Receiving, Sorting

4 weeks ago

Portland, Oregon, United States Free Geek Full time

Title:
Receiving, Sorting & Recycling Associate

Department:
Receiving, Sorting, & Recycling

FLSA Status:
Non-Exempt

Reports To:
Manager of Receiving & Recycling

Class:
Union

Salary:
$18.50/hr

Who We Are:


At Free Geek we sustainably reuse technology, enable digital access and provide education to create a community that empowers people to realize their potential.

We're proud to be a leader in digital inclusion. None of this would be possible without hiring and developing the best employees.

Free Geek is a leading nonprofit technology refurbisher, founded in 2000, headquartered in Portland, Oregon with a national presence. Free Geek serves more than 35,000 Oregonians each year. To continue our growth, we are seeking a Receiving, Sorting & Recycling Associate to help us in continuing toward our goal of including everyone in our digital future

What Do We Need from This Position?


This position is responsible for efficiently and effectively carrying out the collection, sorting, recycling, and processing of incoming donations, including on-site and off-site collection of donations, in support of Free Geek's reuse activities by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties

1.) Assists with donation pick-ups and drop-offs, including receiving from the public, driving the Free Geek vehicles, tallying, loading, and unloading materials.

2.) Accurately sorts a wide variety of items into many different categories, including isolating data-bearing devices/components and performs secondary quality control checks.

3.) Manually disassembles computers and other electronics to recover components that are reusable, recyclable and/or data bearing.

4.) Trains, oversees, schedules, coordinates, and motivates volunteers.

Expected hours for this position will be 40/week. Please see the full job description for further responsibilities and requirements ). This position is eligible for benefits.

What Do You Get?


At Free Geek, we believe in curating a group of people passionate about creating options which provide the best benefit to our community.

As an organization under union, we fundamentally believe that happy people put in good work. Considering this, we provide an extensive benefits package.

Our benefits package includes Medical, Dental, a Retirement plan with employee matching, Life Insurance, and Short and Long Term Disability coverage.

We are also provided with kindly donated food and purchased snacks every week for staff to grab at their disposal.

How Do You Apply?


BIPOC, LGBTQI+, Disabled, and Femme Folks and folks who are navigating the intersectionality of those identities are all enthusiastically encouraged to apply We believe that if you're excited about this position you should apply - imposter syndrome is real and no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications.

This search is open to INTERNAL and EXTERNAL candidates. We will be accepting applications until the position is filled, but for best consideration, please complete this application by 5pm, May 10th, 2024, as that is when we will begin the review process ).

Any person needing reasonable accommodation in the application process should contact Human Resources at or x128.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT COVID-19:
At Free Geek we are working towards having as fully of a vaccinated workplace as possible.

We are offering paid sick leave (for even our newest of employees) for vaccination appointments and possible side effects from these vaccines.

We are also doing an incentive program for the disclosure of your vaccination status. Please be aware of this upon applying for this position.

Some of our positions require folks to be in close proximity to each other, and we are striving to keep our staff, and our greater communities, as safe as we can.

Thank you for applying

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