WT-Waste Treatment Cambs Facilities - Facilities Assistant

The Site Assistant plays a key role in maintaining the cleanliness, safety, and functionality of our site. This role involves supporting facilities with covering plant operations, repair and maintenance, general site upkeep, and ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations. The position requires working both indoors and outdoors, sometimes in challenging weather conditions, and operating plant, machinery, and hand/power tools.

• General site maintenance, including cleaning building facades, pathways, signage, parking areas, and roads.
• Assist in emergency situations, such as traffic control and site safety measures.
• Driving plant to support operations where required
• Support moving and handling furniture, equipment, and stock.
• Perform basic maintenance tasks and report any defects to the Facilities Team Leader.
• Conduct minor repairs as required.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety procedures, following safe working methods and using appropriate PPE.
  
  

Qualifications

• No formal facility qualifications required, but a willingness to undertake training.
• Basic Health & Safety awareness (desirable).
• NPORS (minimum) Loading shovel and/or dumper qualification required
  
  

Skills

• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to follow instructions and adhere to procedures.
• Basic understanding of maintenance and repair tasks.
• Comfortable using hand and power tools (training provided).
  
  

Experience

• Experience working in a facilities, maintenance, construction, or waste management environment (desirable but not essential).
• Comfortable working outdoors in all weather conditions.
  
  

Some exposure to mechanical, building construction, or repair work (desirable).

Our Business

At Thalia Waste Management, we are creating a future to be proud of. We think differently, questioning everything, enabling us to develop progressive waste into energy solutions and services. Being motivated, tackling problems together, inspiring others to take responsibility, making a difference, being ambitious and contributing value.

We operate the best technology available across our four strategic sites in North Yorkshire, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Wight. Our technology includes everything from mechanical and biological treatment, traditional mass-burn energy from waste and material recycling technologies to in-vessel composting, advanced thermal treatment, innovative small-scale energy from waste and anaerobic digestion. In a single year we process 300,000 tonnes of waste that is turned into energy. This generates the same amount of energy as approximately 600 million solar panels. Similarly we recycle circa 95,000 tonnes of waste.

Inclusion

At Thalia Waste Management, we work hard to make sure we are an inclusive and diverse place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV, we’re focused on who you are, your skills and passion that can be brought to Thalia Waste Management. We know and understand the everyone is different and has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working and any adjustments that could be needed! We’ll do all that we can to support everyone from their first contact with us. For any support or adjustments needed through our recruitment process, please speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. As a Disability Confident Employer, we will make sure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.