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Job Title: Waste Sortation Operative
Hourly Rate of Pay: £16.28
Contract Type: Permanent
Type of Employment: Full Time
Total Weekly Contractual Hours: 42.5
Shift Description: Monday to Friday at 07:00 - 15:30. Working hours subject to change due to seasonality of site.
Location: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, Richmond, Greater London, England TW9 3AE
The role will be responsible for working with the Strategic Sustainability Manager in developing a sustainability strategy, which will incorporate key recycling solutions across the site, creating and driving a culture of improvement and innovation in all aspects of waste management activity. Engaging with and working collaboratively with colleagues from across various Kew Gardens departments and delivering on Kew Gardens environmental objectives whilst proactively managing all waste activities on site.
Main Duties
1. Working in partnership with Kew Gardens and Mitie's Strategic Sustainability Manager to deliver against the key objectives for the contract
2. To proactively engage, communicate, and collaborate with key Kew Gardens stakeholders in improving waste and recycling performance on the contract
3. To proactively engage, communicate, and collaborate with a range of Kew stakeholders and departments
4. Working with Kew Gardens and Strategic Sustainability Manager to introduce innovation and waste technology across the current waste service to improve the overall environmental performance and reduce disposal costs
5. To work with Mitie's Strategic Sustainability Manager to provide waste data analysis, identifying key trends and providing detailed feedback to Kew Gardens
Operational Duties
6. To manage waste and recycling sub-contractors, including health and safety, compliance and site security requirements
7. To supervise the on site operational team, ensuring that appropriate waste and recycling procedures are adhered to
8. To supervise the waste movements in and around the current waste service area, including weekly area inspections and reporting of any QSHE issues accordingly whilst proactively improving the yard area for all parties
9. To provide training and education for all personnel involved in the handling and disposal of waste and recycling across the site, including cleaning teams, retail teams and other stakeholders as required
10. Monthly reporting to key stakeholders
11. Maintain and continually review all processes and systems currently in place and to assist with any proposals for improvements required
12. To remove waste materials from holding bins and sort into streams within the MRF prior to transfer into the appropriate segregated containers
13. To organise and undertake service routes around Kew Gardens to empty visitor facing bins and return contents to MRF area for sorting
14. To organise and bale clean recyclables and move bales to storage area on site awaiting collection
15. Ensure the cabin is kept clean, well maintained, and is in safe working order, i.e., PAT Tested, etc, reporting any issues to the Strategic Sustainability Manager
16. Have full knowledge and understanding of the cleaning process, including the agreed work to be carried out and time allocated to this
17. Maintain the designated waste yard area to an agreed level of cleanliness in line with Client requirements, carrying out all daily, weekly and periodic tasks
18. Have a full working knowledge of all cleaning equipment, materials and approved chemicals used within the premises and to attend all necessary training to be able to use them
19. To comply with the requirements of Health & Safety, other relevant legislation and Client policies
20. Use products carefully and look after all equipment
21. Report any maintenance issues to the Strategic Sustainability Manager
22. Understand and observe MITIE and Client site rules at all times
23. To wear personal protective equipment (PPE) issued is worn
24. Ensure correct PPE is worn and kept clean and tidy
25. Ensure all relevant safety signs (such as Wet Floor Warning Signs) are used correctly and appropriately at all times
26. To observe all Company and Client statutory fire and safety regulations and to promote good safety habits and methods of work
27. To deal with any complaints that fall within the job holder's duties and report these immediately to the Strategic Sustainability Manager
28. Perform miscellaneous cleaning duties as apparent or as instructed by the Strategic Sustainability Manager
29. Report in when arriving and leaving site using Workplace Plus
30. To undertake any other related duties which are within the job holder's capability, according to the needs of the business and as directed by the Strategic Sustainability Manager
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10, - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .