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Recycling Assistant / Team Leader / Weighbridge & Plant (Mobile Site Cover Person)
Salary: £12.74 plus bonus
Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week
Location: Herefordshire
As a Recycling Assistant / Team Leader / Weighbridge & Plant Operative (Site Cover Person), you will travel between sites where required to support recycling performance and site operations. You’ll provide excellent customer service to members of the public, encourage recycling, operate weighbridge and plant machinery when necessary, and ensure that sites remain safe, compliant, and efficient.
This vacancy is for a full-time position, working 5 days a week (Friday to Tuesday).
Our promise to you
- Competitive salary
- 28 days of annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays)
- Pension scheme
- On-the-job training and progression opportunities
- Recognition scheme
- Refer a friend scheme
- Flexible benefits, including high street savings, cycle-to-work scheme and holiday purchase (where applicable)
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and Best Doctors Service via our Wellbeing Platform
What will you be doing?
- Engaging with members of the public to encourage recycling and maximise site performance
- Providing information and advice to site users in a polite, professional manner
- Covering weighbridge operations when required, ensuring accurate data recording (training provided)
- Operating plant and site vehicles safely and professionally (training provided)
- Ensuring compliance with waste management licence requirements
- Maintaining site tidiness, cleanliness and safe working practices
- Assisting with traffic flow, safety and directing users to appropriate waste areas
- Supporting site security, locking/unlocking duties, and operational cover across multiple sites
What are we looking for?
- Experience of working with the public and delivering good customer service
- Full, clean driving licence (essential due to mobile nature of the role)
- Understanding of Health & Safety in the workplace
- Good communication skills (verbal and written)
- Team player who is reliable, honest, and safety-minded
- Plant experience (advantageous, but training provided)
- Must have own transport to get to sites, mileage will be paid
About Us
Severn Waste Services is the public face of municipal waste management in Worcestershire and Herefordshire. We are proud to be part of FCC Environment, one of the nation’s leading waste and resource management companies. Committed to sustainability, we strive to minimise waste sent to landfill by transforming it into valuable resources wherever possible.
We operate numerous facilities across England, Scotland, and Wales, employing around 4,200 dedicated people. The UK's recycling and waste management industry has never been more critical. We need innovative individuals who are up for the challenge of tackling climate change. We need people with fresh ideas. We need you. Together, we will meet the UK’s waste management and energy recovery needs.
FCC Environment is an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment.
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