Don Seiburg gets up early on Wednesdays and Saturdays to help open the Andover Transfer Station and let residents through at 7 a.m. sharp.

As the town administrator, he likes to lead by example.

In the past few weeks alone, he’s crawled into a jammed trash compactor, shoveled sidewalks, snowblowed driveways and shepherded Andover through its annual Town Meeting.

If someone calls in sick, he’s ready to step …