Driver Helper

Driver Helper

The Recycling Route Helper assists the driver by safely loading bins and materials onto the truck, ensuring proper organization and safety procedures. This role involves heavy lifting, walking, and working in various weather conditions. Key duties include route navigation, performing physical labor, adhering to safety guidelines, and maintaining a clean work area.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities :

• Ride along assigned recycling collection routes with driver.
• Load and unload recyclable materials, (such as paper, plastics, glass, metals).
• Ensure proper handling of bins, carts, and containers to prevent spills or damage.
• Identify and separate non-recyclable materials when necessary.
• Provide excellent customer service and respond to residents' or businesses' questions courteously.
• Assist with navigating routes and ensuring all stops are completed.
• Comply with safety policies, procedures, and regulations at all times.
• Report any route issues, accidents, or hazards to the driver or supervisor, promptly.
• Processing equipment cleanup at the end of each shift.

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Working Conditions :

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 accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and / or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and / or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and / or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

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.