Baling Machine Operator
About the company
The Architect of the Capitol; Senate Office Buildings; Client Services Division; Labor and Custodial Branch. Seeking a reliable Baling Machine Operator to sort materials by recyclable grades and operates baling machines with capacities of one half to one ton bales and uses a forklift and/or crane to move completed bales from baling machines and places bales on flatbed trucks for transport.
Your tasks
Tour of duty: 9:00 p.m. - 5:30 a.m. (Monday-Saturday) Work schedule may require some occasionally mandatory overtime on holidays AND weekends. Baling Machine Operator:
- Executes all aspects of standard baling equipment operation tasks that require numerous procedures and techniques.
- Installs wrapping materials and bale banding wires into the pressure chamber.
- Loads sorted materials into the feed hopper and into sealed compression chambers.
- Activates the sensors and compresses materials and wraps and bands compressed materials together.
- Works conveyor belt switches to start, stop, and speed conveyor belt with materials.
- Bales compressed materials by recyclable grades to specified sizes and weights.
- Separates materials as they move along the conveyor belt to the feed hopper, by removing bottles, cans, plastics, and other non-recyclable material by recyclable category grades to meet specifications.
- Uses a forklift and/or crane to move completed bales from baling machines and places bales on flatbed trucks for transport.
- Transports full recycling trucks weighing more than 80 pounds into cart dumper and operates lever that dumps recyclable materials into conveyor belt to the feed hopper.
- Transports full recycling trucks weighing more than 80 pounds from buildings such as the Hart, Dirksen, Russell corridors/hallways to the Hart loading dock for sorting.
- Transports trash trucks weighing more than 80 pounds into trash cart dumper and operates lever that dumps trash into trash compactor.
- Completes shipping documents indicating recyclable grades.
- Coordinates with contractors for disposition of materials at specified levels.
- Assists contractors with loading and disposition of bales of materials.
- performs other duties as assigned
Physical Conditions:
- This position requires heavy physical effort, bending, stooping, working in uncomfortable positions.
- lifting and carrying items weighing up to 80 pounds and lifting and emptying trash trucks weighting more than 80 pounds.
Working Conditions:
- The work is performed inside or outside in areas that may be hot, damp, cold, dusty, dirty, and drafty.
- There is constant exposure to dust, trash, and debris when loading and sorting materials requiring the use of a dust mask.
Requirements
You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. Screen out:
- Ability to do the work of a Baling Machine Operator without more than normal supervision.
- Experience in sorting materials by recyclable grades
- Operating baling machines with capacities of one half to one-ton bales
- Using a forklift and/or crane to move completed bales from baling machines and places bales on flatbed trucks for transport.
- Must lift be able to lift 80 pounds or more.
No education is required.
Please be advised that federal retired annuitant candidates may only be considered as a temporary employee if the role can be filled in that capacity. And: To be employed by the Architect of the Capitol in a paid position, an individual must meet one of the categories below:
- A citizen of the United States;
- A person who is lawfully admitted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B);
- A person who is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and has filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and then a citizen when eligible;
- A person who owes allegiance to the United States (nationals of American Samoa, Swains Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and nationals who meet other requirements described in 8 U.S.C. 1408); or
- A person who is currently an officer or employee of the Government of the United States.