Environmental Team Assistant (Recycling, Waste and Garden Waste Collections)

Job Description

Job Category: General Industrial
Location: Hardshaw Brook Depot, Parr Street, WA9 1JR, St. Helens MBC
Hours Per Week: 30.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 06:30
End Time: 19:00
Salary: £9.99

⦁ To work flexibly as part of a team and assist the Environmental Team Leaders in providing a quality, customer focused recycling and waste service that provides value for money and meets the needs of all our customers across the borough.
⦁ To ensure the safe collection of scheduled recycling and waste collections on a daily basis.
⦁ To continuously reduce collection complaints / problems, improve service delivery quality and maximize St Helens recycling performance.

Duties and Responsibilities:
1. To promote flexible and team based working and to work flexibly across the service to ensure that all daily recycling and waste collections and tasks are completed on the scheduled day.
2. To work flexibly as part of the Recycling and Waste team in all areas and on all waste streams, vehicles or crews as directed by a Supervisor as part of group / depot based team working – whereby all teams work together until the daily collections / work tasks have been completed. This means that teams working on recycling collections work together as one team to complete all recycling collection tasks; the same applies to teams working on refuse collection and garden waste collections.
3. To work flexibly, including longer hours as and when required, where vehicle breakdowns, traffic congestion / accidents, delays at waste transfer stations or bank holidays make it necessary to do so in order to complete service delivery on the specified day.
4. To promote a professional image of the council at all times by the maintenance and proper wearing of uniform, protective clothing and ID and to report any missing or damaged items (e.g. torn clothing) to a supervisor before leaving the depot and to the Environmental Team Leader whilst on site. Personal identification must be worn and displayed at all times.
5. To empty and return the full range of recycling and waste containers on the allocated round;
6. To safely load and remove wheeled bins used for residual / trade waste, garden waste and recycling materials using bin lift mechanisms.
7. To transfer material from all recycling containers into the correct compartments within the vehicle, including separating mixed materials in certain containers.
8. To report deviations from 100% completion of allocated work along with the reason to the Environmental Team Leader as they occur.