Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Whetstone RHWS and WTS, Enderby Road, Whetstone, Leicestershire, LE8 6JL
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £27,376.50 to £27,810.57 per annum - A Market Premia (£0.80 per hour) and a Retention Payment also apply to the position, subject to certain conditions.
Working Hours: Annualised Hours – 41.5 hours per week, 1891 hours per annum
Working patterns typically between 35 hours and 45 hours per week.
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 19th December 2024
Interview Date(s): TBC
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Waste Management Delivery Service, as such Leicestershire County Council is looking to recruit to Plant Operatives to support in the operation of the Council’s Waste Transfer Stations (WTS).
All positions are working full time (5 days per week which may include working weekends, both Saturdays and Sundays every week. Bank Holidays that fall within working patterns could be mandatory but paid as double time). Varying hours worked between 6:45am and 6:00pm
Successful candidates will be based on Whetstone WTS; but all candidates must be prepared to be based at any of the three sites on a day-to-day basis (Loughborough and Kibworth)
About the Role
You will be responsible for operating a variety of heavy plant and equipment that will include 5CX, loading shovels, telehandlers, and forklift trucks for the efficient and effective transfer of waste from busy WTS, in strict accordance with safe systems of work. The role will also involve maximising the recovery of recyclables within waste and safely controlling deliveries from private traders and district councils. The role is based in a busy transfer station and involves working outdoors. It is expected that the successful candidates will have previous experience of operating loading shovels and telehandlers at waste or construction sites. However, training may be provided to suitable candidates that have no previous experience of operating this type of plant.
All positions may at times require the candidate to work on the attached Recycling and Household Waste Sites when not operating plant machinery.
About You
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
1. Loading shovel ticket (training may be provided to suitable candidates that do not currently have a valid loading shovel ticket)
2. A full, Clean & Valid UK Driving License and insurance for business use
3. A knowledge of waste transfer station operations
4. Health and safety conscious
5. Effective time-management and problem-solving skills
6. A basic level of IT skills
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Lee Thomas (Waste Operations Officer)
07720 103500
section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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