truck driver

laborer

sales representative

cost accountant

equipment operator

National Salvage & Service

What is the best part of working at the company?
all the overtime you wanted up to 70 hrs a week. great people in the office and really good owners. i was compensated good for my work and felt they appreciated my work

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
being away from home,living in hotels, and being in big cities

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
met a lot of good hard working people.only one supervisor i did not care for. everyone else was very good to work for

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
get up at 4:30 be on job at daylight and work till dark. go back to room fix supper in microwave hit the sack

Poor Management:

There is no delegation of power to managers. Every decision you make must go through the owners, which make knee-jerk decisions based out of stress and without consulting the employees that actually work the job on a daily basis. 
Expect to be micromanaged; you will have between 3-8 managers to report too, none of which talk to each other. It is nearly impossible to get everyone on the same page. 


You are expendable:

Every day you work here, you will have to live with the stress that at any given point they will fire you without cause. I have watched it happen to 22 employees while employed with this company.

Management will be the death of the Mcbain location! Being friends with the owner doesn't mean you're doing a good job. In fact your inability to handle the fuel yard and the turnover rate because of is proof enough. Letting the safety girl make all the decisions makes you a fool. Secondly your job openings and descriptions make me laugh! Completely misleading and inaccurate.  Just say you're looking for employees to be extremely skilled in doing all the positions available for your lowest paying position and hang in there until your exhausted and quit because you're done waiting for the empty promise of a pay raise. 

Over the past 6 years I have traveled over 25 states working as a project manager. I have gained lots of knowledge on computer programs and systems. The company is a very open and honest growing company. The company really takes care of their employees. The managers want everyone to grow and learn. Being on the road many hours each day is the hardest part of my job. Traveling and seeing new places each week is the most enjoyable part of my job. Working with a large variety of people every day is fun and challenging all rolled into one.

Don't matter if you have done this work 10 years or 0 does not matter! There are favorites who get it all and you have no life and no growth. If you keep your nose down and work and dont get involve with the politics with the higher management then you go no where here. Dread going to work everyday. Also ìf your not in the click when you go on rotation and come back they will take your truck your boom truck and give to their favs and your gang and give you a small work which cuts 500 out of your check because of production and this guy cant even do the job. So dont even bother

Great place to work if you like to learn something new everyday. Not the place for you if you want to do only one type of work. You will weld, fabricate, wrench, clean, parts run, operate equipment, and more. PROS- lots to learn- guaranteed overtime every week- paid weekly- 1st shift. CONS- stressful work environment- 10 hour work days and possible Saturdays, although good for the paycheck it can get overwhelming- the type of work you want to do doesn't matter you are to do as told. example you aren't a welder... well you are now.

My time there was wasted. Too many structural and organizational issues. People are afraid of the managers because the managers make decisions based on how they feel that day, and the managers are afraid of the owners because the owners constantly change direction and want someone to blame for their problems. The people there have a big vision but no idea how to make it happen. People throw each other under the bus because it’s not working, people get fired, and the same toxic problems persist. Not worth the pay either. 

Work starts at 7am with a meeting to discuss the workload for the day.  When I started at National I did not know how to operate a boom truck, my manager trained me how to properly operate and maneuver through a very tight yard.  The main focus at national is safety and looking out for each other.  The hardest part of the job is climbing consistently up and down the boom truck. The most enjoyable part of the job is is operating its fun .

A typical day at work was enjoyable, I learned the difference between the ties as I sorted them. Management was terrible! Workplace culture was/is very Hostile, nothing hard about the job but management made it hard for no reason and the office never asked or cared for our opinions, which made it even worse, only enjoyable thing about the job was getting to visit different places. 

FIELD MANAGEMENT IS THIER BIGGEST PROBLEM!!!

I worked here for 4 years and having nothing but bad to say. They made me drive to Minnesota for 1 week of work then had to drive to Mississippi the following weekend and refused to pay fuel cost in my personal vehicle. Low wages for travel start out is only between 12 and 16 based on experience, had my family with me in a hotel in ky that had black mold, asked to move to new hotel for health reasons and they denied me. All in all this is a cut throat company.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 205 salaries reported	$26.94 per hour
Laborer 69 salaries reported	$21.70 per hour
Sales representative 30 salaries reported	$85,000 per year
Cost accountant 14 salaries reported	$67,500 per year
Equipment operator 8 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour

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