Are you looking to kick start your career in an exciting and impactful industry?
This is an exciting opportunity to join our waste management team at both Ivybridge Depot and Torr Quarry, Kingsbridge whilst undertaking and successfully completing an administrative based Level 3 apprenticeship programme with the Councils. You will be supporting essential services such as recycling, refuse collections, garden waste, trade waste, and street cleansing.
You will need to be organised, be able to work on your own initiative as well as part of the team and have the ability to switch between tasks, sometimes at short notice, in order to meet the demands of the service. You will receive support from the Team Leader, Supervisor and the rest of the team,.
The successful applicant will be customer focused, with excellent IT skills preferably with experience of dealing with a wide range of customers. You will also need excellent communication skills both in writing and over the telephone, have good attention to detail and be confident and self-motivated with managing your own workload.
This is an excellent opportunity to gain valuable administrative experience while contributing to environmental sustainability. Based in our busy offices, you will play a key role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our services.
You’ll be working closely with our permanent crews and temporary staff and support with all kinds of Business support and HR related issues. No two days will be the same as you’ll also need to help complete daily rotas, holiday requests, procurement, and stock management as well as complete and index auditable documentation.
If you're interested, we would love to hear from you.
More details of the apprenticeship can be found here
For an informal discussion please contact Andrew Patton, Operations Coordinator at andy.patton@swdevon.gov.uk or call 01752 698547.