Solid Waste Route Foreman - Promotional Only

Description

Salary: $52,286 - $78,416

Position Grade: 208G

Department: Refuse Division

Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1682

Location: St. Louis, MO

Promotional - Open to Permanent City Employees Only.

This is supervisory and administrative work coordinating subordinates in a variety of daily route activities for solid waste collection. Examples of duties include: supervising and planning work for crews that repair refuse containers and roll-out carts, collecting refuse and bulk items, performing other maintenance work, and responding to citizens’ requests and complaints.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates initiative by identifying operational needs, addressing routine problems, and taking appropriate action within established authority without requiring repeated direction.
• Coordinates with Labor Supervisors, other Foremen, and field personnel to ensure timely completion of assigned work, address service interruptions, and communicate operational concerns.
• Maintains effective communication with assigned employees, including Heavy Equipment Operators, regarding work assignments, equipment deficiencies, service concerns, safety issues, and operational needs.
• Responds to field requests for assistance involving equipment breakdowns, collection obstructions, safety concerns, and other issues affecting daily operations.
• Conducts field inspections to evaluate refuse collection activities, dumpster conditions, equipment performance, work completion, and compliance with established operating procedures.
• Assists with the placement, relocation, and replacement of dumpsters and other refuse containers as necessary, using appropriate equipment and established safety procedures.
• Performs or assists with physical fieldwork when necessary, including shoveling, removing loose refuse, and cleaning areas surrounding dumpsters and assigned collection locations.
• Develops and maintains working knowledge of applicable City ordinances, regulations, departmental policies, and operating procedures necessary to carry out assigned responsibilities. obstructions, and operational matters. Ensure unresolved concerns are documented and forwarded through appropriate channels.
• Communicates professionally with residents, city officials, and other departments regarding service requests and collection concerns.
• Completes and maintains accurate operational paperwork, including employee time records, work reports, service requests, equipment documentation, field inspections, and other assigned records.
• Performs data entry and maintain accurate electronic records using computerized work management systems, reporting platforms, and other departmental applications.
• Maintains proficiency with departmental vehicles, trucks, equipment, and machinery, including the ability to recognize operational deficiencies, assess equipment problems, and assist field personnel in resolving equipment-related issues within established authority.
• Maintains a minimum of six (6) hours of documented equipment proficiency, familiarization, or operational assessment activities per month, consistent with assigned responsibilities and applicable safety requirements.
• Coordinates with the Safety Coordinator and appropriate supervisory personnel regarding workplace hazards, equipment safety, accident reporting, and corrective safety measures.
• Assists other crews, operational units, and work locations as directed or when operational needs require.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Requires the ability to operate a variety of office equipment, including but not limited to a computer, fax machine, photocopier, scanner, printer. Requires the ability to work with multiple computer programs including but not limited to CityWorks, Gmail, and Microsoft Office Suite, candidate must be proficient in Word, Excel, and Google Workplace.

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.

• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to manage and direct a large group of employees, which may include firstline supervisors. Oversees and controls employee discipline, selection and allocation, and planning of human resources.

• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as calculator, two-way radio, motor vehicle, telephone, photocopier and/or materials used in performing essential functions.

• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as work orders, blueprints, diagrams, accident reports, attendance records, personnel policies, technical operating manuals, safety regulations, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.

• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentage and decimals; may require the ability to perform mathematical operations involving basic algebra and geometry.

• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, managing, planning, coordinating and controlling. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.

• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.

• Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, temperature and noise extremes, machinery and traffic hazards. Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to lift office objects, drawings/blueprints weighing up to ten (10) pounds. Requires the ability to stoop, bend and twist to inspect job sites.

• Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of shapes and sounds to clearly distinguish objects and conduct worksite inspections.

Qualifications

Five years of recent full-time paid experience in refuse work with the City of St. Louis that must include some driving.

License: Possession of a current valid Commercial Driver’s License (Class A or B) at the time of application and be able to present it upon request. Please note type of license, number, class and expiration date on the Employment Application. Only qualified applicants who provide proof of a valid driver’s license will be considered for this position.

Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail

Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request

When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Veterans Preference Points

To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.

City Residence Preference Points

City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.

Accommodations

If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.

Job Posting

: Nov 9, 2026, 4:29:47 PM