Senior Solid Waste Maintenance Worker

About the role

This journey-level role offers stable work, hands-on variety, and the opportunity to make a visible impact on the community every single day. It includes performing routine to complex maintenance and repair of bins, vehicles, and equipment, delivering and picking up containers, and operating various tools and equipment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain & Repair: Perform routine to complex maintenance on solid waste bins, vehicles, and equipment, including welding, painting, and replacing parts.
• Inspect & Service: Conduct preventative maintenance on fleet and keep the solid waste yard organized.
• Operate Heavy Equipment: Safely navigate and operate dump trucks, skiploaders, and forklifts.
• Community Service: Deliver and exchange residential containers, clear illegal dumping sites, and resolve customer service inquiries with tact and professionalism.
• Lead by Example: Maintain detailed daily activity logs, ensure strict adherence to safety protocols, and help train lower-level crew members.

Requirements

• Knowledge of operation and routine to complex maintenance and repair of solid waste vehicles, equipment, and tools, including welding and painting.
• Basic solid waste collection and disposal principles, practices, vehicles, tools, and equipment for maintaining sanitation and cleanliness of a City.
• Applicable Federal, State, and local laws, codes, and regulations.
• Safety equipment and practices related to the work, including the handling of hazardous solid waste.
• Safe driving rules and practices.
• Traffic and safety equipment and practices.
• Techniques for providing a high level of customer service to the public and City staff, in person and over the telephone.

Qualifications

• Ability to safely and effectively use, operate, and maintain the full range of equipment and tools required for the work.
• Perform routine to complex equipment maintenance, including welding and painting.
• Work with heavy automotive equipment requiring good motor coordination and physical strength.
• Heavy manual labor for extended periods of time in all types of weather.
• Troubleshoot maintenance problems and determine materials and supplies required for repair.
• Participate in solid waste collection and disposal operations and related projects.
• Operate a motor vehicle safely.
• Maintain accurate logs, records, and basic reports of work performed.
• Follow department policies and procedures related to assigned duties.
• Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Organize own work, set priorities, and meet critical time deadlines.
• Communicate effectively in person, over the telephone, and in writing.
• Use tact, initiative, prudence, and independent judgment within general policy, procedural, and legal guidelines.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of the work.