Refuse and Recycling Laborer

Place of Performance: Maintenance Facility located in Rockville MD 20850.

Responsibilities

• Assembling, cleaning, lifting, labeling and inventorying wheeled carts used in the City’s recycling and refuse programs.
• Collecting wheeled carts from City curbs and bringing them to the City collection vehicle.
• Using the semi-automated system on the City collection vehicle, lifting the wheeled carts such that 100% of their contents are placed in a City collection vehicle.
• Placing the wheeled carts back on the curb neatly, and in such a way as to not block pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
• Collecting bags and heavy containers of yard debris, leaves, weeds, grass clippings, shrubs, small stumps and small tree branches from City curbs and loading them in a City collection vehicle.
• Collecting scrap metal items and electronics from City curbs and loading them in a City collection vehicle.
• Collecting bulk refuse, including furniture, mattresses, brush, tree limbs (up to 8 feet long) from City curbs and loading them in a City collection vehicle.
• Collecting bulk leaves (spring and fall) from City streets utilizing vacuum truck technology.
• Ensuring that any spilled recycling or refuse is picked off the ground and placed in a City collection vehicle or container using shoveling, raking and sweeping as necessary.
• Preparing and cleaning City recycling and refuse vehicles and equipment.
• Collecting refuse and recycling items from City facilities and lands, including parks.
• Policing an area to pick up litter and refuse.
• Digging with shovels and picks.
• Lifting, loading and unloading material from or into trucks.
• Other labor-intensive refuse and recycling related tasks, as needed.
• Mowing, edging, landscaping as needed.

Work Schedule

• Laborers will be given rest breaks, restroom stops, and a lunch break during the work day. An eight hour work day (10 hours, 4 days/week for recycling and refuse workers) would include one morning and one afternoon 10-minute rest break and one 25-minute lunch break. These break times and amount would vary for shorter work shifts, at a minimum it is 10 minutes of rest for every four hours worked.
• Work shall generally be performed during the day shift. Laborers for recycling and refuse workers shall report no later than 8:00 am. Work will primarily be scheduled between 7:00 am and 5:00 pm.

Requirements

• Prior warehouse experience or construction background preferred but not required.
• Laborers, for recycling and refuse duties, are required to attend a City of Rockville Standard Operation Procedures (SOP) and safety training before commencing duties defined in this solicitation. This will occur at the beginning of the initial work day and annually thereafter.
• Laborers are expected to perform the duties they are assigned by the City Supervisor in the time allotted and in a safe manner.
• Physical requirements include the ability to lift, move, load/unload heavy tools and equipment in excess of 100 pounds occasionally and in excess of 50 pounds regularly and to work outside in all weather conditions, including extreme cold and extreme heat. Additionally, Laborers will be required to bend, lift, walk, and climb for prolonged periods of time.

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary, Contract

Pay: $23.84 - $28.71 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $24 - $29