Collections Loader – Albert Road at Bristol Waste Company

SALARY: £30,639.07 per annum

HOURS: 39 per week, 06:00 — 14:18pm Monday – Friday

LOCATION: Albert Road Depot

POSITION: Collections Loader

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 £20 million every year. We want people who share our values and want to work with us to drive our business forward.

Purpose: We are now recruiting for enthusiastic and dedicated loaders to join our friendly team at Albert Road. This is a physical role that will keep you fit! You will be loading and unloading waste and recycling materials, according to agreed customer requirements, Bristol Waste company procedures and all external legal requirements. You will ensure that all refuse and recyclable materials are collected from customers on the rounds, sorting, separating, and bulking of any material appropriately. You will ensure safe lifting and working practices are used, as well as using appropriate personal protective clothing is always worn.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all refuse and recyclable materials are collected from individual customers on the rounds, sorting, separating and bulking of any materials where applicable and that materials returned to the depot are properly and safely stored.
• 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 Refuse and Recycling.
• 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.

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.

Equal Opportunity: 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.