Household Reuse and Recycling Centre (HRRC) Operative - Avonmouth

CompanyBristol Waste Company

LocationBristol, England, United Kingdom

Posted At1/22/2026

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Refuse and salvage occupations

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Description

SALARY: £28,033.61 per annum

HOURS: 40 per week - Full time: 40 hours per week. Working pattern: Monday, Tuesday, Friday 08:45am – 17:15pm, Saturday, Sunday 07:45 – 16:15 (Wednesday, Thursday days off)

LOCATION: Avonmouth, Bristol

Household Reuse and Recycling Centre (HRRC) Operative

About Bristol Waste Company

What we do is important – we’re here to keep Bristol, and beyond, clean, and safe.

We do this for our city’s residents, workers, visitors, and businesses. Our work helps deliver Bristol’s sustainability targets in partnership with the council.

Bristol Waste’s commercial operation, where we serve businesses and organisations across the region, is also growing.

Our ambition is to provide good quality, value for money services, and we continue to deliver a social value impact worth more than £30 million every year.

We want people who share our values and want to work with us to drive our business forward.

Purpose Of The Role

We have an exciting opportunity HRRC Operatives with a strong customer service background that share our ambitious vision and values to make Bristol a cleaner and greener place to live and work.

You will act as the first point of contact to the public, providing a professional service by giving advice, direction, and assistance, ensuring that waste is received and deposited correctly.

Key Responsibilities

Control the receipt and segregation for recycling of waste received, engaging with commercial customers as well as members of the public.
Direct and control the loading and transfer of waste, recyclable and reusable materials to final disposal points.
Carry out general site duties including housekeeping of site grounds, buildings and staff facilities.
If trained to drive a 360 grab and other mobile plant, carry out inspections and report defects of mobile plant, vehicles and other equipment.
Operate weighbridge when required
Actively participate in full range of recycling and reuse activities/initiatives

Essential Requirements For The Role

Experience of dealing with a wide range of colleagues and customers and use of appropriate communication skills in responding to operational issues
Proven experience of effective contribution to team working
Ability to operate computerised weighbridge (training will be provided)
Demonstrable experience of ability to work effectively without direct supervision
Demonstrable understanding of health and safety and other associated relevant legislation

Experience or ability to demonstrate suitability for physical work involving the lifting of weights up to 25 kg and manual handling to include pushing/pulling waste bins

Our Benefits

Annual leave package of 25 days plus 8 bank holidays.
Employer contribution of 5% into the company pension scheme.
Support for Mental Health, including a BUPA Employee Assistance Programme that provides support covering Mental Health, Financial and Family related topics. We also have Mental Health First Aiders across the business.
Support for your Physical Health with our BUPA Health Cash Plan (we cover the cost of coverage for you), Cycle to Work scheme and an onsite Physiotherapist. All are free for our colleagues.
Because we value our colleagues, we want to recruit more employees just like them, which is why we have our employee referral scheme.
Dedicated learning and development team. We take pride in developing our colleagues and some examples of this include our In-House Driver Development Programme and internal promotions. Many of our Senior Leadership Team have developed from Operational roles, such as one of our Contract Managers who started as a Street Cleanser.

Employee recognition ‘Stand Out Award’ and long service awards. To celebrate our colleagues wherever they are on their journey with us, we recognise and celebrate talent.

We recognise that everyone is different and strive to create an environment that supports all colleagues through flexible working. We have introduced a hybrid working model where possible and actively encourage part-time working, job sharing and flexibility on hours. If this interests, you please do get in touch, and we can start a conversation.

Everyone Belongs

At Bristol Waste everyone belongs – we are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation.

We give fair and equal consideration to all applications.

We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence.

Important Note On Applying

Please apply as soon as possible and before 23:59 on the closing date. Sometimes we close vacancies early if we receive a high number of quality applications.
Due to the high volume of interest, we won’t be able to receive late applications and we are currently unable to respond to all who apply.

If you haven’t heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, it unfortunately means you won’t be invited to interview on this occasion.

Contact Us

Please contact our People Services team to discuss this role, your application, or any reasonable adjustments and support in applying for this position:

recruitment@bristolwastecompany.co.uk
0117 440 6676

Thank you for your interest in joining Bristol Waste Company.