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.

Fleet Manager - 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

Compost Crusader seeks a full-time Fleet Manager who will be responsible for managing mechanics, dispatch and truck maintenance. Being able to perform pre-trip inspections, fluids checks and other light mechanical assessments is a must. It also includes driving, creating, and maintaining routes when necessary.

A Fleet Manager performs many organizational and management tasks to monitor, maintain and improve a company’s transportation processes.

Duties and responsibilities

• Scheduling regular maintenance on all vehicles
• Ordering urgent or emergency repairs as needed
• Performing weekly vehicle inspections and topping off fluids
• Changing easy to reach parts and checking fluids
• Establishing efficient routes and transportation schedules
• Coordinating Drivers and on-staff maintenance professionals when setting employee schedules
• Managing vehicle licensure and registration
• Ensuring all fleet members have proper licensure and up-to-date training
• Monitoring Drivers to ensure adherence to schedules and proper driving practices
• Searching for, hiring and training new Drivers
• Filling in for other roles (driver, laborer, etc) during employee absences.
• Route Supervisor (making changes to routes, going with drivers on route to ensure efficiency etc)

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
• Mechanical aptitude & willingness to handle unusual circumstances.
• One (1) year experience working in an logistics environment including experience with supervision and responsibility for employee management and training.

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

• Full Time Salaried, after training, at $50,000-$60,000 per year depending on experience
• 10 days of paid time off with salaried position
• Health, vision, dental, 401k+match