Sanitation Supervisor at Town of Vienna – Vienna, Virginia

Essential Functions:

Recommends hiring, trains, motivates, coaches and evaluates employees; instructs, assigns and reviews work of employees; recommends salary increases and promotions, implements discipline; recommends termination.

Assigns, supervises, and instructs work crews in the collection and disposal of household refuse, curbside recycling, yard waste, brush, and bulk debris.

Ensures that all work is performed by staff using appropriate safety equipment and protection in accordance with established safety standards under proper safety conditions.

Responds to citizen questions and complaints regarding collections by telephone, radio, or written communication.

Monitors trash, recycling, brush/bulk pick up routes.

Completes injury and accident reports, as well as material and equipment reports.

Investigates incidents, accidents and injuries; and ensures proper operational and safety guidelines and procedures are followed.

Performs general administrative work such as attending and conducting meetings, compiling data for reports, preparing reports and correspondence, and entering computer data.

Operates a variety of vehicles such as, but not limited to, loaders, trash trucks, knuckle booms; and a variety of office equipment such as computer and telephone.

Provides training, assistance, coaching and guidance to work crews; ensures compliance with safety requirements.

Regularly travels to neighborhoods throughout the Town for special checks on standards of performance while work is in progress.

Performs updates and inputs to Town's maintenance management system concerning time log, equipment and materials used for maintenance, repair and/or replacement.

Additional Duties:
Coordinates with other departments and outside sources for temporary coverage when there is a staff shortage due to injuries, absences, or staff emergencies.

Interacts and communicates with various groups and individuals, such as internal staff, management, council members and the general public.

Performs work on holidays and in emergencies, including snow emergencies when needed; coordinates and supervises special event cleanups.

Collects recycling from Town buildings.

Maintains positive relations with co-workers and customers.

Performs related work as assigned or required.

Responsibilities, Requirements and Impacts

Data Responsibility:
Data Responsibility refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation. Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.

Coordinates or determines time, place or sequence of operations or activities based on analysis of data or information and may implement and report on operations and activities.

People Responsibility:
People include co-workers, workers in other areas or agencies and the general public.

Supervises or leads others by determining work procedures, assigning duties, maintaining harmonious relations, and promoting efficiency.

Asset Responsibility:
Assets responsibility refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization.

Requires responsibility and opportunity for achieving considerable economies and/or preventing considerable losses through the management of a large division or minor department.

Mathematical Requirements:
Mathematics requires the use of symbols, numbers and formulas to solve mathematical problems.

Uses addition and subtraction, multiplication and division and/or calculates ratios, rates and percentages.

Communications Requirements:
Communications involves the ability to read, write, and speak.

Reads journals, manuals and professional publications; speaks informally to groups of co-workers, staff in other organizational agencies, general public, people in other organizations and presents training; composes original reports, training and other written materials, using proper language, punctuation, grammar and style.

Judgment Requirements:
Judgment requirements refer to the frequency and complexity of judgments and decisions given the stability of the work environments, the nature and type of guidance, and the breadth of impact of the judgments and decisions.

Responsible for guiding others, requiring frequent decisions, affecting the individual, co-workers and others who depend on the service or product; works in a somewhat fluid environment with rules and procedures, but many variations from the routine.

Complexity of Work:
Complexity addresses the analysis, initiative, ingenuity, concentration and creativity, required by the job and the presence of any unusual pressures present in the job.

Performs semi-skilled work involving set procedures and rules, but with frequent problems; requires normal attention with short periods of concentration for accurate results or occasional exposure to unusual pressure.

Impact of Errors:
Impact of errors refers to consequences such as damage to equipment and property, loss of data, exposure of the organization to legal liability, and injury or death for individuals.

The impact of errors is moderately serious – affects work unit and may affect other units or citizens.

Physical Demands:
Physical demands refer to the requirements for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement.

Performs light work that involves walking or standing most of the time and involves exerting up to 50 pounds of force on an occasional basis. Skill, adeptness and speed in the use of fingers, hands or limbs on repetitive operation of mechanical or electronic office or shop machines or tools within moderate tolerances or limits of accuracy.

Equipment Usage:
Equipment usage involves responsibility for materials, machines, tools, equipment, work aids, and products.

Supervises the handling/use of machines, tools, equipment or work aids involving extensive latitude for judgment regarding attainment of a standard or in selecting appropriate items.

Unavoidable Hazards:
Unavoidable hazards refer to the job conditions that may lead to injury or health hazards even though precautions have been taken.

Involves routine and frequent exposure to extreme heat and/or cold; wet or humid conditions.

Safety of Others:
Safety of others refers to the level of responsibility for the safety of others, either inherent in the job or to ensure the safety of the general public.

Requires considerable responsibility for the safety and health of others.

Requires High School graduation or GED equivalent supplemented by specialized courses/training equivalent to completion of one year of college in Waste Management, Municipal Refuse Collection or closely related area.

Requires six years full time refuse collection and disposal experience, two of which are administrative/supervisory, or other closely related experience.

Must have demonstrable experience and capability in the use of software and electronic tablets.

Valid State Commercial Driver's License (Class B).

The Town of Vienna is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires the Town of Vienna to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are encouraged to discuss ADA accommodations with management.