Description Waste and Cleansing Driver Crew Leader Seafield Depot Salary: £29,173- £33,287 (plus £9,385.15 unsocial hours payment) Hours: 36 per week This post is to work on night shift, Purpose of Job The purpose of the job is to help keep the City of Edinburgh Clean by being responsible for the safe operation of waste and cleansing vehicles, uplifting litter, waste and recycling material and providing information and advice about waste and recycling matters to assist the Council to meet cleanliness, landfill and waste recycling targets. This will involve collecting and separating waste and recycling, emptying bins, driving LGV mechanical sweepers, collecting bulky materials, litter and fly-tipping and undertaking any other similar duty. The Driver/Crew Leader will act as a point of contact for customers and service users, providing advice and responding to problems to ensure that the highest standards of customer care are met and maintained. He / she will have responsibility for supervising crew members to ensure that allocated work is completed to an appropriate standard and in line with safe working practices and operating procedures. He/she will provide accurate daily status reports to the Waste and Cleansing Supervisor to enable the immediate identification of issues that may impact on service delivery. We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation. As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work. To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working. You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range. Happy to talk flexible working. Follow us on X at @edincounciljobs View Waste and Cleansing Driver Crew Leader job description Responsibilities Supervision and Management of People (Numbers and type of staff) Post holders report to the Waste and Cleansing Supervisor, who has line management responsibility for a designated group of staff. Driver/Crew Leaders will ensure that crew members are wearing correct PPE prior to commencement of route and at all times during the working day. They are also responsible for ensuring that their crew are working in a safe and professional manner at all times, as well as escalating potential health and safety or disciplinary matters that require investigating. They will allocate tasks to crew members whilst out on route and will ensure that they have been completed to required standards. They will provide on-the-job instruction and guidance to crew members and will deal with routine issues or problems arising in the course of completing the route. Driver/Crew Leaders will be responsible for the handling of crew member conduct and informal resolutions where this is appropriate in line with the Council’s policies and procedures. Where it is not appropriate for informal resolution, Driver/Crew Leaders are responsible for recording and reporting such incidents to the Waste and Cleansing Supervisor in a timely manner (i.e. at or before the end of the working shift). Creativity and Innovation Work procedures are well defined.