Hgv Driver - Plymouth, United Kingdom - Cleantech People

Cleantech People

Verified Company

Plymouth, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

**What's involved with this role:

Job Ref:
Plymouth RQ1200574

Driving and collecting wheelie bin waste from businesses across Plymouth in a range of vehicles from 7.5t through to 26t.

Also collecting bulky waste items from households in Plymouth.

Key Responsibilities:

Driving and operating specialised equipment and HGV in line with training and/or licencing in a public environment and on permitted sites.

Driving must be courteous and strictly in accordance with the law and any site requirements. This will often require manoeuvring vehicles in a confined or restricted space ensuring the safety of all persons.

Undertaking collection of all waste streams in accordance with relevantlegislation and working within defined schedules, procedures, policies and safe systems of work. Decision making required for unplanned events and problem solving to avoid disruption to service with access to a manager as requiredTaking charge of allocated vehicle and ensuring daily start/end shift roadworthy checks and defect reporting as well as regular cleansing inside the cab and externally such as the well.
Undertaking quality recording and completion of relevant checks and documentation s both digital and paper records.
Supervising and motivating crew members to ensure productivity when required, staff welfare and compliance with relevant standards and safe systems of work for a greener cleaner city. Checking work and ensuring quality service delivery and customer satisfaction.
Periodic requirements for high physical effort: lifting and carrying heavy items, moving containers.
Undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade of the post and to achieve departmental outcomes.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF.

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.
Other "Essential Requirements" - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Qualifications:

Functional skills in English and Maths level 2 or equivalent Full driving license including HGV Category C Driving Licence
Current Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC)
WAMITAB level 2 Certification of Sustainable Waste Management Operative (or working towards)
IOSH Working Safely (or working towards)

Knowledge:

Knowledge of Health and Safety in an operational environment.
Knowledge of Health and Safety regulations including Lifting Operation Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) (or working towards)
Understanding of customer standards in a public service

Experience:

Demonstrable experience of HGV Category C/C+EDriving (specialist operational vehicles)
Experience working in a front line customer facing role delivering high standards of customer care Experience of working in a team
Experience of safe systems of work and health and safety in an operational environment

Skills & Abilities:

Judgement skills required to assess working conditions, safety issues and unplanned events such as hazardous waste, understanding when to escalate issues to a manager. Customer service skills to ensure customer queries are responded to appropriately and deescalated ensuring a focus on customer care
Physical skills required to lift, pull, and push container bins at periodic times of the day. Communication and motivational skills to provide on the job training and mentoring as well as direction and checking of working practice and quality/standards
Ability to solve straight forward problems regarding access issues and conditions of containers.
Ability to work unsupervised ,problem solving skills and use own initiative for unplanned events, impacting service delivery
Considerable hand/eye/limb coordination with lengthy periods of mental concentration to operate the vehicle and work with a collection team in all conditions, meet deadlines, service expectations and deal with conflicting demands.

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**Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please