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About this Recycling Centre Operative role at Biffa Waste Services

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

HWRC Site Operative – Denby Dale Road

Salary: £24,640 per annum

Shift pattern: 4 on/4 off, averaging 33.53 hours per week

Monday – Saturday 07:30 – 17:30

Sunday 08:00 – 17:00

Summer Time Late Night Tue 07:30 – 20:00

The main purpose of the role is deliver a high level of customer service to site users as well as ensuring a high level of health and safety of compliance is maintained at all times.

Your key responsibilities:

• Providing excellent levels of customer service to members of the public, assisting and advising them on how to use the site effectively and safely

• Ensure segregation of different waste streams into appropriate containers to maximise the recovery of materials

• Ensure hazardous waste is separated and stored appropriately

• Ensure a high level of housekeeping is maintained and that the site is clean and tidy at all times

• Keep all equipment clean and maintained to ensure a safe working environment

• Control traffic flows are managed to ensure a safe operation

• Identify and report any defects on site following the defect reporting procedure

• Follow all risk assessments and safe operating procedure that are relevant to the post

• Report all non-compliance’s and breaches of site rules following reporting systems

• Ensures contract runs in compliance with internal and external safety / environmental / permit / planning processes and procedures, as well as any contract requirements.

• Must be willing to learn other skills and attend training courses to aid service continuity

Requirements

Essential criteria for this role:

• Good communication and listening skills

• Takes pride in providing high levels of customer service

• Demands high standards of themselves and others and is able to translate this into high quality, high pace output.

• Ability to build and maintain strong, cohesive relationships at all levels.

• Good understanding of health, safety and environmental compliance.

• Good organisation skills and the ability to forward plan making best use of time.

Benefits

What do we offer you?

• A competitive salary

• Enhanced employer contribution pension plan

• 23 days’ annual leave entitlement inclusive of statutory holidays (pro rata for part time)

• Numerous opportunities for career development, we have a history of promoting from within

• Access to our wellbeing and reward platform from Day 1

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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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