CDL - Residential Rear Load Driver

Overview

GFL Environmental is one of North America’s leading waste management companies, dedicated to providing sustainable solutions to make communities cleaner, safer, and happier. Working for GFL offers opportunities for growth, friendship, and making a positive impact every day.

Key Responsibilities

• Drives a rear-load, split body, curotto, or automated-side load truck along designated routes to collect waste and transport it to post-collection facilities.
• Assists helpers in loading solid waste into the truck hopper as needed.
• Utilizes helpers while backing up according to Company policy.
• Ensures adherence to Company policies, procedures, safety compliance, and quality standards while on designated routes.
• Operates a mechanical packer to load and compact trash from the hopper into the truck body.
• Cleans waste from the packer blade and truck body after each landfill or transfer station run.
• Maintains and submits necessary logs and reports as required by law or company policy.
• Maneuvers the truck into and out of minimum clearance spaces using mirrors to back up.
• Follows safe operating practices, including lockout/tagout procedures.
• Monitors operations to detect loose debris and visually scans customer sites before and after dumping.
• Adheres to all DOT, OSHA, FMCSA, and EPA regulations and standards.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• A high school diploma or equivalent (GED) is preferred.
• A valid Commercial Driver’s License (CDL), either Class A or B, is required.
• Must be at least 21 years old.
• One year of commercial driving experience or a CDL school certificate is required.
• Must meet relevant criteria for safety-sensitive functions according to Company standards.
• Must demonstrate the ability to safely operate the truck and equipment.
• Must have the ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external customers.
• Must be able to read, write, and comprehend associated documents and maps.
• Must be able to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Must be flexible to accept and adapt to change and committed to continuous improvement.
• Must be able to exert muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects up to 50 pounds repetitively using proper lifting techniques.
• Must be able to coordinate two or more limbs (for example: two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting or standing.
• Must be able to follow all company safety policies and procedures.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Knowledge of the truck and its components and basic maintenance requirements.
• Ability to control operations of equipment and maneuver the truck into and out of minimum clearance spaces using mirrors to back up distances of approximately 120 feet or more.
• Ability to recognize unacceptable waste (such as gasoline or other flammable materials).
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external customers.
• Ability to read, write, and comprehend associated documents and maps.
• Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Flexibility to accept and adapt to change and commitment to continuous improvement.
• Ability to exert muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects up to 50 pounds repetitively using proper lifting techniques.
• Ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example: two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting or standing.
• Ability to follow all company safety policies and procedures.

Physical/Mental Demands

• Frequently stands, walks, uses hands and fingers, reaches, stoops, kneels, crouches, crawls, talks, hears, climbs, balances, and smells.
• May sit up to 75% of the time due to the primary function of driving.
• Frequently lifts/moves up to 25 pounds and occasionally lifts/moves up to 100 pounds.
• Works in usually loud conditions.
• Exposed to loud noise, humidity, rainy/stormy, extreme hot and cold weather conditions (depending on season), moving mechanical parts, vibration, toxic and caustic chemicals, fumes, and airborne particles.
• Works in an outdoor environment up to 100% of the time.
• Works route away from branch location on a continuous basis throughout the day.
• Occasionally works in high precarious places.
• Works in motor vehicle traffic conditions constantly.
• Works in a usually loud environment.