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About this Team Leader role at Biffa Waste Services

Biffa Waste Services · Onsite · Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

An opportunity has arisen for a Team Leader based at Magna Park, Milton Keynes.

37.5 hours per week (over 7 days on a rota basis) 

PM shift – 2pm – 10pm 

£15.59ph 

A quick look at the role

Leading the waste operative team to ensure H&S compliance, team productivity optimisation and performance, and shift reporting. Supporting the Supervisor in staff and task allocation and appropriate shift cover. In addition to leading the team you will be operating machinery which include Forklift, LLOP, Counterbalances, Compactor and Balers. The Team Leader will effectively and efficiently process waste whilst ensuring all health and safety procedures are adhered to. Each material is to be processed as per the guidelines and all data to be captured and recorded accurately.

Your core responsibilities

  • Take responsibility to ensure all H&S issues are reported and received from waste operatives.
  • Complete visual inspections and machine check sheets before use.
  • Liaise with JLP Maintenance to report any machinery issues.
  • Ensure waste areas are always kept clean and tidy.
  • Processing and sorting of various waste materials into appropriate streams, which are presented at each campus.
  • Capturing and recording all data accurately as required.
  • Operating of machinery which include Forklift, LLOP, Counterbalances, Compactors and Balers.
  • Upholding all Health and Safety and company procedures.
  • Reporting Accidents, near miss and incidents in a timely manner.
  • Ensure correct PPE is always worn whilst on site by all team members.
  • Customers site policy and procedures are always adhered to.
  • Promoting a positive safety, health and wellbeing culture at site.
  • Ensuring a good customer care and positive interactions with customers, drivers and other stake holders.

Requirements

Our essential requirements.

  • Ability to lead an operational team
  • High priority and focus on leading Health & Safety within the team
  • Must be punctual and will be expected to start their shift on time
  • Good communication skills both written and verbal
  • Excellent Teamwork skills
  • Flexibility will be required to ensure workload is completed

Benefits

And here's why you'll love it at Biffa.

  • Competitive salary
  • Ongoing career development, training and coaching – because if you don’t grow, we don’t grow.
  • Generous pension scheme.
  • Retail and leisure discounts.
  • Holiday and travel discounts.
  • Bike to work scheme

Changing the way people think about waste.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,000+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull. And it’s why we’re the UK’s No. 1 choice for business waste management.

Dedicated to diversity.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.

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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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