Job Summary
Boston-based worker-owned cooperative seeks responsible professional CDL truck driver, for growing organic waste collection business. Apply for a good local driving job and get the opportunity to become a worker-owner with CERO, one of Boston’s most successful sustainable W/MBE businesses. The ideal candidate has experience driving trucks and makes safety a number one priority.
Responsibilities
- Perform routine safety inspections and preventative maintenance
- Adhere to the work schedule
- Comply with all company policies and driving laws
- Ability to safely operate a garbage truck on specified routes to collect organic waste.
- Ability to use routing app and service each customer identified on the app or assigned by the operations manager.
- Perform routine vehicle inspection and maintenance, such as checking fluids, safety equipment, and tires.
- Ability to perform a physically demanding job, loading and unloading.
- Operate hydraulic hand controls to lift/load refuse and dispose of waste at designated facilities.
- Courteous interaction with our customers and performing other miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
- This position requires strenuous physical work: heavy lifting, pushing, or pulling of objects over 100 pounds.
Qualifications
- Valid Class B CDL with air brakes endorsement.
- Minimum 2 years of experience that is directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.
- Basic knowledge of truck components in order to complete pre-and post-trip inspections.
- Familiarity with GPS systems, and service log apps.
- Understanding of all relevant truck driving laws and regulations
- Clean driving record
- Waste management experience is preferred, but not required.
- Ability to pass a drug screening
WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL EFFORT:
- Extensive physical activity. Requires strenuous physical work; heavy lifting, pushing, or pulling required of objects over 100 pounds.
- The work environment involves exposure to physical risks such as moving mechanical parts. Which requires following basic safety precautions.
- The employee is exposed to outside weather, including frequent wet and/or humid conditions, as well as exposure to fumes and vibration. The noise level is usually moderate.
- A typical schedule for this position is Saturday and Sunday, 5:00 am to 12:00 noon, approximately 16 hours per week.
CERO does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors.
Our Story
CERO (Cooperative Energy, Recycling, and Organics) is an award-winning, worker-owned commercial composting company based in Boston, Massachusetts.
We provide food waste pickup and diversion services for commercial clients throughout Greater Boston, transporting organic material to local farms where it is recycled into soil products that support the local agricultural economy.
Our mission is simple: keep food waste out of landfills, help our clients reduce waste responsibly, and create living wage jobs in Boston communities.
CERO was built by a passionate group of Black and Brown Boston residents who believed that environmental sustainability and economic justice should go hand in hand. As a worker-owned cooperative, we are building a business where the people doing the work have a meaningful stake in its success.
About CERO
Founded in 2012, CERO is more than a compost hauler. We are committed to providing reliable, high-quality service while creating economic opportunity and strengthening our communities.
We take pride in making commercial composting easier, cleaner, and more accessible for businesses throughout Greater Boston.
Employment Opportunities
Join a Boston-based worker-owned cooperative and the 2018 Massachusetts Sustainable Business of the Year.
We are looking for dependable, capable people who take pride in their work, contribute to the team, and want to be part of a company focused on environmental and economic justice.
Employment at CERO includes the opportunity to participate in and benefit from worker ownership as part of our cooperative model.