Scale House Attendant

Southwest Waste Services is Southwest Florida’s premier recycling and collection company. Offering full service waste hauling, disposal, recycling, and site work services. With four waste disposal locations, Southwest Waste Services is a leader in construction and demolition debris recycling- with services designed to fit your needs. This is not a remote position.

What's in it for me? Hours between Mon - Fri 6am to 6pm, Sat 6am to 2pm, NO Sundays, Competitive Wages, Medical, dental, vision, and 401K eligible after 60 days, Vacation and PTO. Great working environment with a great TEAM!

Essential Job Functions: In this role, you will serve as the first point of contact for customers depositing material at a Southwest Facility; calculate payments, check loads, and ensures the safety of the customer and other employees by being observant and communicate safety rules and regulations.

*This job involves primarily sedentary work, requiring sitting most of the time with some standing/walking. The work may involve lifting up to 20 pounds at times.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Applicants should have the ability to use the scale and related point of sale software to process trucks entering and exiting the waste facility, document weights of loads, apply rates accordingly, collect fees and issue receipts. Applications should be able to ensure compliance with landfill regulations and policies, record data, maintain good housekeeping of the scale house, exhibit strong skills in verbal and written communication, exhibit organizational abilities and time management, demonstrate initiative and logic, exercise basic judgement, consistently deliver general customer service in a professional fashion, and perform other duties as assigned. This classification may require overtime, shift, weekend and holiday work, as well as flexible hours and rotating days.