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About this Baler Operative role at Biffa Waste Services

Biffa Waste Services · Onsite · Wakefield, England, United Kingdom

Baler Operator - South Kirkby, Wakefield

Salary: £32,877 per annum

Working Pattern: 45 hours per week, exclusive of lunch breaks, usually worked any 5 days from 7 between the hours of 06:00 and 22:00

 

Key Purposes of the Role

To achieve making material bales that meet with off-taker specs from the MRF. To control operations with the MDR MRF Baler Hall, working close with the MRF Team Leader to ensure all aspects of Facility’s SHEQ are met. To promote good housekeeping and making sure daily inspections are completed and any defects found are raised promptly. Making sure stock levels are controlled through collections as to not over-fill the facility. To efficiently run the equipment as to not stop production from the main plant.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure daily checks are done on machinery and mobile plant
• Responsible for the day to day operations within the MDR MRF facility baler hall.
• Ensuring that all bales made are of suitable quality and bale length.
• Manage the reporting of all safety or environmental issues to the Site Management team.
• To conduct regular checks on all MRF machinery and equipment, filling out any associated paperwork timely and accurately.
• To report any plant breakdown maintenance issues to maintenance team timely and liaise with maintenance team until plant is operational again.
• To ensure plant is running at optimum to achieve balance between material quality targets, rejection rate targets.

Essential Experience

• English literacy level 1 or equivalent
• Must be able to Work at Height.
• Mobile Plant licence (Fork Truck, Tele-Handler, Loading Shovel)
• Willingness to learn new skills
• Good understanding of Health, Safety and Environmental compliance.
• Good people and communication skills.

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About Biffa Waste Services

Biffa have been servicing the waste management needs of the UK since 1912 and we’re now a UK leading integrated waste management company.

We are proud to lead the waste and recycling industry. With operations at over 195 sites spanning the length and breadth of the country, we service over 2.3 million households and collect 4.3 million bins per week just within our municipal division. From our conception in 1912, our business has developed far beyond waste collection and into recycling, treatment and energy generation services

Our Vision

To be the leader in UK sustainable waste management.

Our Purpose

We're here to change the way people think about waste.

Our values truly reinforce what we are all about:

We act as a team

- We are working towards a common goal

- We look out for each other

- We all have an equal voice and respect each other

We make things happen

- We are hands on and get stuck in

- We find a way

- We go the extra mile and always deliver

We do the right thing

- We are honest, transparent and responsible for our actions

- We keep our promises

- We build trust by being consistent and fair

We take pride in what we do

- We continually develop our knowledge and expertise

- We know our work matters

- We take price in a job well done


We are a progressive business and innovation is core to our strategy. This means continually developing and improving our extensive UK-wide infrastructure to provide greater flexibility, an innovative and broad range of services and the utilisation of technology to ensure we are easy to do business with.

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