Wm
Leading provider of comprehensive waste management services across North America.
Laborer Landfill
Performs landfill cleanup, traffic control, and material handling duties.
Job Highlights
About the Role
The landfill laborer’s primary responsibility is to maintain a clean and safe site, handling refuse, operating equipment, and directing traffic as required. The position requires adherence to local, state, federal, environmental, and health‑safety licensing regulations and the ability to meet physical demands such as lifting, walking, and operating machinery. • Manually collect windblown paper along landfill perimeter and load into large trash bags. • Operate a mobile vacuum mounted on a tractor to vacuum loose paper and refuse from fence and ground. • Direct truck traffic at the landfill entrance during peak summer periods using verbal and hand signals. • Lift and transport construction materials such as lumber, concrete mix bags, and operate hand tools including shovels, picks, axes, and chainsaws. • Separate metal, appliances, lumber, and cardboard on the tipping floor at the transfer station. • Meet physical demands of lifting, walking, and operating equipment in an outdoor landfill environment.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸paper collection
- ▸vacuum operation
- ▸traffic control
- ▸materials handling
- ▸sorting
- ▸site safety
What You Bring
• Hold required licenses and certifications as mandated by local, state, federal, environmental, and health/safety agencies.
Requirements
- ▸licenses
- ▸certifications
Benefits
The position works Monday‑Friday, 6 am‑4 pm with overtime as needed. WM emphasizes that a job here provides more than a paycheck—it creates opportunities for employees and their families. Team members perform essential, meaningful work on a stable, family‑like crew that is present on site every day. The role supports WM’s commitment to growth, offering education assistance and a range of benefits. WM provides a competitive total compensation package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term disability, a 401(k) match, stock purchase options, paid vacation, holidays, and personal days, with additional perks like dependent daycare and discounted stock options. The company also promotes sustainability through recycling, renewable energy initiatives, and a large natural‑gas truck fleet. • Receive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term disability, 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid vacation, holidays, and personal days. • Access annual education assistance benefit and discounted stock options.
Work Environment
Field