Household Reuse and Recycling Centre (HRRC) Operative - Black Bins Avonmouth
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Occupation Type
Refuse and salvage occupations
Occupation Code Skill LevelIneligible
Sponsorship EligibilityIneligible for Sponsorship
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Description
SALARY: £28,033.61 per annum
HOURS: 40 per week - Working pattern: Friday - Tuesday, 08:45 - 17:15 & 07:45 - 16:15
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 £20 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
HOURS: 40 per week - Working pattern: Friday - Tuesday, 08:45 - 17:15 & 07:45 - 16:15
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 £20 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 Blag Bag 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 or Telehandler 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
Our Benefits
- Annual leave package of 25 days plus 8 bank holidays – Depending on hours/contract.
- 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.
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 Recruitment 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.
recruitment@bristolwastecompany.co.uk
0117 440 6676
Thank you for your interest in joining Bristol Waste Company.