How do they match: Recycling and Reclamation Workers

  • D and D Waste Operations Specialist
  • Deconstruction and Decontamination Waste Operations Specialist
  • Scrap Metal Processing Worker
  • Transfer Station Operator

  • Operate automated refuse or manual recycling collection vehicles.
  • Operate balers to compress recyclable materials into bundles or bales.
  • 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.
  • Operate processing equipment, such as fiber-sorters and grinders, to sort, crush, or grind recyclable materials.
  • Operate shredders to reclaim steel from discarded appliances.
  • Clean materials, such as metals, according to recycling requirements.
  • Collect and sort recyclable construction materials, such as concrete, drywall, plastics, or wood, into containers.
  • Sort metals to separate high-grade metals, such as copper, brass, and aluminum, for recycling.
  • Sort materials, such as metals, glass, wood, paper or plastics, into appropriate containers for recycling.

  • Operate forklifts or other loaders.
  • Operate grinding equipment.
  • Operate recycling equipment.
  • Record operational or production data.