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Job Description
Job Summary
The purpose of this position is to provide construction and maintenance support to the landfill and convenience areas as well as community events. This includes but is not limited to activities such as brush-pile management, roll-off container delivery to working face and to community, road sweeping, dust control with water truck, stockpiling dirt, concrete, wood, and aggregate material. Additionally, involves palletizing, loading, and unloading materials off of tractor trailer trucks and other duties as assigned. Requires significant interaction with other employees and residents of the City. An equipment operator in Solid Waste/Recycling/Landfill may work in any area of the landfill, or in areas of Solid Waste/Recycling responsibility in the community.
Essential Job Functions- Load and unload materials by operating equipment including, but not limited to track loaders, rubber tire loaders, compactors, roll-off truck, hook-lift truck, water truck and street sweeper.
- Maintain concrete roadways, as well as gravel roads, throughout the landfill by removing mud, sweeping, and dust control.
- Loading of metals for recycling, moving mulch, recycled dirt and aggregate and maintaining stockpiles, pushing brush, wood, concrete, and dirt with a front-end loader.
- Provide waste screening and traffic control by directing traffic at the worksite to provide for customer and employee safety and environmental compliance.
- Performs preventative maintenance by greasing equipment, cleaning filters, checking all fluids, inspecting undercarriage and tracks and cleaning equipment.
- All other duties as assigned by the Senior Facility Staff.
- Fire suppression support, such as moving dirt stockpiles, utilizing water truck, hydro seeder, refueling trailer and motor grader.
- All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.
- Regular and dependable attendance is required.
Minimum Qualifications- Education: High School Diploma or GED required for consideration.
- Experience: One year of experience required to be considered. Experience may be direct experience in Asphalt, Drainage or Concrete OR related experience which may include work typically outdoors including use of tools and/or machinery, construction work, warehouse work using forklifts or other similar type experience.
- Licenses: Valid Class B CDL Driver's License or must be able to obtain license within 180 days (6 months) of employment
Closing Date/Time: 11/13/2024 5:00 PM Central -
Special Instructions
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Grand Prairie
Show moreWelcome to the City of Grand Prairie! We Live Life Grand here – about 200,640 residents call Grand Prairie home, and we’re still growing. Grand Prairie is the 16th largest city in Texas and the 125th largest city in the United States, but we still have small town values. We are rated the #1 Best Place to Retire in the U.S., 2nd Happiest City in Texas, 5th Best City for First-Time Home Buyers in Texas, 7th Safest Large City in Texas, and in the Top 50 U.S. Best Place to
Raise a Family!We have attractions that draw almost 10 million visitors a year to:
- Epic Waters Indoor Water Park showcasing 80,000 square feet of year-round water fun referred to as a “cruise ship on land”
- The Summit Active Adult Center with state-of-the-art fitness training, indoor infinity edge pool with lap lanes and exercise vortex, theater, game room, sauna
- PlayGrand Adventures (10-acre, all-accessible playground) is an exciting opportunity to provide a safe and fun playground experience for all ages and abilities (open late 2019)
- Firehouse Gastro Park restaurant downtown (conversion of historic Firehouse #1)
- Lone Star Park Thoroughbred Horse Race Track
- The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue
- Historic Uptown Theater in downtown
- IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall
- Traders Village
- Lake Joe Pool
- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! And Palace of Wax
- Epic Central Park, a 172-acre park with five lakes, a Grand Lawn amphitheater, trails and a water and light show
- Chicken N’ Pickle
- Bolder Adventure Park
- The Epic Arts, Fitness and Entertainment Center with $1 million in cardio and strength training equipment, indoor walking/jogging track, group fitness and more
Grand Prairie recently welcomed more than 50 new restaurants and retail stores along SH 161, and development continues at a brisk pace. The city offers a vibrant lifestyle, with the best parks in the nation, more amenities than most, affordable to affluent housing and friendly neighbors.
City employees work hard to ensure Grand Prairie is known as an organization that creates Raving Fans by delivering world-class service. Our employee family and elected officials constantly live our values, aggressively move toward our vision and are always looking for ways to make the business of running a city even better.The hard work, positive input and optimism of all our city employees all play a key role in our success. We look forward to you joining our
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