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The HEPACO Buffalo office is small, very unorganized & unprofessional, and generally miserable.

Most of the work is muscle/labor "environmental" work; tank cleaning, spill cleanup, haz & non haz, etc.
The company is a 24-hour response company. 24 hours means 24 hours for each any every employee. It is not uncommon to be called out in the middle of the night and stay out for well over 18 hours.

Traveling has become mandatory, with no negotiation, and is frequent due to lack of work at the home office, but you'll be told it's not during your interview. The Buffalo office is subjected to spill response all over the Northeast.

Morale within the office is exceptionally low, especially from the laborer position. Workers receive relatively low wages, and are often subject to harmful, and toxic chemicals under poor working conditions.

Safety is preached within the company. However, when a spill response comes in, safety generally goes out the window. Management does not care if you work over 24/36/48, etc. hours straight, as long as they are making money. Safety is important until profit is threatened.

Most of the equipment does not work, which makes the jobs harder to accomplish. Management does not like spending money to fix necessary equipment.

Management has been known to cut hours from workers' paychecks to save profit.

Management plays favorites with workers, and chooses to ridicule/belittle those they are not in favor of, rather than teach and correct. Management is also known to have explosive tempers.

Overall not an enjoyable place to work. Very high turnover rate. High risk, low reward. Would not recommend applying here unless absolutely desperate.

The HEPACO Pittsburgh office is small, somewhat unorganized &unprofessional, and generally miserable.

Most of the work is muscle/labor  "environmental" work; tank cleaning, spill cleanup, haz & non haz, etc. 
The company is a 24-hour response company. 24 hours means 24 hours for each any every employee. It is not uncommon to be called out in the middle of the night and stay out for well over 18 hours. 

Traveling is expected, and can be frequent. The Pittsburgh office is subjected to spill response all over the Northeast. 

Morale within the office is exceptionally low, especially from the laborer position. Workers receive relatively low wages, and are often subject to harmful, and toxic chemicals under poor working conditions.

Safety is preached within the company. However, when a spill response comes in, safety generally goes out the window. Management does not care if you work over 24/36/48, etc. hours straight, as long as they are making money. Safety is important until profit is threatened. 

Most of the equipment does not work, which makes the jobs harder to accomplish. Management does not like spending money to fix necessary equipment.

Management has been known to cut hours from workers' paychecks to save profit. 
 
Management plays favorites with workers, and chooses to ridicule/belittle those they are not in favor of, rather than teach and correct. Management is also known to have explosive tempers. 

Overall not an enjoyable place to work. Very high turnover rate. High risk, low reward. Would not recommend applying here unless absolutely desperate.

The services this companied offered and their multiple branch offices was great to discuss with prospective clients. They are branded primarily as a spill response company so consequently they are reactive and not proactive particularly with respect to sales and marketing. 

They are very rigid in their communication protocol so very little is discussed between lower and upper level management. The  corporate business development director and I met face-to-face only twice in the nearly 4 years I was with the company. 

The opportunity to participate in various LEPC's was encouraged and did provide great brand awareness. As with many environmental and industrial services organizations, the project managers are expected to perform the business development tasks for the branch office.
 
Very myopic with respect to social media and modern marketing.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working with a great team that is always willing to help one another, teach one another, and build on our knowledge together. It was a great job to have until they were taken over or bought out and it turned a family into a business not interested in getting things done right the first tie and the quality but rather than speed.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Letting work go that isn’t ready or up to your standards.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Started out like a family that works as a team throughout the entire company but turned into a different type environment.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Focused and happy with a good morning message that greets you every day and checks in to make sure we don’t need any help or anything. It used to be amazing.

It might not be all branches but the Pittsburgh office is a terrible place to work.  First off, the word "Environmental" does not reflect the work you do.  You are just a laborer.  Second, having a college degree meant nothing to the company, I was put down as a laborer and I had more experience in the field than the people above me, yet I was looked down upon.  They lied to me promising me a job to get me on board then never gave me that position.  Almost all of the equipment didn't work so often it was hard to get a job done.  They are extremely cheap and take every shortcut to get the job done.  Management there is terrible with communicating and certain workers get privileges that others don't due to their relationship with the manager.  There was no chance of going up the company ladder. They would cut out hours on paychecks to save themselves money.  It was just the worst job experience I have had

Some of the finest coworkers to work with.
Get to work with heavy machinery, drive boats 
Management takes micromanaging to a new level. 
Long hours / abysmal conditions 
Inadequate compensation for knowledgeable and experienced people
Little room for advancement 
Health insurance is deplorable 
No on call pay, required to be on call
Lots of travel 
Little room for work life balance 
Not family or relationship friendly
Personnel are an expendable asset assigned number that can be let go at anytime on a whim. 

Its a great place to start in field and learn while making good money.  However you are tied to job with long hours away from home due to travel.  Pay was decent due to the surplus of overtime required.  You are always on call and are required to travel for sometimes weeks at a time.  Hard to balance personal life.  Difficult to move up unless position is needed and pay increase is nonexistent unless you know the right people.  There was a lot of favoritism with certain individuals because of ties with managers.  Great place to gain experience in the field and learn the industry.

This review is largely based on my branch, and could differ at other locations/ regions. 

Management is good about listening to criticism and adapting to new situations, but sometimes the nature of the work will force odd work times/ duties. Hepaco acts in a first response capacity, so if something happens at 2am, you're working at 2am. This is most notable when you're on-call (every couple weeks for field crews, every couple months for PMs).  Work loads can get extreme, but are usually based on outside factors (loss of employees, large emergency jobs, etc.)

Pay and bonuses are good, but pay increases are few and far between. I've seen some go 2+ years without any base pay increase. 

They lie to you the job postings are not even close to what you will be doing you will not be operating equipment if a mini excavator shows up a supervisor or Forman or one of their buddies or family members same with CDL drivers and they are not good operators or drivers 90% percent of the time you will be doing labor work Savannah Georgia is the worst all-around all family members there or buddy's the very toxic environment in a high-stress job could be better they run you off no matter what and they take all the credit to tell upper management you quit or you didn't work out there are better environmental Companys that treats you like a human being and care about you and don't make you feel like your useless.

What is the best part of working at the company?
On call 24/7.  They say rotating well that can’t happen when they can’t  keep employees,equipment is always broke ,Managers are self serving.so if you like being mistreated and don’t like seeing your family this is the place for you

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Going to the job and getting to work with people who won’t do there job

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Terrible,upper management needs to respect the people who come to work everyday 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressed and stressed  
Get to a job site and have to deal with bad equipment and lazy technicians

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