Recycle Yard Sorter

JOB TITLE: SORTER

LOCATION: Santa Barbara

MarBorg Industries is a local family-owned and operated business. We are seeking a hardworking, reliable individual to work full-time as a Sorter in our recycling facility and as a Helper for residential routes. This role involves sorting materials in the yard and assisting drivers on residential collection routes as needed. The ideal candidate is safety-conscious, physically capable, and able to work in a fast-paced outdoor environment.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to the following:

• Manually sort material from the conveyor and into designated bins.
• Empty sorted material containers as needed.
• Assist coworkers as needed with heavy or bulky items.
• Maintain a clean work area.
• Assist driver with curbside trash and recycling collection in an efficient and safe manner.
• Attend weekly safety meetings.
• Ability to adhere to work schedule.
• Must be flexible to work early and late hours depending on workload.
• Completes special projects that the on-site manager may assign and prioritize.
• Safely perform duties in compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations and company policies.
• Comply with OSHA regulations when using hazardous chemicals on company premises; comply with company safety regulations.
• Perform other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Must be capable of learning specific sorting and material handling procedures.
• Ability to stand for eight-plus hours per day.
• Must be able to communicate and understand instructions.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be a dependable, self-motivated individual.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:  6 months of relevant work experience, no education required. 

CORE COMPETENCIES: 

• Doing Good:  Maintains and promotes integrity and values in conduct of all activities.
• Making Good: Takes responsibility and ownership for a problem, project, or issue.
• Treating Our People Well: Proactively seeks and finds ways to provide extraordinary service. Fosters respect for all individuals and points of view. Works cooperatively and effectively with others to achieve common goals characterized by pride, trust, and commitment.
• Observant: Ability to identify safety or operational deficiencies and to quickly implement a correction.
• Safety Matters: Actively participates in creating a safe and healthy workplace for our employees and our customers.
• Environmentally Focused: Takes initiative to preserve and improve our local environment for future generations. Makes everyday Earth Day.

NEAT JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES: Flexibility, Dependability, Attention to detail, Teamwork

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. 

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. 

REASONING ABILITY:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

CERTIFICATIONS: None.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; use hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance for long periods of time on concrete floors; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 75-100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and peripheral vision

 WORK ENVIRONMENT:  We are a drug free & alcohol-free work environment.  

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes, or airborne particles, and outside weather conditions.  The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; vibration, exposed to wet and/or humid conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud and dirty. Required to put on protective outfits, like gloves, safety footwear, safety eyeglasses, earplugs, and hardhat.