Helgesen Review

Almost 15 years there and my time was amazing! I was given amazing opportunities for career growth, built relationships closer to family than coworkers and would strongly recommend to others. Started part time as a welder in high school parted as an engineer with no degree giving solid proof of promotion within. I was given amazing opportunities to travel the world and help grow our global facilities and work together with our customers and our global employees to build unmatched relationships. Given the right amount of hard work, drive, and ambition you can really make an endless opportunity career you can be proud of. Management helps motivate and grow personal and professional knowledge for your benefit and rewards for achievements. From robots to machining, painting or assembly Helgesen is making great strides to help make employees and customers happy to be apart of the Helgesen family. I will never forget what I was able to be apart of and help build, also how Helgesen helped me build a foundation for my career and skills to come! I am sincerely grateful for all my experiences as an employee and a member of the Helgesen family.

Helgesen is incredibly generous and supportive of our local community, both in support and volunteerism. Thank you Helgesen from Big Brothers Big Sisters for your support with Bowl for Kids' Sake 2020!

this company is hell on earth don't work there you'll be sorry.

One of the worst managed companies out there.First day on the job people are screaming at you.Boss was an a hole.They have the biggest turn around of people for a reason.HR is as lazy as they come.

Welder (Current Employee)
Helgesen has paid for my entire business degree throughout my time as being a welder.

The day to day tasks are pretty simple and the company provides job instructions that show you how to build and weld the parts. I Don't have to bring any tools in to my job either. Helgesen provides all the hand tools and Grinders. Helgesen even provides everyone with a SpeedGlas Welding Helmet. My weld helmet actually stopped working, and the company gave me a brand new one!

Currently I am in an engineering role. Pretty crazy to think that I started working here one week after I graduated high school and I have been able to advance so quickly.

Pros
new boots every 6 months, tuition re-imbustment, extra vacation day bonuses for perfect attendance

15 years at this place and I am so glad to be out of that place. Plenty of way better places to work at. Unless you were friends with management you were looked down on. Extremely poor management. You will never be told you do excellent work on a review no matter how hard you work. Once you get up in pay and vacation they will find some way to let you go. Very poor air quality. No employee appreciation what so ever. No bonuses etc.

I'm a welder here 2nd shift and I love it. the pay is great the training is amazing for new welders I would highly recommend

Current Employee
I have had a great experience working at Helgesen. I've been here for 6 1/2 years with hard work and dedication I've had amazing promotional opportunities to advance. Starting on the assembly line building tanks to currently being part of the R4 Team responsible for continuous improvement. Everything I'm capable of doing I have learned thru in house training, from welding to running equipment to overseeing new product integration to a street/area. I work with a great team and am thankful of everything I have had an opportunity to be part of thru the business.
You are offered great insurance and employee benefits from on-site quarterly health assessments and Teledoc access to receiving new boot vouchers and shirts every six months. They offer Perfect Attendance Awards and opportunities to participate in employee and community events thru out the year.

Their "crashing computer kiosk" in their lobby determined I wasn't a good fit for their MAINTENANCE position. I wouldn't want to work there anyways after seeing that's how they analyse candidates.

Terrible managment of a business. I've seen people get screamed at like there children for the smallest things. 90% of the people i worked with here hated having to come here to work, the only reason they stayed was the pay, and even that didn"t alot of them. I worked here less then a year and i saw more people get hired and quit then i have ever seen in any job.

My company has worked with a number of the team at Helgesen over the years. Each experience has been professional and very productive.

I'm a forner employee: It was an excellent company for being able to expand and grow knowledge. The benifits are good, the pay was fair, and three day weekends were alright. Waking up at 3a.m. to be there by 4a.m. is different than any other shift in my life, I simply couldn't ajust to that start time. Still my opinion it was an excellent company to work for and am thankful for the opportunity they had given me. I stand behind my 5-star review and hope more companies learn from them someday. Robert.

They load pretty well. The broker ordered our truck before the load was ready, had to wait almost for 4 hours. Second time we had the pick up and it was fast.