CLOSING DATE: Open Continuously with weekly reviews

POSITION: Short Notice Refuse Collection Driver

SALARY: $15.69 per hour

REPORTS TO Public Works Manager

LOCATION: Public Works, Omak, WA

Basic Functions: Performs driving and manual work in the collection, transport, and deposition of solid waste. Drives a specialized heavy truck with standard and automated loading capacity or other vehicle used in collecting garbage, refuse, and recyclables.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Training:

• Requires a high school diploma or GED and twenty-four (24) months prior experience operating light to medium duty trucks and banding equipment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• The position requires working knowledge of the practices used in the operation of a refuse collection truck and hydraulic equipment including two/three axle trucks with hydraulic lift capacity, knuckle boom truck, and compacting and banding equipment.
• Requires knowledge of State and City traffic regulations and the geography and street systems.
• Knowledge of occupational hazards and safety precautions.
• Requires knowledge of and skill at performing basic inspections, maintenance and servicing trucks.
• Requires knowledge of city ordinances and other regulations regarding solid waste collection and disposal.
• Requires sufficient math skills to record quantities, weights, and other numeric to document work activity.
• Requires sufficient English language skills to write and convey daily operations information to supervisors.
• Requires sufficient human relations skills to work cooperatively with peers and project a positive image of the department to commercial and residential customers.
• Requires the ability to carry out the objectives of the position and understand all work-related instructions.
• Requires the ability to follow specified routes when collecting refuse.
• Requires the ability to comply with work schedules that can vary and include weekends and holidays.
• Requires the ability to observe safe work practices and be alert to co-workers habits.
• Requires the ability to troubleshoot basic mechanical problems associated with trucks and equipment.
• Requires the ability to work with co-workers and the public.
• Requires the ability to work with and around unpleasant waste materials.

Note: Pursuant to Tribal Policy, if this position is safety sensitive it is subject to pre-employment drug testing. In addition, this position is subject to reasonable suspicion and post-accident drug testing.

TRIBAL MEMBER AND INDIAN PREFERENCE WILL APPLY; PREFERENCE WILL ALSO BE GIVEN TO HONORABLY DISCHARGED VETERANS WHO ARE MINIMALLY QUALIFIED.

If required of this position, you must possess and maintain a valid Washington State driver’s license and be eligible for the Tribes’ Vehicle Insurance. In addition, this position may be subject to pre-employment background clearances. If applicable, these clearances must be maintained throughout employment.

INFORMATION: Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Human Resources Office, P.O. Box 150, Nespelem, WA 99155, (509) 634-2296 diane.stensgar.hrs@colvilletribes.com