Senior Crew Leader for the Landfill

City of Grand Prairie, TX
Grand Prairie, Texas United States  View Map
Posted: May 09, 2025
  • Salary: $51,398.88 - $80,840.86 Annually USD
  • Full Time
  • Administration and Management
  • Sanitation and Solid Waste
  • Job Description

    Job Summary

    Join Our Team as a Senior Crew Leader at the Landfill!

    Are you ready to take charge and lead a dynamic team towards environmental excellence? We're on the lookout for a Senior Crew Leader to make a lasting impact at our landfill site!

    We offer competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career growth and development. Our team is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace culture, where all employees feel valued and respected.

    Under limited direction, the purpose of this position is to lead and regularly supervise the work of crews that are engaged in solid waste and act in the capacity of the Operations Supervisors when they are off duty. The Senior Crew Leader coordinates the delivery of essential supervisory duties for the working force and for the scale house/convenience area in tandem with the Landfill Operations Supervisor.

    Essential Job Functions

    • Supervises staff and work crews by assigning work duties; prioritizing work activities; observing and monitoring work tasks; evaluating work performance, approving leave requests; providing training as needed; conducting meetings; and providing advice or assistance as needed.
    • Ensures operations and project work are completed by coordinating and scheduling contractors/activities; monitoring field operations; inspecting work completed; ensuring equipment is inspected and maintained, meeting all safety and environmental requirements; ensuring equipment and adequate materials are supplied to crews; ensuring the safety of employees through appropriate operating procedures; investigating complaints from customers; and providing assistance on and resolution of work problems.
    • Coordinates with the Operations Supervisor for budgetary needs, requisitioning materials and providing specifications for needed equipment. Records and completes service requests, work activities orders; prepares damage/loss reports and injury reports, and compiles various reports for management as well as various federal and state regulating entities; responds to emails; returns phone calls, attends meetings; and responds to onsite emergencies.
    • Completes departmentally specific functions by setting up and organizing, and lecturing at special events such as CREW Camp; monitors infrastructure projects; maintains specific operations such as landfill and other facilities.
    • Assesses physical risks associated with the workplace daily and mitigates risk. Provides fire-fighting leadership, training and risk minimization. Provides leadership regarding first aid for customers and employees.
    • All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.


    Minimum Qualifications

    • Education: Work requires knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative, or technical nature that may obtained with six months/one year of advanced study or training past the high school equivalency. Junior college, vocational, business, technical or correspondence schools are likely sources. Appropriate certification may be awarded upon satisfactory completion of advanced study or training.
    • Experience: Over two years experience
    • Licenses: Valid Driver's License required
    • Certifications Required: N




    Closing Date/Time: 5/23/2025 5:00 PM Central
  • Special Instructions

    5/23/2025 5:00 PM Central
  • ABOUT THE COMPANY

    • City of Grand Prairie
    • City of Grand Prairie

     

    Welcome to the City of Grand Prairie!  We Live Life Grand here – about 200,640 residents call Grand Prairie home, and we’re still growing.  Grand Prairie is the 16th largest city in Texas and the 125th largest city in the United States, but we still have small town values.  We are rated the #1 Best Place to Retire in the U.S., 2nd Happiest City in Texas, 5th Best City for First-Time Home Buyers in Texas, 7th Safest Large City in Texas, and in the Top 50 U.S. Best Place to
    Raise a Family!

    We have attractions that draw almost 10 million visitors a year to: 

    • Epic Waters Indoor Water Park showcasing 80,000 square feet of year-round water fun referred to as a “cruise ship on land”
    • The Summit Active Adult Center with state-of-the-art fitness training, indoor infinity edge pool with lap lanes and exercise vortex, theater, game room, sauna
    • PlayGrand Adventures (10-acre, all-accessible playground) is an exciting opportunity to provide a safe and fun playground experience for all ages and abilities (open late 2019)
    • Firehouse Gastro Park restaurant downtown (conversion of historic Firehouse #1)
    • Lone Star Park Thoroughbred Horse Race Track
    • The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue
    • Historic Uptown Theater in downtown
    • IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall
    • Traders Village
    • Lake Joe Pool
    • Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! And Palace of Wax
    • Epic Central Park, a 172-acre park with five lakes, a Grand Lawn amphitheater, trails and a water and light show
    • Chicken N’ Pickle
    • Bolder Adventure Park
    • The Epic Arts, Fitness and Entertainment Center with $1 million in cardio and strength training equipment, indoor walking/jogging track, group fitness and more

    Grand Prairie recently welcomed more than 50 new restaurants and retail stores along SH 161, and development continues at a brisk pace. The city offers a vibrant lifestyle, with the best parks in the nation, more amenities than most, affordable to affluent housing and friendly neighbors.

    City employees work hard to ensure Grand Prairie is known as an organization that creates Raving Fans by delivering world-class service.  Our employee family and elected officials constantly live our values, aggressively move toward our vision and are always looking for ways to make the business of running a city even better.The hard work, positive input and optimism of all our city employees all play a key role in our success.  We look forward to you joining our
    team!

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