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Most of my days of work were spent out in the field rather than in the office. Thats how I liked it though. Typically my day stats off with a daily meeting with the plant manager and maintenance manager. We discuss what needs fixed plant wide. Usually when something needs worked on MPW is called on to make sure that the area is cleaned and ready to be worked on. This is where my relationship with the customer is important because the information he relays to me is then relayed to MPW dispatch by myself. I schedule the required equipment and personnel. Next I wait for my crew to show up and hen coordinate the job. I cannot begin to explain how much I have learned since I started with the company. As far as industrial cleaning i've learned astronomical amounts of knowledge. More importantly I learned how to speak and not to speak to people. There are a lot of managers in this company who have little to no people skills. My co-workers were over all unhappy with their career path which in turn is the reason why I am seeking new employment. The hardest part of the job is being in an environment where mostly everyone in it obtains an attitude that doesn't help to motivate. The most enjoyable part of the job is just being able to excel as fast as i did and basically show off my fast learning talents. I was able to catch on very fast which made people shine around me. This was also enjoyable to see my coworkers become proud of their work.  

To those that say their is no room for advancement...that is absolutely false.  Most employees are hired as laborers (techs) or CDL operators/drivers.  That is how you begin with MPW.  After learning the jobs and getting experience with vaccing, blasting, lancing, etc. or demonstrating your knowledge of the companies equipment, you can easily be promoted.  When the supervisors see that you are a self motivated individual that does not need to be constantly redirected, they will give you the opportunity to run jobs.  If you succeed in running jobs with a few techs working for you, eventually you can be promoted to a crew leader or a supervisor, or like I was, into the office to tackle a new challenge.  Of the 13 supervisors I have the most contact with, most of them started out as techs...probably at $12-$13 an hour.  Now they are not only running jobs but they are account managers and supervisors running entire crews of 10-40 workers, getting the jobs themselves and working with me to fill these jobs on a daily basis to help grow the company. 
Safety is and always will be our number 1 concern...and that is a good thing.  We work in dangerous places where accidents can happen if people are not working safely.  We are a team that benefits from each other always trying their best.
If I could change anything with the company it would probably be the hiring process.  MPW can afford to be a bit more picky with who we hire.
I enjoy the people that I work with and the job I do.

I am currently a Field Tech at MPW Industrial Services. We are contractors who go in industrial plants such as steel mills, power plants and so on and clean them. I did learn a lot here; I learned how to operate some of the heavy equipment like our vacuum trucks and waterblasters, and I learned how to drive a standard transmission vehicle. 

Most of the people that work here are great to work with. Teamwork is essential in this line of work and it's a great day when everyone works together to find the easiest and safest way possible to do a job. I've been doing this for a while and I enjoy when I'm being counted on to do a job and when someone in supervison looks at it and tells me I did my job well.

The job can can be hard at times... sometimes something doesn't go right, or we're under a lot of pressure to get something done quick, or sometimes the job is just plain hard. It can be a very dirty job too... especially steel mills, I've been in all sorts of grease pits. The work never bothered me though.

I am now in a committed relationship and have a family of my own and this job just doesn't work for me anymore. The hours are erratic... I never know when I'm working, where I'm working, how long I'm working for or when I'm coming home. I can make 800 dollars one week and nothing the next. I need something that's going to be a stable source of income, and something where I can just go to work and come home every day.

I was hired on with MPW to be a material handler at the steel mill in Youngstown.  I started at $12.50(the same rate the unskilled janitors made).  

The actual job wasn't bad.  It was an interesting experience working in a very high tech steel mill, however the actual good parts of the job, had nothing to do with MPW. 

The steel mill I was a contractor through seemed like they had my back and were really devoted to training and safety, they were always there to answer any calls or questions.  MPW however, was nearly impossible to get a hold of.  I had to wait 5 weeks for my first paycheck, and I only got one because I filed a formal complaint with the steel mill against MPW.

They hire on a lot of drug addicts.  I saw easily 20 people come in just to fail their drug tests, or wreck something when they came in high or drunk.  I also was expected to purchase my uniforms from MPW and pay for laundering (they never did laundering of uniforms.)
I eventually talked to the mill directly and got uniforms from the steel mill, as they knew MPW didn't even remember I was there. (I had 1 set of too large overalls, for 6 weeks despite being promised week 2 I would get proper ones).

The other contractors at the mill would make no less than $18, MPW paid all of $12.50, and then would happily dismiss the good employees while keeping the questionable ones.  

Don't waste your time with MPW.

