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Job Purpose
- Drive a commercial waste collection truck to empty dumpsters from commercial sites.
Tasks
- Using Front-Load, Roll-Off, or Grapple vehicles to service commercial businesses, picking up Dumpsters
- Clean up loose trash or spills that may occur.
- Clean trucks or compactor bodies after landfill trips and/or routes have been completed.
- Communicate with dispatchers concerning delays, unsafe sites, accidents, equipment breakdowns, or other maintenance problems.
- Drive trucks, following established routes, through residential streets or alleys or through business or industrial areas.
- Dump refuse or recyclable materials at disposal sites.
- Fill out defective equipment reports, as well as route/productivity sheets.
- Inspect trucks prior to beginning routes to ensure safe operating condition.
- Operate automated or semi-automated hoisting devices that raise refuse bins and dump contents into openings in truck bodies.
- Operate equipment that compresses collected refuse.
- Refuel trucks or add other fluids, such as oil or brake fluid.
- Read route sheet or app, follow map, and service each stop as assigned
Requirements
- This position requires the employee:
- To be able to stand for long hours
- To stoop and bend with ease
- To be able to push, pull, and lift 50 pounds (to waist height) unassisted
- To be able to step up into a truck repeatedly
- To work in an environment that often smells musty, putrid, or rancid
- To potentially work in an environment that has seasonally high heat or low temperatures due to being outdoors
- To potentially work in an environment that has wet or humid conditions due to be being outdoors
- To work near moving mechanical parts
- Must be able to pass a drug test and have a clean driving record
- Offer contingent on a background check
Qualifications
- No major traffic violations or at-fault accidents in previous three (3) years time frame.
- Must be registered with the FMCSA Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse and provide consent for pre-employment queries.
- Minimum one (1) year experience driving Roll Off vehicles preferred.
- Must have a current Certified Medical Exam Card
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