Environmental Operative (Loader)
About the role:
Horsham District Council is looking for an Environmental Operative (Loader) to work within the Recycling and Waste teams.
The work will include early morning starts and working outside in all types of weather. It is physically demanding work which includes walking up to 10 miles per day.
Full training and PPE will be provided for you including boots.
Do you also aspire to develop your career into becoming one of our HGV drivers? If so, join as a loader, perform well in your probation, and there may be an opportunity to be sponsored by the council for your driver training. Whilst we cannot guarantee you will move immediately into a driver post, as that will depend on vacancies, it is likely that you will be asked to drive during peak periods of annual leave and other absences.On those occasions, you will receive the salary based on our Driver grades.
In return, you will be working for one of the best waste collection authorities in the area working out of a depot with modern facilities and a great team environment.
Bank holiday working is contractual, except Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year’s Day. Where bank holidays are worked, pay is at the rate of triple time for each bank holiday. Saturday catch-up working is contractual at Christmas and New Year, paid at the rate of time and a half.
About you:
To succeed as an Environmental Operative (Loader), you will need to be a team player with outstanding values and behaviours that align with those of the organisation. You will need to demonstrate that you have a flexible attitude by working in other areas across our services and support other colleagues in the department when you are operationally required to do so.
For an informal discussion about this role please call Paul Greenslade, Operations Manager on 07826 537807.
About us:
We have a friendly and supportive working environment and being a smaller Council, you can really get to know everybody.
We encourage and support our employees to have a healthy work life balance by offering 28 days’ (207.2 hours) annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rata), and flexible/hybrid working options where applicable.
We offer a generous benefits package including an online platform offering discounts from online retailers and access to a car lease scheme. Staff are also eligible to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), where the Council contributes circa 20% of pensionable salary.
To support employees’ professional development the Council provides reimbursement for professional subscriptions and a number of training opportunities, including extensive in-house learning resources, short courses, Apprenticeships, and qualifications such as Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM), Master of Business Administration (MBA).
Visit our Jobs and careers page to find out more about Working for Horsham District Council and Our employment commitments.
To apply:
If you would like to apply for the role, we highly recommend you show clearly within the ‘Experience Section’ of the application form how you meet the essential criteria detailed within the Role Profile when applying. If you do not make this clear, it is unlikely you will be shortlisted for interview.
Internal applicants, if you would like to apply for the role, please submit an expression of interest to HR@horsham.gov.uk explaining clearly how you meet the criteria and what you feel you can bring to the role.
Suitable applicants will be contacted for interview on an ongoing basis therefore this advert may close early.