SOLID WASTE CREW LEAD - LANDFILL

Location: Rapid City, SD

Job Summary: This position is responsible for operating and directing the daily landfill tipping face operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operates and directs daily landfill operations, under supervision of Landfill Operations Supervisor.
• Prepares operator schedule to coincide with landfill operations.
• Maintains landfill equipment operations and communicates maintenance with the MRF and Public Works Maintenance staff.
• Operates landfill traffic patterns and rolling stock equipment.
• Prepares and maintains operations reports by inputting data and information into daily logs and computerized databases.
• Recommends and maintains supplies.
• Assures landfill personnel and equipment safety through planning and conducting safety meetings.
• Supervises shipments of recyclables and compost. Oversees quality control on recycling and compost operations.
• Works with Landfill Environmental Technician to facilitate storm water/erosion control projects.
• Carries out Crew Lead responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) and five (5) years related experience as a heavy equipment operator/operation. Previous experience in a lead worker or supervisory role in a related work environment strongly preferred.
• Must possess a valid South Dakota Class A Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) or ability to obtain within 30 days from date of hire.
Must obtain a Solid Waste Associate of North America (SWANA) Compost Landfill Inspector or Manager of Landfill Operations (MOLO) certificate within two years from date of hire.

Work Environment:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is:

• Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions and vibration.
• Regularly required to talk or hear and taste or smell.
• Frequently required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms, and lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
• Occasionally required to stand; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or craw. Lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.