Environmental Services Technician

What's involved with this role:
Temporary Environmental Services Technician
Reference no: Sunderland 2024 AGY 04
Pay Rate: £12.59 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Tuesday – Friday, 07:30 - 17:15
This opening assignment is for 7 months
City: SUNDERLAND
Cover all aspects of the service's disciplines including cleansing, refuse collections, loading, and bulky waste collections . The role involves a lot of walking and manual handling. Similar experience and manual handling training would be preferred, however not essential as training will be given.
Key Responsibilities
Complete routine or structured operational work and use basic tools or equipment under general supervision to support the delivery of front-line services which is aligned to customer need.
Undertake work as part of a team or as an individual with a defined routine to set standards, accuracy and quality with instructions provided and minimal planning requirements.
Ensure health and safety requirements are followed in recognising and responding to local circumstances.
Record, report and rectify any faults identified in tools or equipment. Record all pre-use equipment checks.
Record tasks which have been undertaken on time and accurately, highlighting issues and on-site problems to the Team Leader so they are escalated in a timely manner and are rectified promptly.
Required to regularly exchange information with colleagues, receive instructions and report problems to and from your driver and answer straight forward queries from members of the public referring or signposting more complex queries or issues to your Team Leader.
Frequent lifting and carrying moderately heavy items and equipment will be required on a daily basis.
May be required to work at different locations with associated travelling.
Required to wear protective clothing or equipment. Work outdoors in all weather conditions. The job is physically demanding.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
**Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Knowledge:
Knowledge of and adherence to correct manual handling techniques and thereby able to identify and undertake the most appropriate lifting and handling techniques for any task.
An awareness of Health & Safety responsibilities associated with the service.
Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Skills & Abilities:
Able to work outside in a physically demanding role in all types of weather.
Ability to operate basic power tools or equipment associated with your own work area.
Able to carry out routine maintenance tasks under direction.
Ability to follow general instructions and carry out routine and standard operational tasks.
Able to ensure basic power tools and equipment are safe to use and properly adjusted prior to operation.
Able to lift moderately heavy items and equipment.
Able to work effectively within a busy team environment, or independently.
Ability to work outside normal working hours to meet the needs of the service.
The ability to work flexibly across 7 days.
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Job Ref: Sunderland 2024 AGY 04
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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