Solid Waste.Landfill Foreman

Polk County Florida is seeking a Landfill Foreman for their Winter Haven location. The role involves overseeing landfill operations, managing staff, and ensuring compliance with safety and environmental regulations. Responsibilities include monitoring performance metrics, training employees, and operating heavy landfill equipment. The position offers a salary of $29.40/hr, along with various employee benefits such as medical insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.
Landfill Foreman

(Solid Waste)

Pay Range: $29.40/hr. ($61,152.00/annually)
• *Internal candidates should apply via Polk One - Me Section **

Location: 10 Environmental Loop, Winter Haven, FL 33880

Employee Benefits
• Direct Deposit, Bi-Weekly Pay Checks
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Life Insurance
• FRS Retirement
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Education Incentives
• Deferred Compensation Plan
• Wellness Incentives
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Free Employee Gym
• Free Employee Health Clinic

Must have the physical, developmental, and mental ability to perform job tasks, work efforts, responsibilities, and duties of job illustrative below:

MAJOR FUNCTION:

Hands-on Landfill Foreman with operational experience on a wide variety of landfill heavy equipment vehicles that perform the spreading and compaction of 2,500 tons-per-day commercial and residential waste. This position requires overseeing the day-to-day processing and disposal operations of an active site and two remote small-closed sites and may include a transfer station operation. Maintains performance and productivity metrics such as safety, cycle times, soil/mulch allocation, and cost management processes. Adheres to local, state, and federal rules and regulations.

ILLUSTRATIVE DUTIES: Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned as needed.
• Oversees the day-to-day operations, and provides daily support to landfill operators, environmental workers, and other landfill staff.
• Monitors landfill cycle time and operating metrics while diagnosing and improving processes, procedures, and performance.
• Executes necessary precautions to ensure safety and compliance with Waste & Recycling, FDEP, OSHA, and other standards and regulations.
• In coordination with the Landfill Operations Manager, ensures thorough root cause investigations for all injuries and incidents, following-up with recommendations for consistent discipline and retraining.
• Oversees personnel needs, including selecting, coaching, disciplining, and training employees. Provides input into performance outcomes.
• Motivates and provides performance feedback to field staff on a regular basis.
• Contributes to short and long-term goals and action plans in conjunction with Operations Manager.
• Recommends, develops, and implements programs for optimal equipment utilization, equipment maintenance, labor, and material costs.
• Interacts with customers and county agencies to ensure customer satisfaction, improve efficiency, and establishes Waste & Recycling’s good corporate citizen and valued resource.
• Works with Division Director and Operations Manager to resolve employee relations and labor relations issues.
• Documents daily activities records such as earth moving materials, equipment uptime, staffing, active area sequencing, and other landfill actions.
• Operates landfill equipment on a regular basis.

Oversight Responsibilities
• Oversight responsibilities required for this position are to ensure work is carried out as per plan and serve as a link between staff and management. This includes the daily operations of Landfill Operators, Environmental Workers, and temporary staff.

KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES, AND SKILLS:

Experience in a position involving operations (ability to operate numerous soil excavation/remediation/landfill equipment and work within a cohesive team/unit); customer service; health and safety (OSHA)programs; equipment specifications; managing high volume and traffic sites; resolving labor relations issues required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Education and Experience
• High School Diploma or GED (accredited).
• Five (5) years of work hands-on experience in construction or solid waste operations.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements
• Florida Driver’s License and TREEO within six months of employment

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

Below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job.
• Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc.) most of the workday.
• Required to exert physical effort in handling objects less than 50 pounds regularly.
• Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, exposure to waste, most of the workday.
• Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements most of the workday.
• Normal setting for this job is: shop or field.

This position may be required to report for work when a declaration of emergency has been declared in Polk County.

High School Graduate