Position Summary:
The rear Load Driver, under direction of the Rear Load Supervisor, distributes, collects, and empties company issued commercial waste receptacles for Sanitation customers.
Essential Functions:
- Performs and documents pre-trip and post-trip inspections of company issued vehicles
- Empties commercial waste receptacles as indicated on daily route sheet
- Opens and closes door on receptacles placed inside an enclosure
- Actively communicates any and all changes to daily route sheet to the dispatch team
- Notifies supervisor of any incidents, accidents, injuries, or property damage that may occur while completing activities on route
- Reviews and completes daily work orders
- Ensures accurate completion of route sheet and VCR by the end of each day
- Ability to proficiently navigate, in forward and reverse motion, driveways, alleyways, empty lots, high traffic roadways with potential limited overhead and compact areas.
- Ability to operate vehicles in accordance with OSHA (Occupational and Safety Health Act) and DOT (Department of Transportation) requirements as well as all local, state and federal laws
- Other duties as assigned
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Ability to safely operate a DOT vehicle
- Ability to push, pull, and lift up to 50 pounds, with or without assistance
- Ability to maneuver a container, placed on canisters, for service access
- Ability to proficiently operate a DOT vehicle in a reverse motion
- Ability to convey Sanitation as the obvious choice for our customers, employees and community
- Actively demonstrates Sanitation’s core values in daily tasks and communications: Professionalism, Respect,
Accountability and Communication.
- Ability to demonstrate decision making skills that align with Sanitation’s 4 Step Decision Making Process
- Ability to collaborate with coworkers
- Ability to prioritize activities in order to achieve, individual and team, expectations and goals
Education and Experience:
- Possess a valid Class A or B Driver’s License
- 2 years of professional commercial driving experience, preferred
Working Conditions:
This position will be based in an outdoor environment, exposed to the elements, with extended periods of standing, sitting, squatting, climbing, reaching, and lifting.
