SIDELOADER OPERATOR TRAINEE

About the role

Application accepted from: all persons interested. Division/Section: Solid Waste Management. Location: North & South Operations. Workdays & Hours: Shift work to include mandatory overtime, weekends, holidays, and disaster recovery (subject to change).

Responsibilities

• Perform unskilled physical labor in the collection of municipal solid waste and recyclable material.
• Participate in on-the-job training program to obtain skills and knowledge to become a sideloader operator, including training to drive refuse (rear-end loader) equipment.
• Work primarily from the back of the truck as a sideloader operator trainee.
• Collect household garbage from city curbs.
• Empty and clean truck.
• Answer citizens’ questions regarding proper contents, packing weight, container types, pick-up times, and placement of containers.
• Perform special assignments as directed.

Working Conditions

The position requires extensive, near-continuous physical exertion such as repeated lifting of very heavy objects (more than 80 pounds), deep bending, climbing steps, and/or assuming awkward positions. There are frequent exposures to extreme levels of temperature, air pollution, noise pollution, chemical gases and substances, and/or contagious diseases or physical trauma conditions of a short-term disabling nature, such as broken bones or temporary loss of sight or hearing. Requires the ability to make closely coordinated eye/hand movements within very fine tolerance and/or calibration demands; or the ability to make rapid closely coordinated eye/hand movements on a patterned response space within somewhat fine tolerance demands; or the ability to make coordinated eye/hand movements within fine tolerances with large equipment as an extension of the worker.

Requirements

Education

Ability to read, write, add, subtract, and follow oral and/or basic written instructions as might normally be acquired through 9 to 11 years of formal schooling.

Experience

No experience is required.

Licenses

• Must obtain a valid Class A or B Commercial Driver’s License within six months from hire.
• Must have a valid Class C Texas Driver’s License and comply with the City of Houston’s policy on driving.