Site Team Leader
Hourly Rate – £15.22 per hour (plus benefits)
Hours – 34.5 hours per week, 09:00 to 17:00
Location & Postcode – Leighton Buzzard HWRC, LU7 3BT
As a Site Team Leader at FCC Environment, you will lead the site team in the safe and effective operation of a Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC). You will play a key role in ensuring waste is correctly segregated, recyclable materials are maximised, and excellent customer service is delivered to members of the public, all while maintaining the highest standards of health, safety and compliance.
This vacancy is for a full-time position, working as part of a rota that includes weekend work.
Our promise to you
- Competitive salary
- 20 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Pension scheme
- On-the-job training and progression
- Recognition scheme
- Refer a Friend scheme
- Flexible benefits, including high street savings, Cycle to Work scheme and Gymflex membership (where applicable)
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and Best Doctors Service via our wellbeing platform
What will you be doing?
- Leading the site team through daily operations, passing on instructions from the management team
- Managing a busy trade waste facility
- Ensuring all waste streams are correctly segregated and stored in line with permit requirements
- Assisting and advising members of the public with recycling and waste disposal
- Maintaining high standards of site cleanliness, presentation and customer service
- Ensuring health, safety and environmental procedures are followed at all times
- Reporting accidents, near misses and incidents via EcoOnline
- Completing Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Annual checks within required timescales
- Training new starters and agency staff on site duties and safe working practices
- Monitoring PPE, tools and site stock levels and arranging reorders where required
- Ensuring completion and accuracy of Waste Transfer Notes and Consignment Notes
- Acting as First Aider, Fire Marshal and Materials Handler Operative
- Ensuring all staff and visitors wear appropriate PPE
What are we looking for?
- Proven experience in a similar supervisory or team leader role
- Knowledge of the waste industry and waste streams
- Proven experience leading and motivating a team
- A strong commitment to health, safety and environmental standards
- Excellent customer service and communication skills
- Ability to work independently, use initiative and remain resilient
- Experience working on a weighbridge
- Flexible approach to working hours, including weekends
- Full UK driving licence
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.
We operate over 200 facilities in England, Scotland and Wales and employ around 4,500 people.
The profile of the UK's recycling and waste management industry has never been higher. We need people who are up for the challenge to help us tackle climate change. We need people with ideas. We need you. Together we will meet the UK’s waste management and energy recovery needs.
FCC Environment is an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity, and we are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment.
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£15.22 - £15.22 per hour