solid waste operator
ISCO: 3132. Skills: 30. Essential: 14.
Essential skills
- assess waste type
- communicate with waste collectors
- control delivered waste
- dispose of non-hazardous waste
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation
- ensure compliance with waste legislative regulations
- ensure equipment availability
- maintain recycling records
- monitor waste treatment equipment
- operate recycling processing equipment
- test samples for pollutants
- troubleshoot
- waste and scrap products
- waste management
Supporting skills
- advise on waste management procedures
- collect domestic waste
- collect industrial waste
- dispose of hazardous waste
- empty community waste collection bins
- establish waste collection routes
- hazardous waste types
- inspect recycling procedures
- install recycling containers
- maintain waste collection records
- monitor civic recycling sites
- pollution prevention
- remove debris
- sort waste
- store sorted waste
- waste transport legislation