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Recycling Operative
Hourly Rate- £10.42 per hour (plus overtime and benefits)
Hours – 25 hours per week
Depot Address (inc. Postcode) – Sudbury, CO10 7HG
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As a Recycling Operative at FCC Environment, we will train you to deliver a high standard of customer service to the public by actively encouraging reuse and recycling as well as assisting the public with their waste disposal.
This vacancy is for a full-time position, working 5 days per week including weekends, however, we will consider requests for job shares to suit your lifestyle (working full days).
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Our promise to you
•Competitive salary
• Staff discount in our charity re-use shops
•20 days annual leave (full-time working)
• Bank Holiday overtime + lieu day
•Pension scheme
•Life Insurance
•Vocational training/progression
•Uniform provided free
•Recognition rewards
•Flexible benefits including high street savings, cycle to work scheme and Gymflex membership
•Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and the Best Doctors Service
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What will you be doing?
As part of a team you will encourage and assist customers to reuse and recycle their items brought to the recycling centres, reducing waste and helping the environment.
Working with the team it is important to maintain a safe and efficient Recycling Centre service.
Ensuring that the highest standard of customer care is always maintained, by meeting, greeting, assisting, and advising customers is really important to us and our customers.
We work with our local charity partner to identify items suitable for reuse and sale by the charity, raising money for their work with young people in Suffolk.
Full training will be provided for a physical job, including full induction and manual handling training for your career on recycling.
Career progression available from apprenticeship up to degree level for those that want and show the right aptitude.
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What are we looking for?
•Experience of working in a customer facing setting desirable, but not essential.
•Experience of working at a Recycling Centre and or in a waste and/or recycling setting desirable, but not essential.
•Experience of working in a heavily regulated environment desirable, but not essential
•No previous knowledge required but a keen interest in improving recycling rates and actively diverting valuable items to re-use such as bikes, televisions, furniture etc.
•Ability to approach public and ask if they need assistance
•Courteous towards customers, clients and colleagues
•Commitment to delivering high levels of customer service.
•Sufficiently resilient and robust to effectively manage third parties.
•Good timekeeper
•Self-motivated.
•Must be able to work by alone or as a team.
•Must be honest and hardworking.
•Must be prepared to work Weekends and Bank Holidays
•Sites open 6 days a week: Required to work any 5 out of 6 days with possible split rest days dependant on operational requirements.
Sites closed Wednesdays, Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Year's day
•Location - May be asked to work on any Suffolk RC
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About Us
We are FCC Environment, one of the nation’s leading waste and resource management companies. Committed to sustainability, we strive to minimise the amount of waste that ends up in landfill by transforming it into valuable resources wherever possible. Our vision is to be the environmental company of choice, delivering change for a sustainable future.
We operate over 200 facilities in England, Scotland and Wales and employ around 2,500 people.
The profile of the UK's recycling and waste management industry has never been higher. With a real drive for Net Zero and the Environment Act in place, DEFRA’s Resources and Waste strategy has focused our minds on ever more recycling and best practice in waste management. And with more local authorities calling a Climate Crisis, the pressure is on us all as citizens and us as a business to reduce waste and maximise re-use and recovery. We need people who are up for the challenge. We need people with ideas. We need you. Together we will meet the UK’s waste management and energy recovery needs.
FCC Environment are equal opportunities employers, we value diversity and we are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
How to apply
So, if you want to advance or kickstart your career as a Recycling Operative, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit; the services are those of an Employment Agency.
Recycling Operative
Hourly Rate- £10.42 per hour (plus overtime and benefits)
Hours – 25 hours per week
Depot Address (inc. Postcode) – Sudbury, CO10 7HG
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As a Recycling Operative at FCC Environment, we will train you to deliver a high standard of customer service to the public by actively encouraging reuse and recycling as well as assisting the public with their waste disposal.
This vacancy is for a full-time position, working 5 days per week including weekends, however, we will consider requests for job shares to suit your lifestyle (working full days).
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Our promise to you
•Competitive salary
• Staff discount in our charity re-use shops
•20 days annual leave (full-time working)
• Bank Holiday overtime + lieu day
•Pension scheme
•Life Insurance
•Vocational training/progression
•Uniform provided free
•Recognition rewards
•Flexible benefits including high street savings, cycle to work scheme and Gymflex membership
•Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and the Best Doctors Service
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What will you be doing?
As part of a team you will encourage and assist customers to reuse and recycle their items brought to the recycling centres, reducing waste and helping the environment.
Working with the team it is important to maintain a safe and efficient Recycling Centre service.
Ensuring that the highest standard of customer care is always maintained, by meeting, greeting, assisting, and advising customers is really important to us and our customers.
We work with our local charity partner to identify items suitable for reuse and sale by the charity, raising money for their work with young people in Suffolk.
Full training will be provided for a physical job, including full induction and manual handling training for your career on recycling.
Career progression available from apprenticeship up to degree level for those that want and show the right aptitude.
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What are we looking for?
•Experience of working in a customer facing setting desirable, but not essential.
•Experience of working at a Recycling Centre and or in a waste and/or recycling setting desirable, but not essential.
•Experience of working in a heavily regulated environment desirable, but not essential
•No previous knowledge required but a keen interest in improving recycling rates and actively diverting valuable items to re-use such as bikes, televisions, furniture etc.
•Ability to approach public and ask if they need assistance
•Courteous towards customers, clients and colleagues
•Commitment to delivering high levels of customer service.
•Sufficiently resilient and robust to effectively manage third parties.
•Good timekeeper
•Self-motivated.
•Must be able to work by alone or as a team.
•Must be honest and hardworking.
•Must be prepared to work Weekends and Bank Holidays
•Sites open 6 days a week: Required to work any 5 out of 6 days with possible split rest days dependant on operational requirements.
Sites closed Wednesdays, Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Year's day
•Location - May be asked to work on any Suffolk RC
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About Us
We are FCC Environment, one of the nation’s leading waste and resource management companies. Committed to sustainability, we strive to minimise the amount of waste that ends up in landfill by transforming it into valuable resources wherever possible. Our vision is to be the environmental company of choice, delivering change for a sustainable future.
We operate over 200 facilities in England, Scotland and Wales and employ around 2,500 people.
The profile of the UK's recycling and waste management industry has never been higher. With a real drive for Net Zero and the Environment Act in place, DEFRA’s Resources and Waste strategy has focused our minds on ever more recycling and best practice in waste management. And with more local authorities calling a Climate Crisis, the pressure is on us all as citizens and us as a business to reduce waste and maximise re-use and recovery. We need people who are up for the challenge. We need people with ideas. We need you. Together we will meet the UK’s waste management and energy recovery needs.
FCC Environment are equal opportunities employers, we value diversity and we are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
How to apply
So, if you want to advance or kickstart your career as a Recycling Operative, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit; the services are those of an Employment Agency.
