Fast paced and never boring - Field Mechanic Sunbelt Rentals Employee Review

4.0
Mar 4, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is something different everyday. You may be fixing equipment one minute and then setting up a job the next minute. The people are all good to work with as we work together with other stores and stores in different states. There is plenty of overtime, almost too much. The division handles Power, Temperature, Pumps, Dehumidification, Compressed Air and everything that goes with it so it hardly ever gets boring. The pay is great if you're in one of the union shops, but no so bad in the non union shops if you know your craft, are willing to learn and most of all work. Even though Sunbelt is a big company, there still is a family atmosphere and the CEO and VP's are regular guys that you can have a beer with.

Cons

Employees are spread thin (The reason for all the overtime). Emergency jobs take you away from family often without notice. You're on call 24/7 and that gets old QUICK. In the busy season, it seems like the company fly's by the seat of their pants (disorganized chaos most of the time). Sales doesn't talk to service and the technician gets the pleasantries when on the jobsite when everything goes south.

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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good company with lots of opportunities.

Cons

Some time is seems like management does not care.

2.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The local teams doing the work in the branches are the only team members that make it a positive experience.

Cons

Senior field leadership and it's byzantine hierarchy is filled with matrixed leadership jobs for people who have been good soldiers with long tenure. They don't know anything about the actual work at the branch level or in the markets. Often they spend thousands at meetings in hotels and at bars in the evening which is extremely unprofessional. These same individuals press their political advantage to make sure the people they don't like get dismissed or marginalized and often move people into leadership to virtue signal DEI values. C-suite has been lost since 2021. Budget forecasting, fleet planning, and execution has been weak and lacks strong leadership position. Geographic territories don't make any sense and regions are oddly divided up based on tenure loyalties and not the needs of the business. Senior leadership can be counted on to work Tuesday - Thursday but have no problem asking front line employees to diminish their salary with 60 hour weeks, and pointless Saturday shifts.

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