Waste and Cleansing Driver Crew Leader
Seafield Depot
Salary: £29,- £33,
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.