General Laborer

Waste Connections

43d•Onsite

About The Position

Waste Connections is looking for a safety-conscious Laborer to join our GROWING team at Turkey Creek Landfill at Alvarado, TX. The pay is $18.00 per hour, working 50-55 hours a week. We offer an environment where empowered, self-directed All-stars know what they do is important. Our definition of integrity is "saying what you will do and then doing it!" We keep our promises to our customers and our employees. Waste Connections is an integrated solid waste services company that provides solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly exclusive and secondary markets. Our goal is to create an environment where self-directed, empowered employees strive to consistently fulfill our constituent commitments and seek to create positive impacts through interactions with customers, communities, and fellow employees. People who want to gain valuable professional experience will find that Waste Connections is a fantastic place to work. You’ll enjoy the opportunity for beneficial training and professional development opportunities that can help enhance your skills and lead the way to a more promising future. We operate a highly decentralized structure, so we look for energetic individuals who can demonstrate individual initiative and creativity and prefer a work hard/play hard team environment and culture. At Waste Connections, diversity and inclusion are essential to our success. We hire and empower great, capable people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lead with our values. For more than 20 years, we have maintained a culture of safety, integrity and service to build a great place to work. Our culture is built on taking care of each other and the communities we serve.

Requirements

Ability to adhere to Company policies and rules that are set forth; promotes the Company’s safety standards; work with a sense of honesty, integrity and trustworthiness.
Ability to adhere to work schedule and follow through on challenges as they arise
One year of stable employment history in a similar environment.

Responsibilities

Checking trucks in and out of the landfill and directing traffic at site as necessary.
Manual labor including paper picking, keeping landfill clean and presentable.
Perform yard work including cutting weeds.
Install temporary wind fences as required.
Perform general office maintenance and repairs including painting and janitorial work.
Working outside in all weather conditions.
Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.