associate

inside sales representative

outside sales representative

welder

branch manager

MASTER HALCO

I tried on a lot of hats working for MH. My most recent challenge was performing as a Territory Manager. A typical day for me is being on the road and completing 6-10 sales stops to conduct face to face meeting with our clients. Some calls are scheduled and some are walk in calls while in the area. The most enjoyable part of the job is the ease in creating relationships with the existing clients and discovering ways to do more business together. Also the challenge of regaining our lost clients is rewarding. MH clients are usually honest and hardworking people who have been in fencing or construction all their life. The hardest part is keeping up with your sales duties while still maintaining spreadsheets, mileage logs, CRM entries, expense reports and more spreadsheets to keep track of other spreadsheets. Co-Workers are hardworking as well. During my 12 years at MH I drove forklifts, learned how to weld, build a fence, build a gate, how to conduct a behavioral based interview to understanding how budgets work, but most importantly, I learned how to professionally create business for the company by offering superior customer service. I also learned to be successful in a business, I need to make it my business to know everything about it, hence why I wore so many hats along my career with MH.

Manufacturing department in Dallas TX is the most dirty and unsafe company that I ever worked.
Machines and working areas are never maintained for cleanness and safe conditions. Fork lifters are driven at more than 20 miles per hour with forks risen at 4 feet high. They use forward - reverse as brake.
They have not safety program and, including managers, they never use LOTO when working on electric or mechanic equipment. Operators and maintenance make machine settings adjustments with machine running and they are fired if they get hurt. Electric control panels using 480 V are kept open at all times. Other high voltage electric control panels are blocked at all time by any kind of material.They do not follow OSHA rules.
Environment is hot and cold and have a high volume of chemicals in the atmosphere with no forced ventilation or exhausting system. 
They have dust collectors but they keep it off due the lack of knowledge for what this equipment is good for.
Restrooms and lunch area are dirty and have a terrible odor and have not people in charge to clean.
Worse yet is the poor management and their lack of experience and favoritism towards ethnicity. Managers curse their people in front of everyone.
Managers are driven by opinions of employees with more seniority and take actions based on them.

A day at Master Halco is different every day. On a daily basis I would 
start off at 7 a.m covering customer will calls till 9:30 a.m as the 2nd shift would arrive. Throughout this process I would Unload LTL Shipments or receive truck loads of incoming inventory.From there I would work in Receiving as my Job title Receiving Specialist Printing Purchased Orders via J D Edwards. Throughout the day continuing working on customer based will calls. As the day progressed I would Pick & Pull orders getting Master Halcos Fitting orders processed for outbound trucks to be loaded. Finishing up the day loading trucks for customer deliveries. I learned a lot of forklift skills at this company like loading flat racks and containers being shipped out internationally. The management was very good as it often changed Branch Mangers often. My Superintendent was Excellent guiding his understaffed hands on employees. My co-workers were the best workers as we handled this company short handed employees.

I was thrown to the wolves when I first started.  There was no training in place except for a few written cheat sheets. After two days, I was told you are not only going to start answering the phones, you are to be the main person answering calls, meaning you will take 50-60 calls a day despite knowing very little about the company or its products.  

This is an intensely stressful environment, made worse when your co-workers didn't seem to want you around.  I worked with long-time veterans and they didn't even deem me necessary to communicate with.  Add in a brand new branch manager who has yet to develop people skills, and you have a recipe for disaster.

All in all, this is a job that's going to affect your physical and mental health.  Even the veterans there are stressed to the max.

My advice:  go elsewhere - this just isn't worth it.  I quit a few days ago and my health is much better now.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Great training and culture. You are a valued team member from day 1.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Summer season is very busy and the workload is challenging to keep up with

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Great fun-loving and light-hearted culture. There can be challenges with communication between departments, though. Inside sales could be better at communicating with the outside/ warehouse department to have ample and realistic lead-time in advance of large customer orders

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A yard associate's typical day would consist of preparing customer orders and loading their vehicles throughout the day. Also I would be unloading incoming material trucks, putting materials in their proper storage place and assisting with preparing/ staging orders/ loading of outbound delivery trucks.

I'm still interviewing, however the interview process thus far has been pleasant and not stressful at all. I've interviewed at dozens of companies and have had a couple offers. I'm waiting to meet the regional manager before I accept any other offers as Master Halco would be my first choice. In short, the manager in El Cajon was very friendly and made me feel comfortable in the interview. The regional manager was quite pleasant to speak to as well. I can tell he enjoys his job and takes the hiring process seriously. I gather both people I interviewed with genuinely strive to make the company the best place to work and the number 1 wholesale fencing company in the nation. I hope I get the position. I know I would thrive. I'd Hopefully advance up the ladder at some point too. With 50 locations that could be a reality down the road.

Leadership does not exist unless Micro Management is your thing! PP&E is OPTIONAl. Items such as First aid kids and eye wash stations are out of date. The weld shop is colocated with half the shop full of lumber. As a Welder I am educated on processes and welding Galvenized metal there are precautions you must take to protect yourself I was told to side  step all that and just get it done! This place is absolutely a joke when it comes to making sure the employee is safe. They dont care about efficiency just production! This place sucks to work at if they had the right Branch Manager and right Yard lead it could be an awsome place to work. I have never wasted so much time time in my life ! I highly recommend giving this place a pass!

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing mangers where racist and rude they don't give more training so you can get a better position like there suppose to the bring in friends and family of General Mangers from other locations 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not being treated like your bringing good business when your adding value to the company 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It ok Master Halco is a good company you get help other people it's just they where hiring managers with no experience and where not hiring from with in the company like they said they were 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Could have been better but they worked me  4  years with out training me for outside sells like I wanted and asked

Welding galvanized steel without adequate and sometimes zero ventilation was probably the worst part of the job. And the fact that they hid this was even worse. Whenever we had our mandatory air quality testing they would put the monitor on the guy welding the much safer stainless steel. The management was  poor and they kept very unsafe employees around because they didn't want to hurt their feelings. I had high hopes when I started there only to see my fantasy quickly turn into a nightmare. I would not recommend this job to anyone who wants a future in a long term career.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Master Halco is fast and growing company with great benefits.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Its a fast pace environment and if your not used to a high volume of calls and customer traffic if can be overwhelming. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is great and we have created a culture that is fun to come to work and be competitive at the same time.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
High Volume of customer walk in's, High Volume of incoming calls with a mix of high volume of emails and reports. Every position is unique on its own and everyone needs each other for the entire team to function.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Associate 92 salaries reported	$21.48 per hour
Inside sales representative 66 salaries reported	$25.59 per hour
Outside sales representative 22 salaries reported	$83,080 per year
Welder 31 salaries reported	$22.48 per hour
Branch manager 11 salaries reported	$104,491 per year

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