Waste and Cleansing Driver/Crew Leader Seafield Depot Salary: £29,173 - £33,287 Hours: 40 per week About the Role We're looking for a motivated Driver/Crew Leader to join our Waste Services team and help keep Edinburgh clean, safe and sustainable. In this key frontline role, you'll drive and operate specialist vehicles, supervise a small crew, and ensure the efficient collection of waste, recycling, litter and bulky materials. You'll be the first point of contact for members of the public, delivering excellent customer service while keeping to the highest safety and service standards. As a driver crew leader, you will work closely with your supervisor to report on route progress, crew performance, and any vehicle related issues, ensuring safe and efficient service delivery. What You'll Do Safely drive LGV and other waste service vehicles. Lead, supervise and support crew members on daily routes. Collect and dispose of waste, recycling and bulky items, ensuring all tasks are completed to schedule. Use in-cab technology to record route progress and report service issues. Provide advice to the public and resolve service-related queries where possible. Ensure health, safety and environmental policies are always followed. What We're Looking For Full UK Driving Licence (Category C) Driver CPC. Experience supervising or leading teams in an operational setting. Good knowledge of vehicles, equipment and waste/cleansing practices. Ability to use handheld technology and in-cab reporting systems. Strong communication and customer service skills. A positive, proactive attitude with the ability to solve day-to-day issues on the job. 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">https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours">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 ">https://counter.adcourier.com/UG9wcHkuQW5kZXJzb24uMjMwNDkuMTM1MzJAY2l0e… ;