Green Box is an organics collection and composting company, headquartered in Madison, WI with a presence throughout southeastern Wisconsin. Our mission is to divert organics, primarily food scraps, from the landfill, and to create high quality compost. Our vision is to create sustainable jobs that both fulfill our employee's needs, and help our community transition to a more just and circular economy. We do that by providing excellent landfill diversion services, customers support, and a stable, efficient work environment.

Collections Team Member - Milwaukee, FT

Mission

Compost Crusader, a Milwaukee based compost company, has been newly acquired by Green Box Compost, a Madison WI based organization dedicated to food scraps collection and recycling. Our goal is to continue Compost Crusader's role in Milwaukee, and increase the positive impact it has on their community.

At Compost Crusader we create a culture around sustainability that empowers individuals and organizations to divert organic material from the landfill in an economically and environmentally sustainable way.

Who Are We?

Milwaukee’s landfill is nearing capacity and 30% of what goes to our landfill is food scraps. There is a growing number of establishments like restaurants, hotels, sporting arenas, grocers, and many more including Milwaukee residents that would like to divert food scraps and other food soiled compostable products from the landfill. 

Compost Crusader is a dynamic company that serves our customers in the greater Milwaukee area by hauling compostable material to certified DNR compost sites to be processed and recycled into finished compost. This process and these relationships serve to heal the soils in our communities and actively work to address and reduce the build-up of methane gas when food scraps are entombed in our landfills. Compost Crusader also serves as a point of reference in organizing and educating organizations and communities in the realization and attainment of their sustainability and diversion goals.

Position Description

As a non-CDL driver, you will drive routes collecting compostable organic material and deliver to a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources certified compost site. This work is an important part of our mission to increase the environmental sustainability of our community by reducing the amount of material entering our landfills.

After a 1-week training period, drivers will operate a small truck, driving residential routes, moving carts and dumpsters to the compost truck, emptying them using hydraulic winches and lifts, and returning the receptacle to the customer’s set out area. This position involves working around food waste and decomposing material, applicants should expect to get dirty!

Additionally, there will be work in the warehouse such as general cleaning and maintenance of vehicles, warehouse, inventory, and supplies. Other projects may be assigned on an as-needed basis. The expectation is 40 hours of work, 60-90% of which will be in the vehicle.

Duties and responsibilities

• Work Safely - must follow all safety guidelines.
• Drive routes of 5-8 hours 4-5 days a week
• Additional warehouse duties like cleaning, maintaining equipment, and stocking orders.
• Collect organics like food scraps and food soiled paper products from 
• Document and reduce any contamination of organics feedstock, complete pre and post trip inspections
• General warehouse labor to round out hours and maintain equipment, supplies, inventory, and space

Requirements

• Valid Wisconsin driver’s license and clean driving history of 3 years
• High school diploma, GED or HSED
• Ability to work outdoors in adverse weather conditions around compostable material
• Ability to comply with a drug & alcohol free workplace policy and participate in random testing

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Truck operation and maintenance; ability to operate vehicles efficiently and safely
• Ability to lift up to 40 pounds on a repetitive basis, roll 100+ pounds occasionally, and lift 100+ pounds on rare occasions, in all weather conditions.
• Read maps and follow written and verbal directions
• Keep records and follow reports
• Basic understanding and interest in composting as a sustainable practice is a plus!

Compensation

• 3 month training period, 20-40 hours per week, at $20-$24 per hour
• Transition to Full Time Salaried, after training, at $45,000-$50,000 per year depending on experience and performance during training period
• 10 days of paid time off with salaried position
• Health, vision, dental, 401k+match with salaried position