Solid Waste Maintenance Worker

Minimum Starting Salary: $17.2328 hourly - Depending on Qualifications

The City of Waco Seeks

A dependable individual to perform essential landfill and transfer station operations. The ideal candidate will be committed to maintaining a clean, safe, and efficient work environment while performing a variety of manual labor tasks.

• Valid Driver's License
• 1 year of experience in laborer work

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent

Under basic supervision, performs unskilled and heavy manual labor tasks associated with landfill and transfer station disposal operations.

• Performs litter collection, landscape, and landfill and transfer station maintenance.
• Constructs repairs and installs landfill and transfer station litter fences.
• Assists in loading and unloading vehicles and directing customers to assigned areas for disposal.
• Directs customers to appropriate locations within the landfill transfer station for waste disposal and explains procedures and regulations.
• Assists mechanics with a variety of basic tasks as required.
• Cleans, maintains, and accounts for basic tools.
• Operates light trucks and equipment. (Mowers, weed eaters, chainsaws, and sprayers).
• Obtains daily fuel tank readings.
• Coordinates temporary laborers in the collection of litter from the site.
• Will be required to respond after hours, including holidays and weekends, in the event of a departmental or City-wide emergency.