Pest Control Specialist

For more than 90 years, Terminix has built a reputation as one of the nation’s leading providers of termite and pest control services, safeguarding over 3 million homes and businesses against all types of pests in 47 states and 14 countries.

Position Overview**

Works under immediate supervision to gain experience and become proficient in aspects of pest control. Learns how to apply company pesticide products to structures according to schedule, safety procedures and label instructions as needed based on service requests, call customers to confirm scheduled services, complete required production forms, and assist in sales to current customers.

Job Responsibilities**

• Learns how to properly apply company products to structures according to schedule, safety procedures, and label instructions
• Drives company vehicle to customers’ houses or places of business.
• Calls customers to confirm scheduled services.
• Responds on a timely basis to customers’ requests for telephone and in-person service calls.
• Assists with completion of required production forms at end of daily route.
• Maintains vehicle and equipment in clean and proper operating condition.
• Assists in sales to current customers through contact on route.

Job Requirements**

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos
• Ability to write simple correspondence
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
• Maintains licenses/certificates as required by federal, state, or local regulations
• Maintains valid driver’s license

Physical Demands and Working Conditions**

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential function to this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Incumbent must be prepared to:

• Move up to 10 pounds regularly, and 11-20 lbs frequently, by lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or otherwise repositioning objects. Exerting up to 50 lbs of force to move objects is required occasionally.
• Use legs and/or hands and arms to ascend or descend ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, etc., in a manner that exceeds what is required for ordinary locomotion.
• Maintain his/her balance when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces; balance exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion.
• Bend legs and spine downward and forward to crouch or squat, and bend legs at the knee to come to rest on a surface with one or both knees, including crawling on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Push objects forward, downward, or outward with sustained force using the upper extremities to press with steady force, and drag, draw, haul, or tug objects with sustained motion using the upper extremities to exert force.
• Extend his/her hands and arms in any direction to reach objects, and move objects from a lower to a higher position, or move objects horizontally from one position to another, by lifting or carrying objects either in his/her hands or arms or by strapping equipment to the body; requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Use touch of skin to perceive attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture; particularly fingertips.
• Express or exchange ideas with others through the use of spoken word, quickly, accurately, and at an easily audible volume, and receive detailed information through oral communication at usual speaking levels without correction, and/or make fine discriminations in the nature of sounds in the environment.
• Operate a motor vehicle and use electrically and manually powered hand tools for securing objects to surfaces.

Employee is required to have:

• Close visual acuity to perform detail oriented activities at distances close to the eyes, as well as visual acuity to perform activities at or within arm’s reach with skill, control, and accuracy, and to determine the accuracy, neatness, and/or thoroughness of work assigned, or make general observations of facilities or structures (i.e., inspection).
• Visual acuity to operate motor vehicles or equipment.

Employee will be subject to:

• Both inside (not necessarily temperature controlled) and outside (without protection from weather; extreme heat-above 100 and/or cold-below 32 for more than one hour) environmental conditions.
• Hazardous physical conditions, such as mechanical parts, vehicles, electrical current, heights and scaffolding, chemical exposure, and/or high heat.
• Atmospheric conditions affecting the respiratory system of the skin, such as fumes, odors, dust, mold, mist, gas, poor ventilation.
• Exposure to animals and insects.
• Meet physical requirements and/or pass medical certification in compliance with state and/or federal regulatory requirements and company safety policies relating to carrying and wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), including, but not limited to an OSHA compliant respirator.
• Working in tight, confined spaces, narrow aisles, or passageways including but not limited to crawl spaces.

Terminix companies are proud to be EOE.**

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $35,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Multiple Locations