Job Description – Industrial Services Cleaner / Viridor
Department/location: Specialist Industrial Services Midlands Division
Hours of work: 40 hours, 5 days per week
Reports to: Operations Manager
Holiday: 25 days P/A plus 8 bank holidays
Other benefits: Company pension, company bonus scheme, life insurance
Job Summary:
You will be working as part of a team carrying out various industrial cleaning tasks and site housekeeping
tasks, including site clearance and spill response. This is a physical role involving manual handling, waste
removal and working outdoors and occasionally in confined spaces.
The role is full time, 40 hours per week, with some overtime opportunities at weekends or evenings. Our
Industrial Services Cleaners are all specially trained to work in confined spaces, on energy recovery facilities
(ERF) & operating mobile plant & high-pressure water jetting equipment as required.
To apply for the role of Industrial Services Cleaner it is desirable you will have a CCNSG qualification or
equivalent although this can be achieved post-employment. You must be hard-working and not afraid of
working outdoors or in confined spaces and be highly reliable. Due to the hazards of working in such
environments we have a strict safety policy and you must be the sort of person who will contribute to our
safety culture and be able to pass a drug and alcohol test. You will be working on customer sites and you
need to be a good ambassador for the company ensuring the customer experience is a positive one.
This is an opportunity to enter the industrial services working environment, gaining experience of industrial
cleaning in an ERF Plant while undergoing the training required for the wider industrial services world.
Main Duties will include (but not be limited to):
Manual Cleaning
➢ General site cleaning: sweeping and shovelling, washing down, litter picking.
➢ Jet washing activities.
➢ Use of various hand tools to include: shovels, pick axes, pneumatic tools, wheel barrows, hammers
etc. to break up and move materials.
➢ Janitorial tasks, can include greasing mechanical systems, using small hand tools etc to put up
signage, stocking up eye wash stations etc.
Operation of Disab vacuum hose (not all sites – on job training will be provided)
➢ Manual "working" of flexible rubber hose to vacuum up solids, sludges and liquids.
➢ Flexible rubber hose is anything between 2" and 8" diameter and comes in lengths up to 10m long
(normal working lengths would be up to 4m).
➢ Manual carrying, lifting or dragging of the above flexible pipes to and from the work site – this may
include negotiating stairs, slopes and uneven surfaces.
General H&S Responsibilities:
➢ Comply with Health & Safety requirements: as per training, policies, procedures, risk assessments,
method statements, safe systems of work etc.
➢ Actively seek to improve safety culture.
➢ Report any H&S issues/accidents/near misses to your line manager immediately.