Laborer

Waste Management, Inc. (WM)•Morgan Hill, CA

3h•Onsite

About The Position

The value of a WM job is more than a paycheck; it's a way to create opportunities for you and your family. WM offers stability, with team members performing essential and meaningful work and being home every day. The company is committed to growth, offering 100% tuition paid for benefits eligible employees and established career progression. WM (formerly Waste Management) is North America's leading provider of comprehensive environmental solutions, based in Houston, Texas. It is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity. Through its subsidiaries, WM provides collection, recycling, and disposal services to millions of residential, commercial, industrial, medical, and municipal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. With innovative infrastructure and capabilities in recycling, organics, and renewable energy, WM provides environmental solutions and collaborates with customers to help them pursue their sustainability goals. WM has the largest disposal network and collection fleet in North America, is the largest recycler of post-consumer materials, and is a leader in beneficial use of landfill gas, with a growing network of renewable natural gas plants and the most landfill gas-to-electricity plants in North America. Its fleet includes more than 12,000 natural gas trucks. Healthcare Solutions, a subsidiary, provides collection and disposal services of regulated medical waste, as well as secure information destruction services, in the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe. WM emphasizes being People First, Committed to Your Growth, Investing in You, a Family, Stable, and Always Working for a Sustainable Tomorrow.

Requirements

Licenses as required by Local, State, Federal, Environmental and/or Health/Safety Regulatory agencies.

Responsibilities

Manually picks up windblown paper from periphery of landfill.
Carries a large plastic trash bag and walks along the fenced border of the landfill, as well as on exterior land adjacent to the public property.
Pulls paper from the fence and lifts loose paper from the ground, depositing refuse in bag until full.
Uses mobile vacuum to gather loose paper and refuse.
Drives tractor pulling vacuum along the fenced border of the landfill, as well as on the exterior land adjacent to the public property.
Grasps the vacuum hose handle and guides to vacuum loose paper from the fence and ground.
When the immediate area is vacuumed, ascends the tractor cab and drives forward. Parks and descends the cab, repeating the vacuum process as necessary. Repeats these steps, working around the outer edge of the landfill.
During the summer months, when traffic at landfill is extraordinarily heavy, the laborer is stationed at the landfill entrance in a chair to direct the traffic.
Directs the flow of trucks.
Communicates with the drivers verbally or by hand signals.
Lifts construction materials for projects related to site maintenance i.e., lumber, bags of concrete mix, hand tools, etc.
Uses hand tools such as shovels, picks, axes and chain saws.
Manually separates metal, white goods, lumber and cardboard from trash on tipping floor at landfills with transfer station.