Overview & Salary

Overview

Supervise curbside and drop-off recycling programs for municipal governments or private firms.

On the job, you would:

  • Oversee recycling pick-up or drop-off programs to ensure compliance with community ordinances.
  • Maintain logs of recycling materials received or shipped to processing companies.
  • Supervise recycling technicians, community service workers, or other recycling operations employees or volunteers.

Education

  • high school diploma/GED
  • bachelor's degree

Salary

Annual 10th percentile $39,440
Annual median $60,510
Annual 90th percentile $92,140

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge

Business

  • customer service
  • management

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Manufactured or Agricultural Goods

  • manufacture and distribution of products

Math and Science

  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Skills

Basic Skills

  • talking to others
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

Social

  • changing what is done based on other people's actions
  • understanding people's reactions

People and Technology Systems

  • thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one

Personality & Abilities

Personality

Enterprising

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

  • Cooperation
  • Dependability
  • Leadership
  • Attention to Detail
  • Adaptability/Flexibility
  • Independence

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • use rules to solve problems
  • order or arrange things
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