Convenience Center Attendant

Landfill Convenience Site Worker

Compensation Range: $17.62 - $22.58

Please note: This job opening may close earlier than the stated date, due to high candidate volume. If interested, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Who We Are:

At the City of High Point, we celebrate the creator in everyone. Building on our rich cultural history steeped in industrialism and innovation, our employees seek not only to transform themselves, but the world around us. We are collaborators, we are makers, we are visionaries. We invite you to explore the many opportunities to serve our community, by sharing your talents, skills, and expertise. You'll join a diverse team of over 1300 individuals dedicated not just to making a career, but a difference; because what we create in High Point, changes the world!

Our Core Values:

• Stewardship: We manage the city's resources responsibly and make decisions that sustain High Point's future.
• Welcoming: We create a friendly, open environment where residents, partners, and visitors feel valued and embraced. We want everyone who connects with High Point to feel welcomed, like they belong here.
• Integrity: We act with honesty, transparency, and ethical responsibility in everything we do. That means doing what's right – even when no one's watching. This is how we earn our community's trust.
• Productivity: We stay focused on results, fostering creativity, innovation, and outside-the-box thinking. We don't just get things done – we find smarter, better ways to do them.

What We Offer:

The City of High Point offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. We also offer generous benefit package for full-time employees which include but are not limited to:

• A guaranteed life-long monthly pension, once vested after 5 years of service
• 401K and 457B Retirement Plans
• PTO earned within first year
• 13 Paid Holidays per year
• Tuition Reimbursement Plan
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision plans effective day one

What You'll Do:

Performs routine unskilled work at the landfill convenience site, including assisting customers, directing waste disposal, and maintaining a clean and safe environment. Serves as a primary point of contact for the public by providing clear instructions on proper disposal procedures and ensuring compliance with site rules. Monitors incoming materials for permitted waste and helps maintain efficient traffic flow within the facility. Work is performed outdoors in varying weather conditions with a focus on safety and customer service under the direct supervision of the Landfill Supervisor.

Essential Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Provides courteous, face-to-face customer service through clear verbal communication. • Assists and directs customers to proper waste disposal areas. • Inspects incoming materials to ensure compliance with permitted waste guidelines, redirects non-compliant materials appropriately. • Directs and controls incoming and outgoing traffic to maintain safe and efficient flow within the facility. • Maintains cleanliness of disposal areas, including sweeping and general upkeep around containers. • Enforces site rules, including prohibiting scavenging, and educates customers on proper disposal procedures. • Performs janitorial and general cleanup duties as assigned. • Assists with instructing temporary workers on daily tasks and ensures work is completed safely and efficiently. • Collects litter on and around landfill property to maintain a clean environment. • Follows all OSHA regulations and City safety policies to ensure a safe work environment. • Conducts routine vehicle and equipment inspections to meet state and federal requirements. • Assists with operations at other locations as needed. • Works extended hours, including during adverse weather and emergency events, as required. • Must be able to complete other assigned tasks as needed such as delivering deposits, monitoring temporary workers, and gathering materials

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

• Valid Driver's License
• Ability to lift 50 pounds.
• Ability to direct the activities of others working extended periods of time in all weather conditions.
• Must be able to ensure that all work is performed in accordance with OSHA and City Safety Standards and Policies.

Physical Requirements:

Hearing/Speaking

• Perceive nature of sounds by ear. Necessary to converse with supervisor, employees, and the public in person.

Visual Abilities

• Acuity, far – clarity of vision at 20 feet or more. Must be able to see vehicles from a distance as they approach.
• Acuity, near – clarity of vision at 20 inches or less. Must be able to see work related business close at hand.
• Depth perception – Three-dimensional vision. Ability to judge distance and space relationships to see objects where and as they are.
• Field of Vision – the area that can be seen up and down or to the right or left while eyes are focused on one point. Must be able to see a wide span of area.
• Accommodation – Must be able to adjust the eye lens to bring an object into sharp focus. This item is especially important when doing near-point work at varying distances from the eye.

Physical Strength –

• Medium Work:
• Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical demand requirements usually require walking, standing, bending, lifting, climbing, reaching, stooping, and stretching. There is significant use of arms, hands, legs, and feet.
• A negligible amount of force frequently, and/or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.

Type of Physical Demands

• Reaching – Extending the hand(s) or arm(s) in any direction.
• Handling – Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hand(s).
• Fingering – Picking, pinching, or otherwise working with fingers primarily rather than the entire hand or arm.

Mental Activity/Requirements Reasoning

• Ability to apply principles of logical thinking to practical situations and programs encountered in the day-to-day activities of the position. To comprehend and respond to a variety of situations in an expedient manner and at times under emergency conditions.
• Good judgement is required.

Mathematic Ability

• Ability to use numbers to complete daily log reports.

Language Ability

• Ability to speak, read, write and comprehend the English Language are required for this position.

Writing Ability

• Ability to write documentation associated with the job that could be used in reports.

Spoken Ability

• Ability to be conversant in voice and dictation to convey ideas. Be conversant with supervisors and the public.
• Must sometimes be forceful in the enforcement of landfill rules and/or policies.

Environmental Conditions

• The worker is subject to Inside and Outside Environmental conditions
• Protection from severe weather conditions but not normal conditions and temperature changes.
• Workers are required to work in extremely hot weather and extremely cold weather without much heat in the winter or air conditioning in the summer.
• The position is best suited for someone who doesn't mind getting hot, cold, wet, dirty, or sweaty.

Hazards

• • Employee will be exposed to municipal solid waste as well as various other items as discarded.
• Work is subject to final standards of OSHA on bloodborne pathogens.

Machinery/Tools/Work Aids/Other Equipment

• Trash bags, leaf blowers, rakes and shovels, lawn mowers, weed eaters, generators, various hand tools, electric tools, sprayers, air compressors, safety regulations, and other work aids common to the job

The work location of this job will be 3940 Kivett Dr Jamestown, North Carolina.

Our Commitments The City of High Point is dedicated to fostering a work environment that values individuals from all backgrounds and