Heavy Equipment Supervisor - G125 - Pine Grove Landfill

This position is responsible for supervising the operations in support of landfill activities.

• Planning, scheduling & conducting major earthmoving projects for Pine Grove Landfill.
• Training new and existing personnel on how to properly operate landfill equipment.
• Operating Landfill Heavy Equipment.
• Conducting environmental compliance repairs, slope stabilization, and maintenance.
• Establish and maintain a positive and professional working relationship with other divisions in order to utilize all City resources available.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of how weather and seasonal conditions may affect earthmoving project.
• Knowledge of erosion and sedimentation.
• Knowledge of landfill equipment.
• Knowledge of production regarding earthmoving activities.
• Knowledge of how to build slopes, berms, ditches, and roads.
• Knowledge of how to compact trash to optimal density.
• Knowledge of erosion and sedimentation.
• Knowledge of various soils, rock, and hydrology.
• Skill in clearing, grading, reading plans, building roads, loading, hauling, stockpiling, and land stabilization.
• Skill in organization and planning.
• Skill in communicating effectively.
• Skill in the operation of landfill equipment such as a dozer, finishing dozer, compactor, backhoe, loader, tractor, excavator, grinder, haul truck, and all equipment associated with landfilling activities.
• Skill in building a landfill to plan.

Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education. Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for at least five years. This position is required to supervise state inmate labor. The employee must pass the Department of Corrections three-day certification within the time frame required by this department, which is normally six months but may be altered. Possession of or ability to readily obtain a valid driver's license issued by the State of Georgia for the type of vehicle or equipment operated. Must obtain Commercial Driver's License within the first year of employment unless specified otherwise by the Waste Disposal Manager. The ability to obtain GA Landfill Operator Certification once employed may be required. The ability to obtain Blue Card for erosion and sedimentation also may be required.

The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, or stooping. The employee occasionally lifts heavy objects, climbs ladders, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, and must be able to distinguish between shades of color.

• Balancing maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Climbing ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
• Crouching bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
• Feeling perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Mental Acuity ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Standing for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.

The work is typically performed outdoors, occasionally in cold or inclement weather. The employee may be exposed to noise, dust, dirt, grease, irritating chemicals, contagious or infectious diseases, and machinery with moving parts. The work requires the use of protective devices such as masks, goggles, or gloves.