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Baling Machine Operator
Architect of the Capitol · Posted 92 days ago
On-site Washington, DC $24.5 – $28.6/hr Apply by Jul 21, 2026 Miscellaneous Industrial Equipment Operation ISTP EngineeringTradesTransportation
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The Architect of the Capitol; Senate Office Buildings; Client Services Division; Labor and Custodial Branch. Seeking a reliable Baling Machine Operator to sort materials by recyclable grades and operates baling machines with capacities of one half to one ton bales and uses a forklift and/or crane to move completed bales from baling machines and places bales on flatbed trucks for transport.
What You'll Do
- →Tour of duty: 9:00 p.m. - 5:30 a.m.
- →(Monday-Saturday) Work schedule may require some occasionally mandatory overtime on holidays AND weekends.
- →Baling Machine Operator: Executes all aspects of standard baling equipment operation tasks that require numerous procedures and techniques.
- →Installs wrapping materials and bale banding wires into the pressure chamber.
- →Loads sorted materials into the feed hopper and into sealed compression chambers.
- →Activates the sensors and compresses materials and wraps and bands compressed materials together.
- →Works conveyor belt switches to start, stop, and speed conveyor belt with materials.
- →Bales compressed materials by recyclable grades to specified sizes and weights.
- →Separates materials as they move along the conveyor belt to the feed hopper, by removing bottles, cans, plastics, and other non-recyclable material by recyclable category grades to meet specifications.
- →Uses a forklift and/or crane to move completed bales from baling machines and places bales on flatbed trucks for transport.
- →Transports full recycling trucks weighing more than 80 pounds into cart dumper and operates lever that dumps recyclable materials into conveyor belt to the feed hopper.
- →Transports full recycling trucks weighing more than 80 pounds from buildings such as the Hart, Dirksen, Russell corridors/hallways to the Hart loading dock for sorting.
- →And Transports trash trucks weighing more than 80 pounds into trash cart dumper and operates lever that dumps trash into trash compactor.
- →Completes shipping documents indicating recyclable grades.
Requirements
- ✓No education is required.
- ✓You must be able to pass a drug test.
- ✓Your resume and question responses must demonstrate job-related elements.
Benefits
- ★A variety of health insurance plans; retirement system with investment options; paid holidays; paid sick and annual (vacation) leave; life insurance; incentive systems; subsidized transportation; training and development opportunities, etc.
- ★The Architect of the Capitol offers eligible employees opportunity to participate in the Student Loan Repayment Program.
- ★Selected applicant(s) may be eligible to earn a higher annual leave accrual rate credit towards annual leave accrual based on prior non-Federal or uniformed service work experience.
- ★The amount of service credit will be based on specialized experience or qualifying experience that is provided on the applicant profile submitted.
- ★As such, if you are a new employee to the Federal Government or a rehire, it is important that you provide a work history that lists all directly related positions held, and it must include the dates of employment (month/day/year).
Personality Fit
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