costs are cut at the branch level. The salesperson's compensation? That's secondary.

4. Complete lack of professionalism at multiple levels, basically a "used car salesman" approach is what they look for.

Go work for a rental equipment competitor (if this is the industry you want to work in) as they ALL have better compensation plans in place.

The amount of turmoil, aggression and arrogance was astonishing to say the least. Not being able to service customers over petty reasons caused by midlevel managers leads to unstable work conditions and fear of termination.
Many of the smarter, driven and hard working employees are pushed aside order to promote people who are either friends or worst related to the mangers in power. Loyalty to company means nothing to the loyalty to the RVP in Charge. With large amounts of infighting between RVPs, managers and other high midlevel Executives. One has to ask, "who is running this operation?"
With the managers in constant conflict with each other over trivial inside company matters, the two people who suffer the most are the employees and customers.
With 85% one year turnover for branch managers and 80% turnover for inside sales men. There is always new problems coming from someone not understanding their job. 
THIS IS NOT A GOOD PLACE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO WORK.
with noncompete contracts lasting 1-3 years it is best to try other options before H&E.

As an experienced truck driver, in the beginning it  was a great company to work for , everyone respected and helped each other and  they kept the fleet in great condition. If there was a repair needed it was a priority and the defect was fixed quickly. However after a few years went by and a few good people left, it was obvious that the future was not gonna be so great. Towards the end of my time with the company, safety was preached as " top priority ", but when they actually had to spend money it seemed like the issue was just put off for as long as possible. Having to put up with racist remarks, lewd remarks and gestures, the verbal bashing of military service members, it became a toxic working environment and difficult to deal with. It's a shame what happened to a great place to work, but all it takes is the wrong people in the wrong positions to ruin a good thing. I would like to be optimistic and say things have probably improved a great deal since I left the company, however I doubt it from what I have heard.

I worked for H&E for just shy of 4 years. I worked from the bottom to a department manager/coordinator. I would say that it's a good company for anyone willing to work hard. They definitely promote based on performance (like all companies should). The management was like any other company, some good some bad. I will say though, the poor managers in this company don't last long.

The hours can be a bit much. I however never had an issue with it. Co-workers were all pretty good. Some were from a former company that H&E saved by buying it before they claimed bankruptcy (thus saving their jobs in my opinion) and hang on to the former companies way of doing things as a way to try to down play the good that is done at H&E and that gets old. Otherwise it really is a good environment to work in with great people to work with. I enjoyed it because I could just go to work put my head down, work my butt off and go home at the end of the day and be appreciated for it.

I worked for H&E for approx 1 month before throwing in the towel and moving along to another company. I worked at the Boise branch. I was hired on at the start of summer, in one of the fastest growing areas of the US. I struggled to get 40 hours a week. Their insurance was expensive as well, even more so if you have a spouse and/or children. While I was hired on as driver, I performed many other non driving tasks, such as helping out in the shop or washing returned equipment. I did not have a problem doing so, but this terminal seemed to have a real problem with renting equipment. I came to later find out they had the highest rates in the valley, and were not able to compete with other rental outfits. I found it to be poorly managed, especially when management sold more equipment off than rented. I felt that there was no reason to hire me, and felt like it was a waste of my time and effort. There wasn't enough work to justify hiring me as a second delivery driver. I do not know if they still have these problems,  I hope for the sake of everyone else that works there that they resolved them.

This workplace is truly awful—just plain terrible, absolutely horrible, undeniably bad. The environment is toxic—so toxic that it’s impossible to breathe without inhaling negativity. Management is disorganized, completely disorganized, utterly chaotic, and lacking any form of leadership. Communication? There is no communication. Miscommunication, poor communication, and zero communication reign supreme. The pay is low—unreasonably low, insultingly low, laughably low. Recognition doesn’t exist—no praise, no thanks, no acknowledgment. Morale is rock bottom—deep in the trenches, sunken, and crushed under the weight of burnout. The workload is overwhelming—excessive, unreasonable, and way too much. Policies are inconsistent—always changing, constantly shifting, and never clear. Coworkers are disengaged—unmotivated, uninterested, and just waiting to leave. Turnover is high—people come, people go, mostly go. If you're looking for stress, frustration, and utter dissatisfaction, this is the place—the worst place, the most unbearable place, the absolutely worst place to work.



Was sad to see the back ground of employees was not an issue. Appears to have a few currently in management with pretty harsh back ground, falling in the line of assault with a deadly weapon and grand theft. Was uncomfortable knowing this was a back ground of a manager that has the ability to make a good employees life miserable and get away with it.  People are fired to replace with friends without reguard for the lives of the ones who are loyal and hard working. I don't feel the corporate knows the caliber of the hiring of others in manament positions. If you are liked you are good, if you don't do as told you are told then you are dismissed without concern. Why use a back ground check when public can pull the court history is available. I found history and was disappointed that they pushed through and allowed then to make changes on others lives that Truly worked hard for the company in a whole. This is not the first time the Boise branch hired with such harsh back ground.

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