Road Maintenance and Landfill Equipment Operator(Globe/Landfill)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Operates road construction and maintenance equipment including front end loaders, backhoes, bulldozers, motor graders, paving machines, street sweepers, transfer trucks and compactors, in accordance with all safety regulations and procedures; and landfill equipment, water truck for dust control, compactor, scraper, bulldozer, and loader for piling solid waste and maintain lifts as required.
• Ensures compliance with safety and environmental regulations applicable to solid waste disposal.
• Grades roads, paves roads, replace asphalt, patches and repairs roads, clean roadways and sweeps streets.
• Maintains ditches and culverts including removing debris from ditches, installing culverts and ensuring the efficient flow of culverts.
• Moves dirt at landfill operations according to precise regulations.
• Coordinates Department of Corrections inmate work detail.
• Performs manual labor assignments as needed, including fire control, accident and hazardous materials cleanup, guardrail and foliage maintenance and debris removal; cuts and removes brush and trees impacting roadways as required; assists landfill customers to unload refuse safely, and separates recyclable products at the landfill.
• Follows safety regulations on all work zone and flagging sites, including placing barricades and cones; landfill liner leakage testing, waste oil barrel cleaning, freon removal from appliances, recycle battery storage and waste tire program.
• Performs emergency road services in relation to snow removal, flood damage repair, rockslides, and fires.
• Hauls materials and transports vehicles and equipment to jobsites using various trucks and transporters.
• Inspects, cleans and performs routine operational check on trucks and heavy equipment. Reports necessary repairs.
• Performs traffic control activities including setting up signs and flagging traffic; directing traffic at landfill.