Team Member I - Lancaster RC 705

OREGON BEVERAGE RECYCLING COOPERATIVE•Salem, OR

About The Position

As a BottleDrop Team Member I, you’ll help create a positive customer experience while supporting Oregon’s recycling efforts. You’ll provide friendly, professional service and operate equipment used to sort, count, compact, and move beverage containers for redemption. The position combines customer assistance, facility upkeep, container processing, data entry, and safe equipment operation.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent education.
Ability to work in a physical, fast-paced environment.
Ability to work well in a team environment.
Effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate professionally with employees and BottleDrop customers.
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced hourly workforce environment where schedules, staffing levels, and operational demands frequently change.
Frequently lift or carry up to 30 pounds and occasionally lift or carry up to 50 pounds.
Frequently push or pull more than 50 pounds.
Ability to stand, walk, bend, stoop, crouch, squat, use arms, wrists, and hands, and occasionally climb and balance.
Ability to meet the job’s vision requirements, including close, distance, and color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and adjusting focus.
Ability to talk and hear frequently and use approved hearing protection in designated areas.

Nice To Haves

Work experience in a warehouse or production environment.
Customer service and/or cash handling experience.
Experience in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Assist BottleDrop customers with kiosks, payment slips, bags, tags, stream counts, hand counts, and reverse vending machines (RVMs).
Maintain the appearance of the facility, inside and outside, including cleaning floors, counters, machines, windows, doors, the break room, and restrooms, and storing supplies properly.
Educate customers about Oregon’s Bottle Bill and the BottleDrop system.
Enforce daily limits professionally and considerately.
Operate manual and electric pallet jacks and/or a tote stacker.
Safely load and unload trailers with totes, pallets, and other items as needed.
Load, unload, push, and maneuver full and empty product bag racks.
Lift and empty beverage-container bags from racks into sorting or compactor equipment.
Stack aluminum bricks onto pallets and secure them with banding.
Complete data entry and process beverage containers, including receiving and processing green bags, accurately and efficiently in accordance with productivity standards.
Safely operate, maintain, and troubleshoot BottleDrop equipment; escalate repair issues when necessary.
Process and record container counts accurately while meeting established productivity standards.
Clean and maintain the work area and equipment to ensure a safe work environment.
Maintain a clean and well-organized work and loading area.
Follow OSHA safety standards and company policies, including personal protective equipment (PPE) and Lock Out Tag Out procedures.
Maintain punctual attendance.
Perform other job duties as assigned.