Waste Champion in Southampton

Waste Champion

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Contract: Permanent

Type: Full time

Hours: 40

Pay: £13.82

Location: Westquay Shopping Centre, Southampton

Job Overview

The Waste Champion plays a key role in supporting Westquay's sustainability and operational objectives by managing waste and recycling practices across both public and back-of-house areas. The role focuses on retailer engagement, improving recycling performance, and maintaining safe, compliant service yard operations within a busy retail environment. The role will be provided with full training and be expected to help us achieve our agreed waste targets.

Main Duties

• To ensure that all service yards and waste handling areas are always maintained to the highest standards.
• Maintain a strong presence in service yards and delivery corridors, ensuring waste areas remain clean, safe, and organised.
• Work alongside security and cleaning teams to manage congestion, waste build-up, and access issues.
• Support safe operations around waste equipment, reporting defects or misuse.
• Assist in reducing poor waste management in back-of-house areas
• Ensure waste is correctly segregated in line with site procedures and environmental legislation
• Actively support the use and management of site assets, including compactors, balers, food waste, and recycling areas
• Work collaboratively within a small on-site team, supporting each other to deliver operational and sustainability goals.
• Act as the point of contact for retailers in relation to waste and recycling
• To understand your areas of responsibility and the equipment and chemicals used whilst following Health and Safety requirements.
• You will be required to successfully complete all training required to deliver the Waste champion role.
• Demonstrate initiative and ability to drive innovation.
• You will be required to work within a team and be able to work under your own initiative.
• You will need to build positive and productive working relationships with all customers, delivering excellent customer service and seeking ways to continuously improve and exceed expectations.

Requirements

To be successful in this role you will need have the ability to communicate and read basic English. Previous waste experience is essential, and you must have a flexible approach to the role. You will need to be open, honest, self-driven and determined. You'll need to be reliable and hardworking with a professional attitude.

• holiday entitlement
• pension contributions
• discount through MiDeals to over 850 high street retailers
• cycle to work
• free parking
• options to buy extra holiday
• save as you earn scheme
• share incentive plan
• recognition
• wellbeing incentives such as Mitie Stars and many other benefits

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we'll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle.

• dental insurance
• dining cards
• coffee clubs
• buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.

• Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants.
• save-as-you-earn scheme
• Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie)

• Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work.
• cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there's a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie's 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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