truck driver

driver

sales representative

route driver

inside sales representative

Safety-Kleen

What is the best part of working at the company?
I worked at the Highland California location. The coworkers and the schedule was the best part about this job. The supervisor for the box trucks was an Ahole. The manager wasn't too involved which was good and bad in a sense. The work wasn't too heavy as I have background in previous warehouse and landscaping, but others could find the work hard or demanding as working in the warehouse comes with physical labor and heavy lifting. The hardest part was accurately labeling waste, staging waste, and shrink wrapping the waste on pallets by hand in order to be ready for shipment.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
There are only 2 warehouse worker positions at this location and if one guy was out that left the other guy unloading all the box trucks waste while having to insure the waste is accurately labeled and accounted for. After all waste is unloaded you would load up new material as asked for on the new material sheet for the drivers stops for the day. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I'll give the work environment a 7.5 out of 10, and the culture a 7 out of 10.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Arrive at 4am, open the warehouse doors, get the forklift, and start unloading trucks waste while simultaneously loading up new material such as boxes of oil, 55gal drums of oil, empty 55gal drums, etc. Drivers are in by 6am and ready to start heading out by 7am. By then they may ask for last minute materials and then they are on their way. After trucks are gone we organize waste with compatible waste and store them in the warehouse. We check waste and put barcodes on a load sheet and shrink wrap the pallets. We load up waste on big rigs and also unload incoming material as well.

Warehouse coworkers are a blast, work can be steady but usually hectic at times; if you’re applying for the warehouse worker/yard spotter position, just understand that they will be expecting you to perform the job of 2 people. It was cool when I first started as I had the opportunity to learn how to drive a spotter truck (I do not hold a CDL-A)  which only helped make me realized that the job was not worth it for the pay even with a CDL-A. Management composes a “we’re all friends and family here” type of atmosphere only for them to endlessly ask for favors followed only by “Thank You”s to try & make you feel accomplished & act as if they gave out due compensation. I feel for my coworkers as some have been here for much longer than anyone should be 5,10,20+ years and have seen the pay and benefits go nowhere in terms of keeping up with inflation, every last one of them deserves something more for their time & effort, but instead are met with more work & ways to do the work. Training modules are useless, workers are disciplined for not following an increasingly minor safety rule but management can easily go around actual safety hazards by simply saying “well it has to get done”. Plenty more to say but bottom line is the DC Shipping and Receiving side is being left to rot, you will realize that soon enough.  

Tip: If you are not given a yearly raise of at least 2%, by the 5th year you’d have lost 10% of your purchasing power. 

Cdl local drivers come in between 6-7
Run routes til about 4:30/5:00pm
Offload/load for next day. 
Pretty much the same thing Monday-friday.
Some routes are easy some routes are long.
Some days are light Some days are tough.
Most of their trucks are older usually manuals but they are gradually getting automatic up to date trucks throughout the company. On the bright side they don't have cameras in the truck to micro manage your driving!
The culture is awesome it's the same type of ppl at every job so different personalities are expected but overall great family culture.  The pay is competitive plus overtime/monthly commission makes the checks so much better.  As far as benifits eeeh they're good but you'll pay an arm and a leg if you plan on adding family. Overall I'd give them a 4 out of 5! Oh yea  p.s.they take foooorever to get your dq file completed. Different departments who all work on different times! So expect to start before your background check is completed! If you already have a job be cautious because this company will allow you to work for them for a month just to tell you they don't agree with something in your background check and let you go so please ask all necessary questions before leaving your current job. For the ones with past drug offenses in the clearinghouse they don't hire ppl with positive drug test within the last 3 years. Hopes this helps someone whose looking to join the safety-kleen/cleanharbors team

I was hired as a "Marketing Sales Representative" and had the worst experience of my career with this firm. First of all, I was recruited on the premise that I would be provided with a company van in which I would visit potential and existing customers. The van was never provided, and I was required to use my personal vehicle. Not the most comforting of situations when you must carry hazardous materials in your family car. Secondly, I was recruited under the presumption that I would be responsible for covering a metropolitan Orlando territory. Again, this was not the case as I was assigned a territory 80 miles north of Orlando. Thirdly, the sales manager was unsupportive in assisting new sales associates, and in fact, was one of the most unprofessional individuals that I've had the misfortune to work with. The focus is one hundred percent on revenue with this company, and if you are not receiving a high level of support, your life will be miserable. I think that corporate was sincere in their efforts to break out of old paradigms and move the organization forward, but they made the mistake of leaving old school managers in place at the territory level who worked against these efforts.

