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Job Description
Job Summary
This position plans, organizes, supervises, oversees staff, maintenance, and repair at the Landfill/Solid Waste Facility. Other duties include responding to citizen inquires or complaints; and completing departmentally specific functions. The responsibilities include but are not limited to; completing administrative duties, conducting preventative maintenance, controlling workflow and quality, troubleshoot equipment & systems, establishing priorities, preparing state reports, and maintaining records for site compliance. This position performs as a working foreman ensuring safety at all work sites, safely performing the same skill set as those directed, and trains assigned staff in their functional areas.
Essential Job Functions- This position will fill in for the manager when the manager is off duty. This includes supervising staff and work crews by assigning work duties; prioritizing work activities; observing and monitoring work tasks; evaluating work performance, approving leave requests; providing training, conducting meetings; and providing advice or assistance as needed.
- Assists in monitoring field operations; inspecting work completed; ensuring equipment is inspected and maintained. Ensures operations and project work are completed by coordinating and scheduling contractors/activities; monitoring field operations; inspecting work completed; ensuring equipment is inspected and maintained, meeting all safety and environmental requirements; ensuring equipment and adequate materials are supplied to crews; ensuring the safety of employees through appropriate operating procedures; investigating complaints from customers; and providing assistance on and resolution of work problems.
- Assigns, prioritizes, and inspects work performed by staff. Establishes work priorities, goals, objectives, and schedules.
- Assists Technicians in troubleshooting and repairing mechanical, electrical, electronic, and Pneumatic components.
- Perform highly technical environmental compliance and technical tasks associated with wellfield monitoring and tuning, explosive gas monitoring, and LFG flare troubleshooting and monitoring with gas-analyzing equipment.
- Perform environmental compliance and technical tasks associated with leachate collection system, which include but are not limited to liquid level monitoring at risers, pulling and cleaning submersible pumps, reporting pump failures, coordinating, and scheduling repairs, maintaining records and communicating findings.
- In tandem with Landfill Operations Supervisor and Senior Crew Leader, this position will act in their capacity when they are off duty. This includes supervising staff and work crews by assigning
- work duties; prioritizing work activities; observing and monitoring work tasks; evaluating work performance, approving leave requests; providing training as needed; conducting meetings; and providing advice or assistance as needed.
- Informs Landfill Manager and operating department of the need for major repair expenditures
- Ensures operations and project work are completed by coordinating and scheduling contractors/activities; monitoring field operations; inspecting work completed; ensuring equipment is inspected and maintained, meeting all safety and environmental requirements; ensuring equipment and adequate materials are supplied to crews; ensuring the safety of employees through appropriate operating procedures; investigating complaints from customers; and providing assistance on and resolution of work problems. Coordinates with the Landfill Director and Landfill Manager for budgetary needs, requisitioning materials and providing specifications for needed equipment. Records and completes service requests, work activities orders; prepares damage/loss reports and injury reports and compiles various reports for management as well as various federal and state regulating entities; responds to emails; returns phone calls, attends meetings; and responds to onsite emergencies.
- Participates in employee hiring, training, performance assessment and disciplinary activities. Assesses physical risks associated with the workplace daily and mitigates risk. Provides fire-fighting leadership, training, and risk minimization. Provides leadership regarding first aid for customers and employees.
- Completes performance evaluations on subordinate employees
- Completes departmentally specific functions by setting up, organizing, and lecturing at special events such as CREW Camp; monitors infrastructure projects; maintains specific operations such as landfill and other facilities.
- Regular and consistent attendance and punctuality
- All other duties as assigned by the director/manager within your department/division.
Minimum Qualifications- Education: Minimum of a high school Diploma, GED or equivalent plus 6 months of advanced training or study.
- Experience: 3 years working with light, heavy equipment, and Landfill Gas & Leachate Equipment. Two years of experience working with schematic diagrams and diagnostic equipment. One Year of experience performing diagnostic, troubleshooting, and preventative maintenance on landfill gas and leachate equipment preferred.
- Licenses: Valid Texas class A commercial driver’s license must be obtained within 180 days from assignment.
- Certifications Required: Must possess EPA Freon Removal License within 30 days; Must possess and maintain MSW A License within six (6) months of employment.
The City offers a full range of benefits for full time employees, including, but not limited to the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide. Summary of Benefits
Closing Date/Time: 5/20/2025 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:
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- 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)
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- The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue
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- IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall
- Traders Village
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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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