Senior Equipment Operator -Waste Management Services

Responsibilities

• Safely operate heavy equipment, including bulldozer, track loader, landfill compactor, excavator, and off-road trucks, to load and move trash and other materials, compact trash, and place cover soil in accordance with established standards and regulatory requirements.
• Operate other vehicles and equipment such as a rubber tire loader, horizontal grinder, and water truck.
• Perform equipment and vehicle inspections and minor preventative maintenance.
• Conduct training classes and instruct employees on proper operation of heavy equipment and vehicles.
• Certify employee proficiency in proper operation of heavy equipment and vehicles.
• Read and understand GPS software to determine grades and elevation.
• Use standard survey methods for determining grades and elevations to construct landfill final outside slopes, cover terraces, drainage ditches, roads, and down chutes.
• Respond to various types of emergencies such as snow, fire, hazmat, and other emergencies and call-outs during and after normal work hours.

Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of the operating characteristics and preventive maintenance requirements of heavy construction vehicles, equipment and power tools.
• Extensive knowledge of construction practices in maintaining roads, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, storm drains and setting of grade stakes.
• Extensive knowledge of the work hazards and applicable Federal, State and local laws concerning safety precautions required to be applied in operating construction equipment and power tools.
• Extensive knowledge of how to effectively and safely rig vehicles, loads and products for towing.
• Extensive knowledge of applicable traffic laws, ordinances, and regulations pertaining to operating equipment.
• Extensive knowledge of the primary and secondary road system in Anne Arundel County.
• Extensive knowledge of Federal, State and County health regulations that pertain to the transporting and disposal of sewage, sewage sludge, recyclable items and solid waste.
• Extensive knowledge in excavating around buried utilities.
• Ability to train and instruct employees in the proper operation of construction vehicles and equipment.
• Ability to lead a maintenance crew in performing work assignments.
• Ability to read and follow engineer blueprints.
• Ability to read and follow street map directions.
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
• Ability to stand or walk over rough terrain for long periods of time.
• Ability to work in confined spaces requiring considerable bending, crouching, stretching or crawling.
• Ability to climb ladders or scaffolding.
• Ability to lift heavy objects and bulky items.
• Ability to work in dirty, noisy, dusty conditions where very disagreeable odors are present.
• Ability to work with dangerous hand and power tools.
• Ability to work hours beyond the standard workweek and schedule as required.
• Ability to establish effective working relationships with other employees.
• Ability to communicate effectively with the public, and employees.

Qualifications

• Education: Graduation from high school or vocational school.
• Experience: Six (6) or more years of experience in the operation of heavy construction vehicles, equipment, and power tools.
• Additional Requirements: A valid commercial Class A or B motor vehicle operator's license, as determined by area of assignment.

Skills

• Possession of a Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with tanker endorsements or the ability to obtain the tanker endorsements within six (6) months of hire.
• Six (6) or more years of experience operating heavy landfill equipment, including but not limited to: Landfill Compactor, Tracked Bulldozer, Tracked Loader, Tracked Excavator, Rubber Tire Loader, Articulating Dump Truck, Water Tanker Truck, and Horizontal Grinder.
• Experience with landfill operations and solid waste placement and compaction.
• Extensive customer service experience.
• The ability to work frequent mandatory overtime.