A typical day at work was easy going. The temperature at Logan of course can set you a blaze at times so that would be the hardest part of the job. You’ll learn genuine honest good work ethic while employed for this company. It’s not hard, it’s just what you make of it. Their very easy going people, a few of them can be rough around the edges and not model citizens (though who always is) but nonetheless good people to work with that watch out for one another in terms of staying safety conscious. Very understanding management, they just don’t put up with to many nonsensical excuses in relation to being late every other day or absent to long. The most enjoyable part of the job was when the eclipse happened towards the end of the day and they let us all go 20 mins before everybody’s shift ended to watch it. A lot of fun memories and good laughs. It’s the small things. 100% recommend this company to work for as a laborer as long as you don’t mind the dirt. Otherwise look elsewhere unless educated for example and looking to get into an office position. 

Just remember no matter what you do it's never good enough. They have a culture there where the employees tell on each other. They've had so many safety issues that the rules are insane. You have to carry a safety coin in your pocket. You have to give a safety observation every month. You have to carry gloves with you to enter the shop. There are new rules every week.  You are treated like a child. There are weekly meetings with management and your peers so everyone knows what you are working on. They ask constantly: is it done yet, is it done yet. If you don't understand something don't ask or they will hold it against you as if you don't know what you're doing. You constantly get more responsibilities the longer you are there but no more time to do them. The benefits are not that great. You have to wait a year to get into the 401K. Health insurance is expensive. You don't get very many holidays off. Most of the workers are young because anybody with experience doesn't want to work there. They fired me because I was a week late on a project. I qualified for unemployment and they appealed that and tried to get me off unemployment.  I had to fight to keep my unemployment.

We had a 8 man crew and 2 chemist based out of Youngstown, Ohio we would travel in our convoy up and down the east coast, the south and the midwestern states to Generation Plants such as First Energy/Reliant to chemically clean boillers.We had one heck of a load sheet the crew had to make sure all the Trucks/Tankers had the right equipment on board Pumps, Pipes, High Pressure Hoses,Fitings etc...Before the job would start we would set up Spill Containment Units and go back and forth state to state delivering Frat Tanks(20 thousand gallon tank to hold waste)and deliver or transfer chemical from tanker to tanker. After set up we would split into a 4 man crew and work 12 hour shifts with the plants chemist and are own chemist to inject the right amount of chemical. How it worked: inject 500 to a 1000 gallons of chemical, fire the boiler up to temperture, cycle the chemical, wait/ cool down take a sample every hour on the hour add if needed until the system was clean The chemical would clean the insides of the pipes takeing out materials like iron and copper very very expensive.

Every Morning i had to be at work a 6 am to my daily work task, We all did.. i never really knew what time i was getting off because MPW didn't have set time schedules, next we got our PPE then went on to complete the jobs throught the factory..

While i was with MPW I've learned alot about PPE, and OSHA. i have also learned about super vaccing and water blasting..

My co-workers and i treated each other as a tight family and worked as a team beacuse each task was very dangerious and potientially life threating, so we worked hard and followed each guide line of the job to make sure we limited the amout of near misses and complete each job to perfection.

The hardest part about working for MPW and the job was everyday we never knew what the job may be or how long we would be one that job, and some times whe didn't have the PPE need to get the job done so they sometimes made us impprovise..

The most enjoyable part of working for MPW was the Benefits, pay, and hours...

It was a great job until I was there for one month and they wouldn't let me move on to a different job, even though I was trained and signed off in 3 or 4 days!!!?! Then after I was moved, the management picked on me and tried to get me to do other people's job, no questions asked. I again, got paid less than everyone else and was one of few who did their job and did it right, so I quit. Was tired of having to deal with work everyday, and our management was awful. They trained my supervisor on one of my positions AFTER we lost so many people he had to know for just in case he had to come up and help. They also left right at 1 everyday, even though they weren't supposed to leave until everyone from second shift had clocked out and gone home, yet most of us were there till 2 or 3 everyday...

It’s hard work which would be ok if they paid more for what they want you to do. I got hired to be a team lead but never got the position after 3 weeks like agreed. Instead I was replace by someone clearly on drugs who yells at everyone. Most people quit and a 15 person job was left to me and 5 other people with me making less money than I planned on. They want you to work in holiday too which they SAY they give holiday pay once you’ve been there 3 months but most people would never see because that place has a revolving door for employees. One of the worst jobs I’ve ever had mainly because they lied about hiring me for one position and sticking me in another just to use me for help because they can’t get people to stay. I can deal with 12 shifts and working hard and getting dirty but they treat their people horrible. And management doesn’t appreciate the people who actually worked the hardest. 

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