EDINBURGH Recycling Service Operative (Collection Driver)

Change Waste Recycling provides award winning recycling and waste services to businesses nationwide, enabling them to reduce waste, carbon and costs.  As an industry, waste management is beginning to assert itself as an important part of the environmental agenda. Our unique approach is to foster long-term business partnerships that support, educate, and inspire our clients to reduce their emissions and comply with the Waste (Scotland) Regulations.

We now have another exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join our driving team in continuing to deliver our exceptional and award winning collections service in Edinburgh, and work towards their HGV licence apprenticeship.   

This is a customer facing role and you will be required to demonstrate excellent commitment to customer service, and have a flexible, friendly and enthusiastic attitude to your work.  If you are looking for a change in career and this sounds like you then we'd like to hear from you!

Job title

Recycling Service Operative

Location of job

Edinburgh

Hours and terms

40 hours per week (Mon-Fri, plus additional weekend shifts required)

Holiday terms

32 days per annum plus 3 public holidays

Purpose of the job

To ensure exceptional levels of service are achieved whilst meeting company objectives. The focus is to deliver recycling collections to clients in a friendly and efficient manner.

Main tasks and activities

• Manage workload to complete all collections in a timeous manner.
• Record collection data on handheld mobile technology.
• Establish rapport with clients in an open and engaging manner.
• Identify opportunities to deliver additional services.
• Communicate effectively on a day to day basis.
• Understand agreed service levels and ensure they are upheld.
• Maintain a courteous and positive disposition with clients at all times.
• Support other team members as directed by line manager.

Person Specification

To be successful for this role, candidates will need to demonstrate how they meet the following criteria:

• Personable and Professional, with excellent verbal communication.
• Structured organisational and time management skills.
• Analytical and methodical approach to problem solving.
• Ability to take decisions when appropriate and work in an unsupervised manner, continually improving own professional standards.

Recycling Service Operatives collect recycling and waste from our clients with a positive disposition, to a high professional standard, and always safely and on time. This is a physical role; you will have a strong commitment to safe manual handling procedures. 

As a front line team member you will demonstrate excellent commitment to customer service and have a flexible, friendly and enthusiastic attitude to your work. You will be the sort of person who can deliver to tight deadlines and work equally well as a team member or on your own.

By driving and delivering the collection service you will complete around 80 collections a day, so will require a good geographical knowledge of the Edinburgh area and have the ability to organise your own workload using mobile technology.

Ideally, you will possess a clean driving licence and have experience driving 3.5t vehicles.

​​​​​​Salary and benefits

• Starting salary based on the Real Living Wage (£12 per hour)
• Enrolment into our HGV apprenticeship, with opportunity for salary progression
• Performance based cash incentives
• 8% employer pension contribution
• First class training and support
• Generous benefits package

This is an excellent trainee opportunity for the right candidate, who will benefit from training and support to work towards their HGV qualification. 

We intend to contact you as soon as possible with an update on the status of your application.  Please note that if all information is not provided we will not be able to progress your application.  Applications are processed on a regular basis and all communication will be sent initially be email.  Should there be a high number of applications then this advert may close earlier than anticipated. 

Apply now via the company’s dedicated recruitment portal.