HGV Driver

Pay Rate: £15.17 per hour PAYE

Weekends and Bank Holidays £30.34 per hour

35-37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours

4 months

HGV driver, may also work pulling bins, collecting bulky items from homes.

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team working throughout the borough delivering council services and responding to community priorities ensuring that the household waste collection service is completed with the daily task.

Supervise waste crews and manage their day-to-day operational function's (via paper records or electronic hand-held devices) including all Health & Safety relating to the daily tasks.

Key responsibilities:

Undertake operational duties which will involve a wide range of physically and mentally demanding tasks in all weathers.

Ensure the completion of all daily tasks while ensuring the safety of employees, colleagues, and members of the public including children; you will be responsible for the safe collection of bins along your route.

Understand the operation of mechanical machinery to facilitate emptying of refuse containers.

Be responsible for the careful day to day use, cleanliness, maintenance, security of vehicles/plant, machinery, and equipment provided to undertake the daily task.

Be customer focussed and deal with exchanges of information in a polite, courteous and positive manner responding to minor requests for service delivery and where necessary report problems to a supervisor or manager.

Work under the guidance of the line manager and by application of personal initiative to deliver services to a professional standard and within agreed procedures or timescales.

Work to agreed schedules and where necessary respond to new priorities as required or directed by line manager to ensure deadlines are met.

Demonstrate safe working practices, give advice and train other employees, apprentice's, trainees and students where required. Be responsible for the Health and Safety of all employees under your direct supervision.

Adhere to Customer Care, Dignity at Work, Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, CPC and other relevant legislation, policies and procedures at all times.

Interested please apply