Driver- Class C

Driver- Class C

Location: Santa Barbara

Position Summary: The Driver-Class C will perform manual labor in the collection of trash, green waste, and recyclable material on designated residential routes, public spaces, including special hauls, bulky items pickups, and illegal dumps. The ideal candidate is reliable, physically capable, and committed to providing efficient and professional services.

Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Safely operate a Class C truck for the collection and removal of waste.
• Collect and transport trash, recycling, green waste, and special hauls.
• Collection of annual, e-waste, bulky items, illegal dumps, and leaving the location clean and free of debris.
• Interact with customers, dispatchers, and others daily to ensure all orders are serviced in a timely, accurate, and professional manner. Ensure all loads are always secure for safe transport to the designated disposal facility.
• Offload items to the C&D Yard using a forklift and place items in their designated area in an organized manner, including submittal of proper paperwork/recordkeeping completion.
• Perform pre- and post-operation inspections and complete the VCR (Vehicle Condition Report) book for the assigned vehicle in accordance with Company policy.
• Collection of waste on assigned routes and leaves the location clean and free of debris and accidental waste spills.
• Assembles garbage bins and recycling containers.
• Communicate accidents, injuries, or property damage to the supervisor immediately.
• Develop and maintain a professional demeanor with the public.
• Ensuring that Health and Safety is the number one priority by complying with all safe work practices, policies, and processes and always acting in a safe manner.
• Maintain the cleanliness of the vehicle and equipment.
• Identify and report truck or equipment issues promptly utilizing the Fleet Software Program.
• Report ends of day hours utilizing the Fleet Software Program.
• Maintain Driver log sheets.
• Perform all duties with a very high level of productivity to complete all work orders assigned.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Experience:

• Two years of driving experience with the ability to operate equipment with skills, efficiency, and safety.
• Ability to give full attention to assigned route. Drivers will navigate driveways, alleyways, parking lots, and high-traffic roadways. Highly skilled backing maneuvers are essential to successfully perform this job.
• Must have the ability to understand and complete route sheets and dispatch tickets.
• Must have the ability to read, interpret maps easily & route work orders in the most efficient sequence.
• Good customer skills to meet and exceed customer expectations in a professional and courteous manner.
• Excellent time management skills to ensure assigned responsibilities are completed in an efficient and safe manner.
• Good follow-through ability; adheres to work schedule and follows through on challenges as they arise.
• Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing.
• Ability to perform heavy and physically demanding work for lengthy and continuous periods of time.
• Ability to withstand all types of weather conditions.
• Ability to work a Thursday through Monday schedule.

Education:

Less than high school education; or two years of driving experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Core Competencies:

• Doing Good: Maintains and promotes integrity and values in the conduct of all activities.
• Making Good: Takes responsibility and ownership for a problem, project, or issue.
• Treating Our People Well: Proactively seeks and finds ways to provide extraordinary service. Fosters respect for all individuals and points of view. Works cooperatively and effectively with others to achieve common goals characterized by pride, trust, and commitment.
• Observant: Ability to identify safety or operational deficiencies and to quickly implement a correction.
• Safety Matters: Actively participates in creating a safe and healthy workplace for our employees and our customers.
• Environmentally Focused: Takes initiative to preserve and improve our local environment for future generations. Makes every day Earth Day.

Neat Job Specific Competencies: Customer Service, Dependability, Efficiency, and Safety Conscious

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

Valid California Class C driver's license

Language Skills:

Ability to read and write English, interpret documents such as safety rules, operation and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. They should also be able to speak English effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee occasionally is required to sit, squat, kneel, and/or crawl. The employee frequently must climb, reach above the shoulder level, and use fine manipulation of hands. The employee constantly must walk, stand, bend at the neck and waist, twist at the neck and waist, grasp (simple and power), and push and pull. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.

Work Environment:

We are a drug-free and alcohol-free work environment.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold, and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and dirty. Required to put on protective outfits such as gloves, high-visibility gear, hard hat, etc.