Equipment Operator I - Sanitation

Equipment Operator I Sanitation

This safety sensitive CDL position (SS) purpose is to drive a commercial rated vehicle along residential routes to collect refuse and recycling. This position is considered an entry level position for someone in training.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

1. Inspecting truck prior to leaving on route to ensure that it is properly cleaned, serviced, and fueled.
2. Driving a reload refuse truck along a route to collect refuse; transferring refuse to a landfill.
3. Emptying refuse into the truck.
4. Performing routine maintenance and minor repairs on the truck.
5. Cleaning truck inside and out.
6. Basic customer service responsibilities dealing with citizens and City employees in performing assigned duties.
7. Driving pickup truck and trailer along residential route for picking up recycling.
8. Attending safety training and other classes as directed.
9. May have oversight of sanitation workers assigned to route.
10. Operating a city vehicle is required for the essential functions.
11. Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications to perform this job successfully include:

Mental alertness and adaptability to office and field area work routines. Equivalent to four years high school or GED, with particular emphasis during high school in office skills, shop skills, or others, plus 0 to 6 months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Ability to read and understand documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. Ability to perform these mathematical skills using money and other forms of measurement.

Ability to use common sense understanding in order to carry out simple multi-step instructions. Ability to deal with standardized situations with limited variables.

Class B CDL license with air brakes endorsement required to operate assigned equipment or Training to obtain CDL.

Under immediate supervision, performs general assignments of work, with periodic check of performance by supervisor.

Limited responsibility with regard to specific assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work operations.

Performs work operations which permit infrequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and which would only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved to a slight degree.

Operations requiring intermittent directed thinking to carry out predetermined procedure or sequence of operations of limited variability. Operations requiring intermittent attention to control machine or manual motions.

Repetitive. Activities or duties using a pre-determined set of processes or directions coupled with nearby supervision. Learned things in situations where choice is simple or patterned.

Occasionally responsible for organization's property where carelessness, error, or misappropriation would result in moderate damage or moderate monetary loss to the organization. The total value for the above would range from $5,000 to $150,000.

Probable errors of internal scope readily detected in normal course of work by standard check or routine crosscheck within a single department or office. Errors resulting from inaccuracy would create minor confusion, delay or expense to correct the situation.

Defined. Semi-repetitive prescribed processes and procedures with nearby supervision.

The amount of annual dollars generated based on the job's essential duties/responsibilities. None. Job does not create any dollar monetary impact for the organization.

Minimal impact. Job is focused on non-supervisory decision making activities and has minor impact on the organization's end results.

Occasional routine contacts with persons outside the organization. This would include contacts with suppliers, mail service, etc.

Contacts of little importance and usually with immediate associates only. Requires only ordinary courtesy to avoid friction in relationship incidental to working with others.

Regular use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and production machines and equipment, driver's license/cdl, etc.)

Outside working environment, wherein there are disagreeable working conditions part of the time.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, outdoor weather conditions; The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

The employee is continuously required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear; regularly required to climb or balance; occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds; continuously lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision; and peripheral vision.