Scalehouse Operator

GFL Environmental Inc.; Georgia; On-site; USD 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

GFL Environmental Inc. in Georgia seeks a landfill operations support role to weigh trucks, issue permits, and provide precise data for customer billing and management reporting.

You will verify hauls, dispatch disposal instructions, and keep management informed on community information while performing routine scale checks and environmental compliance tasks.

Qualifications

• Requires ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Responsibilities

• Weigh in and out all trucks that enter the landfill or transfer station.
• Set up new trucks and issue truck permits.
• Provide accurate and efficient information for customer billing to include reports to customers and management.
• Verify accuracy of hauls and disposal for payment of third-party truck hauling.
• Accurately dispatch proper instructions regarding disposal of special waste with operators and Operations Manager.
• Keep landfill management apprised on any community information regarding the landfill.
• Test the scales daily for accuracy.
• Ensure the accuracy of waste disposed of in proper areas (grid reports).
• Accountable for various environmental compliance tasks.

Skills

Arithmetic skills

Data interpretation

Attention to detail

Physical stamina

Good communication

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• Weigh in and out all trucks that enter the landfill or transfer station
• Set up new trucks and issue truck permits
• Provide accurate and efficient information for customer billing to include reports to customers and management
• Verify accuracy of hauls and disposal for payment of third-party truck hauling
• Accurately dispatch proper instructions regarding disposal of special waste with operators and Operations Manager.
• Keep landfill management apprised on any community information regarding the landfill.
• Test the scales daily for accuracy.
• Ensure the accuracy of waste disposed of in proper areas (grid reports).
• Accountable for various environmental compliance tasks

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or general education degree (GED)
• One to three months related experience and/or training.
• Experience with customer service preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Physical/Mental Demands:

• Ability to sit, stand, walk, use hands and fingers, reach, talk, and hear.
• Visual Requirements: include close vision and distance vision.
• Possess ability to occasionally lift/move up to 10 pounds.

Working Conditions:

• Frequently exposed to outside weather conditions.
• Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes and airborne particles.
• Noise level is moderate to loud.