MRF Worker I

Compensation Range $16.78 - $21.50

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. In other words, we take care of what we have today to build what we’ll need tomorrow
• 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:

Be part of the team that turns waste into resources! As a Materials Recovery Facility Worker, you’ll keep things moving by directing trucks, sorting and handling recyclables, and keeping our facility clean and safe. Every day, your work helps protect the environment and support a cleaner community.

Essential Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Directs traffic and guides truck operator to different areas of the tipping floor;
• Separates recycling materials including cardboard, wood, scrap metal, white goods, aluminum cans, glass, plastics by type and steel cans;
• Identifies and separates usable cardboard;
• Assists in handling of tipping floor traffic;
• Receives recycling tickets from truck drivers;
• Cleans tipping floor area, bathrooms, breakrooms, offices, conveyor pits, cat walks, OCC screen, Ballistic separator, and picks up litter outside of the facility;
• Receives, unloads, weights, and stacks electronic and other recyclable materials;
• Ensures that all work is performed in accordance with OSHA and city Safety Standards and Policies.

Qualifications:

Physical Requirements
Hearing/Speaking – Talking – Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken word. Hearing – Perceiving nature of sounds by ear. Both necessary to insure safety for other employees and the public.
Visual Abilities – the ability to perceive the nature of objects by the eye. Recommended guidelines for vision are:

• Acuity, far – clarity of vision at 20 feet or more. Must be able to see vehicles, for safety reasons, as they approach. Both eyes 20/25 – R 20/30 – L 20/30 corrected.
• Acuity, near – clarity of vision at 20 inches or less. Must be able to see various materials to separate for recycling. Both eyes 20/22 corrected.
• Depth Perception – three-dimensional vision. Ability to judge distance and space relationships to see objects where and as they are. Must be able to judge distances when working on the catwalk.
• Field of vision – area that can be seen up and down or the right or left while eyes are fixed on a given point. Must be able to see wide span of area to cover immediate work area and surrounding area to insure safety.
• Accommodation – adjustment of lens of eye to bring an object into sharp focus. This is especially important when doing near-point work while glancing up to check entire work area. Must be able to adjust the eye lens to glance quickly from recycling materials to people who are located on the tipping floor.

Physical Strength – degree of physical demands typically associated with this position include:

• Medium Work
• Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and /or 20 pounds frequently;
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Types of Physical Demands

• Walking, standing, bending, and lifting, climbing stairs, working on high platforms and having good hand/eye coordination;
• Reaching – Extending the hand(s) or arm(s) in any direction.
• Handling – Seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise working with hand or hands (fingering not involved).
• Fingering – picking, pinching, or otherwise working with fingers primarily rather than the whole hand or arm.
• All are requirements of this job.

Mental Activity/Requirements

• Reasoning – Ability to apply principles of logical thinking to work tasks and directives given by supervisor; to comprehend and respond to a variety of situations in an expedient manner obeying safety regulations at all time. Good judgment is important.
• Mathematics Ability – Minimum- basic counting skills.
• Language Ability – the ability to speak, read and write the English Language are required for this position.
• Ability to read and follow safety regulations.
• Ability to converse in voice and diction over hand held radio to direct truck operator to various areas within the facility, to communicate with other employees and to call out in case of danger.

Environmental Conditions
Physical Surroundings

• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions. Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. Worker is required to work in extremely hot weather and extremely cold weather without heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer. The position is best suited for someone who doesn't mind getting hot, cold, wet, dirty and sweaty.

Hazards

• Employee will be exposed to trash and garbage as well as various other items as discarded. Work is subject to final standards of OSHA on bloodborne pathogens.
• Machinery, Tools, Equipment, and Work Aids which may be representative, but not all inclusive, of those commonly associated with this type of work. Brooms, shovels, rakes, mops, squeegees, leaf blower, Personnel Resolution Manual, MRF Policies.

The work location of this job will be 5875 Riverdale Rd Jamestown, North Carolina.

Our Commitments
The City of High Point is dedicated to fostering a work environment that values individuals from all backgrounds and seeks to attract and retain the most qualified partners in service to the citizens of High Point. As an at-will employer, the City allows employees to terminate their employment, or be terminated at any time, with or without cause, as long as it is not prohibited by law.

The City of High Point is committed to classifying and compensating its employees fairly for the work they do, weighing both the internal capabilities and the external market. While the job description is not intended to and does not create a contract of employment, we are excited to use this “living document” as a guide for managing performance and positions to ensure job descriptions are reflective of the current work required by the incumbent or expected by any candidate to whom an offer of employment is extended.

The City of High Point is committed to providing a safe, comfortable working environment for all employees. To that end, we are proud to comply with all Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements, as well as make reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees as we are able in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Candidates selected for employment must undergo (a.) a drug screening, in accordance with the City’s drug and alcohol policy and (b.) a background screening to determine whether there is any current, pending, or previous charge, conviction or other infraction deemed incompatible with service in the capacity for which the candidate is being hired. In lieu of or in addition to background screening, candidates selected for employment in a position that requires working with children in any capacity must be fingerprinted and undergo a criminal history record check conducted by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Certain positions are considered so critical to the health and safety of others that a candidate cannot be placed in any such position without passing a pre-placement physical exam. The City offers employment to successful candidates conditioned upon the City’s receipt of satisfactory results from all required screenings, checks, and exams, as applicable.