How do they match: Recycling and Reclamation Workers

  • Prepare and sort materials or products for recycling. Identify and remove hazardous substances. Dismantle components of products such as appliances.

  • Operate forklifts, pallet jacks, power lifts, or front-end loaders to load bales, bundles, or other heavy items onto trucks for shipping to smelters or other recycled materials processing facilities.

  • Clean materials to prepare them for production.
  • Cut industrial materials in preparation for fabrication or processing.
  • Operate forklifts or other loaders.