Recycling Service Operative (Collection Driver)

Job Title: Recycling Service Operative (Collection Driver)
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: Starting salary based on the Real Living Wage (£12 per hour)
Job Type: 40 hours per week (Mon-Fri, plus additional weekend shifts required) Full time, Permanent
Change Waste Recycling provides award winning recycling and waste services to businesses nationwide, enabling them to reduce waste, carbon and costs. As an industry, waste management is beginning to assert itself as an important part of the environmental agenda. Our unique approach is to foster long-term business partnerships that support, educate, and inspire our clients to reduce their emissions and comply with the Waste (Scotland) Regulations.
The Role:
We are looking for the right candidates to join our driving team in continuing to deliver our exceptional and award-winning collections service in Edinburgh and Glasgow, with the opportunity to work towards their HGV licence apprenticeship.
This is a customer facing role and you will be required to demonstrate excellent commitment to customer service, and have a flexible, friendly, and enthusiastic attitude to your work. If you are looking for a change in career and this sounds like you then we'd like to hear from you!
Purpose of the job:
To ensure exceptional levels of service are achieved whilst meeting company objectives. The focus is to deliver recycling collections to clients in a friendly and efficient manner.
Main tasks and activities:
* Manage workload to complete all collections in a timeous manner.
* Record collection data on handheld mobile technology.
* Establish rapport with clients in an open and engaging manner.
* Identify opportunities to deliver additional services.
* Communicate effectively on a day-to-day basis.
* Understand agreed service levels and ensure they are upheld.
* Maintain a courteous and positive disposition with clients at all times.
* Support other team members as directed by line manager.
Person Specification:
To be successful for this role, candidates will need to demonstrate how they meet the following criteria:
* Personable and Professional, with excellent verbal communication.
* Structured organisational and time management skills.
* Analytical and methodical approach to problem solving.
* Ability to take decisions when appropriate and work in an unsupervised manner, continually improving own professional standards.
Recycling Service Operatives collect recycling and waste from our clients with a positive disposition, to a high professional standard, and always safely and on time. This is a physical role; you will have a strong commitment to safe manual handling procedures.
As a front-line team member you will demonstrate excellent commitment to customer service and have a flexible, friendly, and enthusiastic attitude to your work. You will be the sort of person who can deliver to tight deadlines and work equally well as a team member or on your own.
By driving and delivering the collection service you will complete around 80 collections a day, so will require a good geographical knowledge of the Edinburgh area and have the ability to organise your own workload using mobile technology.
Ideally, you will possess a clean driving licence and have experience driving 3.5t vehicles.
​​​​​​Salary and Benefits:
* 32 days per annum plus 3 public holidays
* Enrolment into our HGV apprenticeship
* Salary progression through performance appraisal
* Performance based cash incentives
* 8% employer pension contribution
* First class training and support
* Generous benefits package
This is an excellent trainee opportunity for the right candidate, who will benefit from training and support to work towards their HGV qualification.
We intend to contact you as soon as possible with an update on the status of your application. Please note that if all information is not provided we will not be able to progress your application. Applications are processed on a regular basis and all communication will be sent initially be email. Should there be a high number of applications then this advert may close earlier than anticipated.
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job title of; Class 1, Driver, HGV Driver, HGV Class 1 Driver, Logistics Driver, Transport Driver, Delivery Driver, HGV Class 2 Driver, Logistics Driver, Roll On Roll Off Driver, Waste Management Driver may also be considered for this role