Role: Recycling Operative
Location: Cox’s Lane, Rowley Regis
Hours: 42.75 hours per week, Mon- Friday, between 8:00 and 17:30
Salary: £13.00p/h
The Role:
We are looking for a hardworking and reliable Recycling Operative to join our busy team, based at recycling facility, in Rowley Regis. Our team specialises in recycling of clean waste, such as cardboard and plastics. If you are looking for an immediate start, a permanent full-time role in a growing profitable business, this could be the role for you!
The Business:
Recycling Lives Services is not a typical recycling company. Since 2008, the business has been structurally built around social value, employing people from disadvantaged backgrounds, partnering with the justice system to reduce reoffending, and delivering environmental excellence at scale. The social mission is not a layer added on top of commercial activity. It is the reason the business operates in the way it does.
We operate UK-wide across construction, manufacturing, retail, utilities and public sector markets, offering total waste management, WEEE recycling, and specialist hazardous waste services.
Key Responsibilities:
- To carry out yard duties and to work on all of the production lines as required.
- To work within and to adopt all H&S procedures that are in force at all the companies’ depots
- To liaise with the supervisor you are working with on a daily basis to determine workloads for the day and any problems arising from the previous day’s production etc.
- To inform management immediately of any defects that may cause any item of equipment to be either unsafe.
- Work on the trommel line as requested
- Ensure machinery daily check sheets are completed
- Safely direct customers to the designated tipping areas
- To keep the area you are working in clean and tidy and free from hazards.
- Any other tasks as required by line managers
What We’re Looking For:
- A positive attitude and eagerness to learn
- Good attention to detail and ability to follow instructions
- Physical capability to perform manual tasks
- Reliability and punctuality
Benefits:
- Full training provided
- Supportive team environment
- Pensions contribution, 5% employee 3% employer
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- Access to free in-house, qualified counselling support
- Access to free impartial financial advisors
- Healthcare cash back plan*
- Access to ethical loan and savings products *
- Enhanced maternity & paternity pay*
- Cycle to work scheme*
- Employees become eligible after 12 months service.
Please note all roles are subject to pre and post employment drug testing.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
