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Our client is looking for a number of Refuse Collection Drivers to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team working throughout the borough of Barnsley delivering services and responding to community priorities, ensuring that the household waste collection service is completed with the daily task. You will be required to supervise waste crews and manage their day to day operational function’s using paper records and electronic hand held device’s including recording all Health & Safety relating to the daily tasks.
Must hold Class 2 license with TACO and CPC
Duties to include:
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 focused 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.
- Undertake any duties commensurate with the post as requested by management
Working 6am to 15.45 Monday to Friday
If you have the relevant skills and experience please apply via sending in your CV