I enjoyed working as the Billing Specialist. I was responsible for auditing billing/pricing. Worked with other departments to resolve discrepancies. Reconciled with Accounts Receivable. Researched pricing issues. Manually invoiced servies performed by third party vendors. Web Billing per customer requirements. Formated vendor data for system upload. Provided backup documentation requested by customers. Responsible for running reports, consolidating the data, and formating the reports accordingly. I then was transfered to the call center and was responsible for various administrative functions essential for everyday operation and fulfillment of sales orders. Monitored Sales rep calls and evaluated trends and performance. Updated the status of sales orders in the CRM database using SAP, Sales Force, Focal Point and Microsoft Dynamics. Completed all reports on a monthly basis for commission verification. Excelled within deadline-intensive environment, ensuring accurate and on=time completion of all projects. Created accounts for new customers. Answered Incoming calls.

Typical day= 5 hours of paperwork due to no admin staff from mass layoffs 3 years ago and once you are totally frustrated from a total lack  of support at management level, then turn that frown upside down, get in your rust bucket of company vehicle  and cold call.Make sure you hide the vehicle around the corner from prospects- 

What I learned= It is definitely a business standard when 1 company buys another they eventually dismantle it. Clean Harbors purchased and is running it to the ground on employees backs.

Management= Broken at every level above local branch.No logic used there except CYA.

Culture=Toxic, As the saying goes "Beatings will continue until moral improves" is the culture at this company. I have personally observed  new employees start here with great track records, very capable and hard working professionals....total turnaround in 6-8 months to, What did i get myself into?

Hardest part of the job= The daily grind while watching the hurdles grow larger by the month and realizing no matter how much you hustle and put in the hours it makes you appreciate the definition of being set up for failure. 

Most enjoyable part of job= Great coworkers at branch level.

Safety-Kleen is part of Clean Harbors.  Clean Harbors is spending no money to update vehicles, equipment, or warehousing.  The co-workers are fantastic yet the management seems like they are on a mission to get rid of the veterans.  The company re-organized it's pay structure taking away all the real money making possibilities.  As an Sales and Service Representative I felt I was greatly underpaid considering the fact that I was sometimes hauling haz-mat doing huge amounts of paperwork, going to dangerous locations on mountain tops.  The branch manager was more concerned about telling stories of how awesome he was in his 35 years of transportation experience.  Never actually coming up with a solution to the task at hand.  Numbers instead of solutions.  Micromanagement.  I inherited a route in which I spent a lot of time in the mountains of East Tennessee.  I was given billing addresses, not physical addresses.  If you think driving a CMV is tough, try turning one around on a mountain top.  I wouldn't suggest taking a job with them unless you can physically see they've updated their fleet.  

Safety-Kleen has so many VP's and Directors that they do not have a clue as to what direction they are going. Not to mention, the lack of communication is appalling. There is simply too many chiefs that have their own personal motives that they do not communicate efficiently with the corporate VP's and visa versa. Hiring an external auditing firm was the downfall of the Inside Sales Division. Every period, the Inside Sales Reps were told how good we were doing and how much revenue we were bringing into the company, but the numbers were skewed. The hiring of the new CEO was the beginning of the end. They had wonderful benefits and a commission structure that made you want to give a 110% everyday. It was heartbreaking to be laid off when your team members and leads were class acts. I believe SK made a fatal mistake in eliminating the Inside Sales call center.

This could have been a great job for someone that doesn't mind hard work.  I did not.  The problem with the organization is that the management has created an enviroment of very unhealthy competition which attracts backstabbing, undermining ego-centric employees.  The organization could be much more productive and lucrative for e veryone if the employees were MADE to work as a team and follow strict ethical standards or BE FIRED>
Unfortunately, this would require management to have strong leadership skills.  Having been in the military for a while, I quickly realized that what I saw at Safety Kleen is what we were warned in  the military about.  What can happen to an organization without strong leadership.  Now I know.  It wasn't a difficult decision to resign.
I was in the El Cajon, CA branch, maybe it's different at another location.

The responsibilities of being a lab tech for this company are  in accordance with science and lab standards. The significant benefit at this particular lab was that Safety-Kleen spent the investment to acquire several gas chromatographic units and the work load was such that experience preparing samples and operating the GC's was daily. SK lab operated with a hybrid split shift so between supervisors and technicians 6 1/2 days a week 24 hours per day when manned; the lab was receiving sample materials, profiling these know standards or unknown wastes and/ or pre profiled wastes with several procedures and tests and generating reports for SK operations or customer requests. The co-workers were competent technicians and team-minded co-workers. Management seemed to be cursed with dreaded omniscient disorder.

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