Duties, Functions and Responsibilities: - Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned. - Picks up, processes, or disposes of trash, brush, litter, recyclables, bulky items, re-use items, or compostable items and dumps collected materials at designated dump sites/landfill. Maintains dedicated bus lanes and bikeways on residential and major streets in City of Austin. - Pre-trips all vehicles and heavy equipment, as required by management; maintains detailed vehicle and equipment records; and completes paperwork, forms, and reports related to collection activities. - Learns and follows routes, reads street maps, and micro-routes to locate route destinations. - Assists in training others in the proper use of equipment and vehicles, as required by management. - Operates Water Truck, Rear-Loading Refuse Truck, Dump Truck, and other Austin Resource Recovery ( ARR ) vehicles and equipment as needed. - Performs basic vehicle inspections and maintenance and maintains vehicle records. - Uses hand tools such as backpack blower, rake, shovel, and sweep to stack, load, and unload smaller debris and litter. - Decides whether to pick up trash that is set out improperly. Provides information to customers when appropriate. Places customer notices, door hangers, and public information literature. - Cleans up illegal dump sites, parkland, targeted encampment sites and other sites with high volume of trash-related complaints or concerns throughout the City of Austin. - Follows safety rules. Observes and reports accidents, burglaries, and hazardous situations. - Assists other ARR crews as directed and performs other duties as assigned and performs the tasks of ARR Associates and Operator Trainees as needed. Responsibilities – Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised: None Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: - Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed. - Knowledge of equipment and vehicles used in waste services. - Skill in establishing and maintaining good working relationships with others. - Skill in operating power tools. - Skill in using small hand tools. - Skill in learning simple tasks. - Skill in lifting and carrying equipment or materials applicable to the work being performed. - Skill in reading and writing English necessary to the level of tasks performed. - Ability to understand oral and written instructions in English. - Ability to operate required vehicles safely. - Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions. - Ability to train or assist in the training of employees as required by management. - Ability to read, understand, and follow maps and mapping directions.