Solid Waste Analyst

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LOC
0455 Water Engineering Building (Marine Park) time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
26-0001##
** Salary Range
** 6,479.00 - 9,719.00##
** Job Summary
** With a fabulous waterfront, vibrant downtown, great parks, neighborhoods and public spaces, a commitment to smart growth, excellent service delivery and community engagement, Vancouver, Washington is all grown up, and we need excellent talent to keep us going (and growing) strong!
If who we are speaks to you, and if you’re the type of person who is interested in joining a team invested in ensuring community receive meaningful, excellent garbage, recycling, and composting services then the City of Vancouver may be for you.
We’re currently recruiting for a Solid Waste Analyst. The primary responsibilities for the job are to coordinate assigned programs and functions in support of the City’s efforts to deliver high quality and economical solid waste and recycling services to residents and businesses in Vancouver. Areas of assigned responsibility include neighborhood programs (coordinating cleanup and chipper days, spring and fall coupons), technical assistance to commercial, multi-family and mixed-use customers, review and assist with triaging code compliance concerns stemming from garbage disposal code (VMC 6.12) and provide data analysis and support for planning and contract management efforts.

Coordination with the Public Works information/communications team, regional and private partners, and the contracted hauler or internal partners (Code Compliance, Special Events) to assure that solid waste and recycling programs and city-specific or regional solid waste messages, outreach, education/promotional strategies are effective and clearly communicate program information to the public. The Analyst provides customer services on a range of program related topics and plans and manages special projects as needed and support programs or assignments as directed by supervisor, led by other program staff or partners.
This is a full-time, regular, exempt position. The schedule for this position is M-F, 8am to 5pm.
Open until filled. First review - January 22, 2026.##
** Job Details
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* Essential Functions:

*** Neighborhood Programs - Maintain a schedule of cleanup and chipper days by keeping a calendar, confirming schedules with the contracted hauler and city operations crews, and following up with the requestor.  Monitor neighborhood newsletters to be sure published dates and event hours match the request. Review, track and monitor billings. Assist neighborhood volunteers with questions about policies and procedures. Manage onsite resources during the day of cleanup event.  

Drive a city vehicle in a safe and appropriate manner in order to travel efficiently between worksites.
* Outreach – Manage solid waste outreach and education information, serve as a point of contact for Public Works Communications and City Comms teams and other frontline staff about solid waste programs to be incorporated in news releases, social media posts and website information. Responsible for developing or delegating outreach and education tasks to staff including resource documents and informational flyers or campaigns specific to Solid Waste programs.

Oversee and approve work with contracted hauler to develop and deliver information about the residential organics collection program. Update and maintain the regional online reminder and material reference tool. Coordinate and collaborate with solid waste regional partners on efforts to reduce contamination in the recycling stream with special emphasis on multifamily customers.
* Seasonal - Administer the annual spring and fall coupon programs including liaising with participating contracted sites or vendors, distributing coupons, reviewing and approving invoices. Coordinate with City Operations to provide leaf boxes and work with the Public Works divisions and teams to cross promote programs. Additionally, work with City Construction services and PW Comms to ensure waste collection and road work projects are coordinated with collector…