Specialist HGV Driver - Leicestershire, United Kingdom - Leicestershire County Council

Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Bardon Waste Transfer Station (WTS),Interlink Way South, Bardon Hill, Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 1PH

Worker Category: Fixed Worker Location

Salary: £24,708 - £25,983 per annum plus Market Premia for HGV Driver @ £1.50 per hour

Working Hours: 40.5 hours per week, annualised hours are calculated on a yearly basis.

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 20th May 2024

Interview Date(s): between 27th May and 31st May 2024

An opportunity within the Contracts and Haulage Team at Leicestershire County Council has become available, we are currently looking to recruit a specialist HGV Driver (Ro-Ro) to join the team. The role will be responsible for transporting waste materials from Leicestershire County Council's Recycling and Household Waste Sites (RHWS) to disposal locations, using hook loader heavy goods vehicles (HGVs).

About the Role

The successful candidate will be required to complete all uplifts and other jobs on any given day, and to do so in the most efficient and effective manner. The nature of the work will involve a 4 on 4 off shift pattern with the jobholder carrying out work outside of normal working hours, including bank holidays, weekends and out of hours working.

You will be organised, personable with good communication skills to enable you to interact with council colleagues and external contractors and foster good working relationships.

About You

To apply for this post, you must have:

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Neil Larkin, Senior Haulage Officer

Telephone:

Email:

section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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