General Laborer

Waste Connections is hiring a General Laborer for their Transfer Station in Commerce, CA. The role involves customer interaction, cash handling, and physical labor tasks on-site, with a schedule from Tuesday to Saturday. Starting pay is $21.00 per hour, with benefits including a 401k match and paid vacation. The position requires excellent customer service skills and the ability to perform physically demanding work throughout an 8-hour shift.
About the position

Mammoth Disposal, a Waste Connections company, is looking for a General Laborer to work out of different areas of our Transfer Station located in Mammoth Lakes, CA! The schedule is Tuesday-Saturday 7:00AM - 3:30PM at our Buyback Center, which occasional shift coverage of the Transfer Station/scale house from 6:30AM – 3:00PM or 10:30AM – 7:00PM Monday-Friday. Starting pay is $21.00 per hour. The pay range for this job category is $21.00-$22.00 per hour. This is a great opportunity for full time, year round work! We offer family benefits, 401k with a match and paid vacation. In this position you will be working very independently. You will be interacting with the public, doing cash-handling and computer work, and handling labor-intensive tasks on-site. Must have excellent customer service, as well as the ability to stand and do physically demanding work throughout an 8 hour shift. Waste Connections is an integrated solid waste services company that provides solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly exclusive and secondary markets. Our goal is to create an environment where self-directed, empowered employees strive to consistently fulfill our constituent commitments and seek to create positive impacts through interactions with customers, communities, and fellow employees. OUR PEOPLE MEAN EVERYTHING TO US Waste Connections is always working to protect the health of the communities we serve, and we are grateful for the hard work and dedication that you bring to your job every day. Working here means you are a safety-minded individual who is making important contributions on a daily basis that will make a positive impact on those around you. We appreciate that you are a person of integrity who takes pride in the work you do. Our Opportunities BUILD TALENT FROM WITHIN People who want to gain valuable professional experience will find that Waste Connections is a fantastic place to work. You’ll enjoy the opportunity for beneficial training and professional development opportunities that can help enhance your skills and lead the way to a more promising future. LET’S REALIZE YOUR GOALS TOGETHER Bring your passion to succeed and you’ll quickly discover that great opportunities are all around you. At Waste Connections, you’ll thrive if you are friendly, dedicated, and prefer a work hard/play hard culture that is focused on maintaining our reputation as the premier waste services company in the markets we serve. Bring your passion to succeed and you’ll quickly discover that great opportunities and people are all around you. We operate a highly decentralized structure, so we look for energetic individuals who can demonstrate individual initiative and creativity and prefer a work hard/play hard team environment and culture. At Waste Connections, diversity and inclusion are essential to our success. We hire and empower great, capable people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lead with our values. For more than 20 years, we have maintained a culture of safety, integrity and service to build a great place to work. Our culture is built on taking care of each other and the communities we serve.

Responsibilities
• Greet and direct all customers and employees upon entry to the center
• Supporting the buyback center with weighing, payments and sorting
• Sort recycling
• Calculating payments for customers
• Enter truck, car information into computer system
• Ensuring that customers and employees conduct all business in a safe manner and wear all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Data entry and answering phones as needed
• Ensuring that incoming garbage loads are safe and do not contain any inappropriate material
• Opening and closing the Transfer Station
• Cleaning, sweeping and pressure washing equipment
• Providing general upkeep of the Scale House
• Heavy lifting of equipment and material
• Learn to operate forklift and bobcat

Requirements
• Customer service skills and a great attitude
• Cash handling experience
• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Ability to stand throughout an 8 hour shift
• Ability to lift up to 50lbs pounds
• Ability to work in all weather conditions

Benefits
• family benefits
• 401k with a match
• paid vacation
• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending account
• long term & short term disability
• life insurance
• 401K retirement
• unlimited opportunities to "Connect with Your Future"