Overview
SALARY: £15.78 per hour
HOURS: Saturdays and Sundays 05:00 am - 12:00
LOCATION: Days Road
Role: Driver Team Leader - weekend
Employer: Bristol Waste Company
What we do is important – we’re here to keep Bristol, and beyond, clean, and safe. We do this for our city’s residents, workers, visitors, and businesses. Our work helps deliver Bristol’s sustainability targets in partnership with the council. Bristol Waste’s commercial operation, where we serve businesses and organisations across the region, is also growing. Our ambition is to provide good quality, value for money services, and we continue to deliver a social value impact worth more than £30 million every year. We want people who share our values and want to work with us to drive our business forward.
Purpose of the Role
Your role will be to drive, and cleanse allocated routes within Bristol and lead a team of street cleansing operatives, ensuring compliance with all aspects of health and safety.
Key Responsibilities
* Drive normally a 3.5T van, carry out daily vehicle checks to ensure the vehicle is safe to operate, reporting all defects in line with Bristol Waste Company (BWC) policies and procedures and ensure the condition of the vehicle is cleaned and maintained both inside and out
* Manually sweep, push/pull a wheelie bin or barrel, empty litter bins, lift refuse sacks onto van and litter pick and dig out weeds as required
* Collect dilly sacks, cleanse shop fronts and empty litter bins in line with required schedules
* Allocate and monitor all tasks, prioritise cleansing of individual streets where necessary, proactively identify areas requiring attention and direct the team to ensure completion of routes to agreed standards and within required timescales
* Complete route checks and grade work standards of team
* Report any conduct or performance issues relating to operatives to the Supervisor
* Drive the safety culture within the organisation, contributing to a positive and safe working environment, directing, and supporting the operatives to carry out the job function in line with BWC’s health and safety policy and procedures and ensure equipment used is correct for the task, kept safe and maintained to a good standard
Essential Requirements for the Role
* It is essential to have a full driving licence valid for use in the UK
* Demonstrable ability to lead a team
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to lead and motivate the team and liaise effectively with the public and colleagues
* Sound literacy skills to follow route maps and to comply with driving and health and safety responsibilities
* Ability to work independently and to use initiative for example, in prioritising streets to be cleansed
* Demonstrable technical knowledge of the vehicle and equipment to ensure its safe and proper use
Our Benefits
* Annual leave package of 25 days plus 8 bank holidays
* Employer contribution of 5% into the company pension scheme
* Support for Mental Health, including a BUPA Employee Assistance Programme that provides support covering Mental Health, Financial and Family related topics. We also have Mental Health First Aiders across the business
* Support for your Physical Health with our BUPA Health Cash Plan (we cover the cost of coverage for you), Cycle to Work scheme and an onsite Physiotherapist
* Employee referral scheme
* Dedicated learning and development team, including in-house Driver Development Programme and internal promotions
* Employee recognition and long service awards
* Flexible working options where possible, including hybrid working and encouragement of part-time hours
Everyone Belongs
At Bristol Waste everyone belongs – we are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We give fair and equal consideration to all applications and welcome applicants from all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, religions or beliefs and neurodiversity.
Important Note On Applying
* Please apply as soon as possible and before 23:59 on the closing date. Vacancies may close early if there is high volume of quality applications.
* Due to the high volume of interest, late applications may not be accepted and we may not respond to all applicants.
* If you haven’t heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, you won’t be invited to interview on this occasion.
Contact Us
Please contact our People Services team to discuss this role, your application, or any reasonable adjustments and support in applying for this position:
* recruitment@bristolwastecompany.co.uk
* 0117 440 6676
Thank you for your interest in joining Bristol Waste Company.
Job Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Part-time
* Job function: Management and Manufacturing
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