Full-time

Baler Operator

Posted by WM • Cambridge, ON, Canada

📍 Cambridge, ON 🕒 May 29, 2026

About the Role

This is a union position located at our Cambridge Material Recycling Facility.

Starting Wage: $30.68/hr.

Day Shift: 6:00 am - 2:30 pm

Afternoon Shift: 2:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Shift: Mondays – Fridays, overtime based on business needs

I. Job Summary

Responsible for monitoring material bunker levels and activating the conveyors and controls to bale sorted recyclable material.

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities

+ Performs daily inspection of equipment.
+ Monitors levels of material in bunkers.
+ Change baler settings for each commodity to be baled.
+ Operate conveyors to bring materials from bunkers to baler.
+ If facilities exist, perform QC on material as it is conveyed to the baler.
+ Places materials in compression chamber of baling machine.
+ Activate the controls of baler to compress and wire tie bales.
+ Threads tie bands around bale and twists or clamps ends of bands to tighten bands.

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