SALARY: £28,675.92 per annum
HOURS: 39 hours per week, Monday – Friday, 06:00 - 14:30
LOCATION: Days Road, Bristol
Role Purpose
A Fly Tip Loader 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 Accountabilities
- Collect and remove Fly Tipped waste from adopted highways across Bristol
- Tipping of vehicle at designated and approved refuse facility and loading and unloading waste materials in accordance with Bristol Waste Company’s policy, procedures, training and legal requirements, complying with all health and safety requirements
- 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.
- Maintain cleanliness and orderliness of the collection vehicle and equipment.
- To remain in contact with the line manager and office staff and be responsive to operational needs
- 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.
Essential Skills, Knowledge, Experience & Behaviours :
Skills:
- Strong practical skills in manual handling, lifting, and safe operation of equipment.
- Ability to use mobile IT devices to record work, follow instructions, and complete daily documentation.
- Effective communication skills, enabling clear updates to supervisors and teamwork with colleagues.
- Good situational awareness and safety focus, ensuring safe working practices in public spaces and roadside environments.
- Ability to work independently and manage workload, even in changing operational conditions.
Knowledge:
- Working knowledge of Health & Safety requirements, including PPE, manual handling, and safe working procedures.
- Understanding of waste handling and disposal processes, including segregation and legal compliance.
- Familiarity with local geography, particularly Bristol’s streets, depots, and disposal facilities.
- Awareness of company policies, environmental responsibilities, and service standards.
- Basic understanding of vehicle cleanliness and equipment care requirements.
Experience:
- Experience in waste collection, street cleansing, grounds maintenance, or similar manual outdoor work.
- Proven experience in manual handling and working in physically demanding environments.
- Experience using handheld devices or mobile IT systems for logging work or following job instructions.
- Previous work in a safety‑critical or compliance‑focused environment, following procedures and regulations.
- Experience working flexibly across teams or services, ideally in an operational or public‑facing setting.
Expected Behaviours
- Work collaboratively
- Act with integrity
- Respect others
- Prioritise safety and wellbeing
- Communicate openly
- Deliver results
Our Benefits:
- Annual leave package of 25 days plus 8 bank holidays (Dependant on contract).
- 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.
- All colleagues receive free access to our Reward Gateway discount scheme, helping you make your money go further with savings at over 900 retailers. It’s one of the ways we support smart spending and everyday wellbeing.
- 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 Recruitment 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
Thank you for your interest in joining Bristol Waste Company.