SALARY: £29,568 per annum
HOURS: 39 per week, 06:00 – 14:15pm Monday - Friday
LOCATION: Days Road
Loader- Bulky Waste
About Bristol Waste Company:
What we do is important – we’re here to keep Bristol, and beyond, clean, and safe.
We do this for our city’s residents, workers, visitors, and businesses. Our work helps deliver Bristol’s sustainability targets in partnership with the council.
Bristol Waste’s commercial operation, where we serve businesses and organisations across the region, is also growing.
Our ambition is to provide good quality, value for money services, and we continue to deliver a social value impact worth more than £30 million every year.
We want people who share our values and want to work with us to drive our business forward.
Purpose of the role:
A Bulky Waste Operative is responsible for the collection, transportation, and proper disposal of large waste items that cannot be collected through regular waste collection services. These may include furniture, appliances, mattresses, and other oversized household or commercial waste.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collect and remove bulky waste from residential and commercial properties and that materials returned to the depot are properly and safely stored.
- Tipping of vehicle at designated and approved refuse facility and loading and unloading waste materials in accordance with Bristol WasteCompany’s policy, procedures, training and legal requirements, complying with all health and safety requirements
- Maintain cleanliness and orderliness of the collection vehicle and equipment.
- To ensure all company Health and Safety requirements are adhered to, including to ensure that safe lifting and working practices are observed and appropriate personal protective clothing is always worn.
- Use mobile IT equipment and to complete daily paperwork as appropriate.
- Undertake any training/ instruction required to carry out these duties and or deemed necessary to fulfil the role.
- Provide information to members of the public on the operation of Bristol Waste Company procedures as required, including relevant pre-printed information leaflets and respond to both customers and other personnel in a polite, responsible and professional manner.
- To remain in contact with the line manager and office staff and be responsive to operational needs and to aid commercial sales growth through close relationships with sales staff and reporting back any opportunities for growth.
- To work flexibly to provide cover as operationally required, across the services including Commercial, Street Cleansing, Garden Waste, Refuse and Recycling and across all Bristol Waste locations, including Hartcliffe, Avonmouth and Albert Road Depots and to carry out all other tasks deemed reasonable.
- To comply with all BWC reporting procedures.
Essential Requirements for the Role:
- Have experience of, or ability to demonstrate suitability for work involving pushing/pulling waste bins and lifting of recycling boxes and other recyclable/refuse materials up to 25kg
- Good verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- The ability to work independently and to use own initiative
- The ability to work well within a small team
- The ability to use IT systems
- Demonstrable flexible approach to work assignments
Working Conditions:
- Outdoor work in all weather conditions.
- Early morning or shift-based schedules.
- Heavy lifting and physical labour.
- Exposure to waste materials and potentially hazardous environments (with appropriate protective gear provided).
Our Benefits:
- Annual leave package of 25 days plus 8 bank holidays.
- Employer contribution of 5% into the company pension scheme.
- Support for Mental Health, including a BUPA Employee Assistance Programme that provides support covering Mental Health, Financial and Family related topics. We also have Mental Health First Aiders across the business.
- Support for your Physical Health with our BUPA Health Cash Plan (we cover the cost of coverage for you), Cycle to Work scheme and an onsite Physiotherapist. All are free for our colleagues.
- Because we value our colleagues, we want to recruit more employees just like them, which is why we have our employee referral scheme.
- Dedicated learning and development team. We take pride in developing our colleagues and some examples of this include our In-House Driver Development Programme and internal promotions. Many of our Senior Leadership Team have developed from Operational roles, such as one of our Contract Managers who started as a Street Cleanser.
- Employee recognition ‘Stand Out Award’ and long service awards. To celebrate our colleagues wherever they are on their journey with us, we recognise and celebrate talent.
- We recognise that everyone is different and strive to create an environment that supports all colleagues through flexible working. We have introduced a hybrid working model where possible and actively encourage part-time working, job sharing and flexibility on hours. If this interests, you please do get in touch, and we can start a conversation.
Everyone belongs:
At Bristol Waste everyone belongs – we are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation.
We give fair and equal consideration to all applications.
We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence.
Important note on applying:
- Please apply as soon as possible and before 23:59 on the closing date. Sometimes we close vacancies early if we receive a high number of quality applications.
- Due to the high volume of interest, we won’t be able to receive late applications and we are currently unable to respond to all who apply.
- If you haven’t heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, it unfortunately means you won’t be invited to interview on this occasion.
Contact us:
Please contact our People Services team to discuss this role, your application, or any reasonable adjustments and support in applying for this position:
- recruitment@bristolwastecompany.co.uk
- 0117 440 6676