# Waste & Recycling Equip Op II

**Company**: Salt Lake City Corporation
**Location**: Salt Lake City, UT
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $23.57 - $31.04 per hour
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

The Waste & Recycling Equip Op II role is part of the Sustainability department at Salt Lake City Corporation. You will operate a variety of equipment including refuse collection equipment, automated side loaders, rear end loaders, flatbed stake trucks, 10-wheeler dump trucks, and wheel or front end loaders.

**Typical Duties:**

- Operate an automated refuse and/or rear load collection truck, completing assigned areas each day

- Assist residents approved for Yard Service program as needed

- Evaluate and document the operating condition of and perform routine maintenance on assigned equipment

- Troubleshoot and make minor repairs in the yard or on the job site

- Communicate progress, problems, and other issues to senior and lead equipment operators as needed

- Respond to citizens' special requests and complaints

**Additional Duties:**

- Operate a 10-wheeler, leaf truck, or perform the duties of labor flaggers on job site

- Operate a wheel loader or front-end loader to load debris into a 10-wheeler and rear load collection truck

- Operate a flatbed stake truck to deliver, remove or repair waste containers

- Collect material from the neighborhood special bulk item collection program

- Participate in the delivery, set up or clean up of special projects

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- Two years' related work experience as an equipment operator or the successful completion of the division's Waste & Recycling Equipment Operator training program plus 6 months of experience

- Extensive knowledge of preventative maintenance required for the equipment which will be operated

- Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Class B

- Ability to demonstrate proficient operations of multiple types of heavy equipment

- May be required to possess a flagger certification or have the ability to obtain within time specified by supervisor

- Required to push, pull or lift weights up to 75 pounds

- Ability to meet visual demands required to operate equipment, read street signs and markings, instructions, and safety rules

- Ability to write and perform arithmetic calculations to compute tonnage, mileage, or time

- Ability to relate well with co-workers, supervisors, and the general public in varying circumstances

## Skills

### Required
- Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Class B
- equipment operation
- preventative maintenance
- troubleshooting
- minor repairs
- communication
- problem-solving

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