Senior Solid Waste Operator

About the role

Master the Fleet: Safely operate a wide range of commercial vehicles and equipment, including side/clam shell loaders, roll-off trucks, front loaders, skiploaders, and forklifts.

Manage Commercial Routes: Efficiently collect and dispose of waste along residential and commercial routes, ensuring bins are properly positioned, packed, and maintained.

Hands-On Maintenance: Conduct pre- and post-trip inspections, perform preventative maintenance, and keep vehicles in top operating condition.

Community Ambassadorship: Provide high-level customer service to residents, resolve routine inquiries, and help maintain clean city alleys and roadways.

Ensure Safety & Records: Keep accurate daily activity logs, report equipment issues, and strictly adhere to safe work methods and hazardous waste handling guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Master the Fleet: Safely operate a wide range of commercial vehicles and equipment, including side/clam shell loaders, roll-off trucks, front loaders, skiploaders, and forklifts.
• Manage Commercial Routes: Efficiently collect and dispose of waste along residential and commercial routes, ensuring bins are properly positioned, packed, and maintained.
• Hands-On Maintenance: Conduct pre- and post-trip inspections, perform preventative maintenance, and keep vehicles in top operating condition.
• Community Ambassadorship: Provide high-level customer service to residents, resolve routine inquiries, and help maintain clean city alleys and roadways.
• Ensure Safety & Records: Keep accurate daily activity logs, report equipment issues, and strictly adhere to safe work methods and hazardous waste handling guidelines.

Requirements

• Equivalent to the completion of the twelfth (12th) grade and one (1) year of experience in solid waste collection and disposal including equipment maintenance and repair work.
• Possession of a valid Class B California driver's license with air brake endorsement.

Qualifications

• Knowledge Of Solid waste collection and disposal principles, practices, vehicles, tools, and equipment for maintaining sanitation and cleanliness of a City, including residential and commercial solid waste collection.
• The operation and minor maintenance of a variety of tools, vehicles, and equipment.
• 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.
• Troubleshooting maintenance problems and determining materials and supplies required for repair.
• Maintain accurate logs, records, and basic reports of work performed.
• Follow department policies and procedures related to assigned duties.
• Operate a motor vehicle safely.
• 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.

Skills

• Ability To Participate in solid waste collection and disposal operations and related projects.
• Safely and effectively use, operate, and maintain the full range of equipment and tools required for the work.
• Perform routine equipment maintenance.
• Work with heavy automotive equipment requiring good motor coordination and physical strength.
• Perform heavy manual labor for extended periods of time in all types of weather.
• Troubleshoot maintenance problems and determine materials and supplies required for repair.
• Maintain accurate logs, records, and basic reports of work performed.
• Follow department policies and procedures related to assigned duties.
• Operate a motor vehicle safely.
• 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.

Benefits

• City pays a portion of the employee and dependent coverage costs of group medical, dental and vision insurance.
• An opt-out plan is also available.
• No deductibles, co-pays, or out-of-pocket expenses for services provided by the City-sponsored employee health care clinic.
• 01 Do you have one (1) or more years of experience in solid waste collection and disposal including equipment maintenance and repair work?
• Do you possess a valid Class B California driver's license with air brake endorsement?

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

Wednesday through Friday: 4:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday: 5:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.