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Job Tittle: Residential Route Driver-Warehouse

Blue Earth Compost is a residential, commercial, and event food scrap collection company. We collect food scraps from our customers and deliver them to a processing facility where they are turned into renewable energy and compost. We see food scraps as a valuable resource that can help improve our soil, water, and air.

About the Role:

This is a dual-purpose position that will focus both on the collection of food scraps from our residential customers within Hartford & New Haven County and on facilitating our warehouse operations. For the driving portion, you will be driving a delivery-style step van or pickup truck, depending on your route. For the warehouse portion, you will be tasked with cleaning collection receptacles and other general maintenance.

Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collecting from residential and small commercial customers in step van and/or pickup truck
• Performing pre-trip inspections of vehicle, ensuring that all equipment and supplies are stocked and in working order, and maintaining appearance of vehicle
• Using a cell phone app and GPS to track data about collections
• Loading and unloading trucks
• Delivering compost to customers
• Cleaning collection receptacles at the warehouse

Qualifications:

Requirements:

• Clean driving record with commercial driving experience
• Must be VERY reliable and able to start work at 7:30am
• Ability to maneuver containers that weigh up to 250lbs
• Ability to use a cell phone app to enter data and for GPS routing

Preferences:

• Knowledge and interest in composting and/or other environmental issues
• Willingness to perform or learn about other responsibilities in the business (i.e.driving larger vehicles and vehicle maintenance)
• Willingness to obtain a CDL with company support
• Motivated to better the Hartford, and greater CT, community through your work

All job requirements in this job description provided indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills, and/abilities deemed necessary to perform the job competently. Job descriptions are an overview of the duties, responsibilities, and requirements of the position. Employees may be required to perform other job-related assignments as requested.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: From $18.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Paid training
• Safety equipment provided
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hourshift
• Day shift
• Home daily
• Monday to Friday
• No nights
• Year roundwork

At Blue Earth Compost, we take great pride and passion in what we do. Ideally, we want to find someone who shares our drive to better our community and the world as a whole through their work. Our business operates like a family and we are looking for candidates that want a career in this kind of environment.

All potential applicants are encouraged to apply regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, ability, or other identity characteristics.

EEOC: Circular Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Circular Services is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Circular Services are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Circular Services will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.