WEIGHSCALE OPERATOR

City of Toronto; Toronto; On-site; CAD 43,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Toronto is hiring for a permanent, full-time position with Solid Waste Management Services at the Dufferin Transfer Station. You will operate weigh scales and related equipment, issue tickets, collect fees, and verify loads to ensure compliance with site rules.

This role requires strong cash handling, data entry, and public-facing communication. You will work 40 hours per week with rotating shifts, including afternoons and weekends, and may work alone or in a team.

Qualifications

• Considerable experience in a front-line customer service environment.
• Considerable experience handling cash, debit and credit card transactions and point-of-sale terminals.
• Experience with performing basic mathematical calculations to determine tipping fees and minimum deposits.
• Experience performing high volume data entry with strong computer skills in CompuWeigh (CW), Microsoft Outlook.

Responsibilities

• Operates computerized weighscales (with related equipment) to gather data, issue tickets, charge/collect fees to/from vehicles, delivering or transferring solid waste/recycling materials.
• Ensures all vehicles comply with site regulations.
• Ensures proper validation of loads through Radiation Detection equipment and reports incidents to site management.
• Establishes identity of customer, gathers and enters information (i.e. material type, source/destination, gross/tare weights, payment type etc.), applicable to load.
• Verifies receipt information, validates deposit amount, identifies and processes payment type, which may include processing of debit/credit card payments, reconciles point-of-sale terminals, generates daily scale reports, reconciles point-of sale batch reports and prepares bank deposit slips for pickup.
• Responds to in-person and telephone enquiries, e.g. operating procedures, regulations, fees etc.
• Obtains signatures on printed/manual receipts from drivers and/or cardholders and issues paperwork for border crossing.
• Totals, balances and verifies cash/charge intake and total loads with computer data and completes daily activity reports and financial summary.
• Validates the authenticity of letters of hospital waste and clearly marks the Dump Authorization Ticket.
• Opens and closes scale-house and sets alarms and cleans weighscale equipment as required.

Skills

Front-line customer service

Cash handling

Data entry

Microsoft Outlook

Tools

CompuWeigh (CW)

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

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Job ID: 66748
Job Category: Operations & Maintenance
Division & Section: Solid Waste Management Services, SWM Transfer Stations & Landfill Ops
Work Location: Dufferin Transfer Station - 35 Vanley Crescent, North York, ON M3J 2B7
Job Type & Duration: Permanent, Full-Time
Hourly Rate and Wage Grade: $31.21 - $34.06, TF4337, Wage Grade 5.0
Shift Information: 40 hours per week, Monday to Saturday, rotating shifts (24 Hour Operations)
Affiliation: L79 Full-time
Number of Positions Open: 1
Posting Period: 01-Oct-2026 to 15-Oct-2026

Major Responsibilities:

Reporting to the General Supervisor, the primary functions associated with this position include, but are not limited to:

• Operates computerized weighscales (with related equipment) to gather data, issue tickets, charge/collect fees to/from vehicles, delivering or transferring solid waste/recycling materials.


• Ensures all vehicles comply with site regulations.


• Ensures proper validation of loads through Radiation Detection equipment and reports incidents to site management.


• Establishes identity of customer, gathers and enters information (i.e. material type, source/destination, gross/tare weights, payment type etc.), applicable to load.


• Verifies receipt information, validates deposit amount, identifies and processes payment type, which may include processing of debit/credit card payments, reconciles point-of-sale terminals, generates daily scale reports, reconciles point-of sale batch reports and prepares bank deposit slips for pickup.


• Responds to in-person and telephone enquiries, e.g. operating procedures, regulations, fees etc.


• Obtains signatures on printed/manual receipts from drivers and/or cardholders and issues paperwork for border crossing.


• Totals, balances and verifies cash/charge intake and total loads with computer data and completes daily activity reports and financial summary.


• Validates the authenticity of letters of hospital waste and clearly marks the Dump Authorization Ticket.


• Opens and closes scale-house and sets alarms and cleans weighscale equipment as required.

Key Qualifications:

Your application must describe your qualifications as they relate to:

• Considerable experience in a front-line customer service environment.


• Considerable experience handling cash, debit and credit card transactions and point-of sale terminals.


• Experience with performing basic mathematical calculations to determine tipping fees and minimum deposits.


• Experience performing high volume data entry with strong computer skills in CompuWeigh (CW), Microsoft Outlook.

You must also have:

• Ability to work shifts, including afternoon, midnights and weekends and may be required to work alone or in a team environment.


• Ability to simultaneously handle a multitude of tasks that require immediate attention and are time sensitive.


• Ability to sit and operate a computerized weighscale system for extended periods of time.


• Ability to operate computerized weighscale, radiation detection devices and radio frequency identification system.


• Strong administrative, financial and organizational skills.


• Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing with staff, public and private sector customers.


• Ability to maintain a high level of service to public and private sector customers.


• Ability to prioritize and work under time constraints in high pressure situations.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

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