Better places, thriving communities.
ROLE:
Waste Operative
HOURS:
40 hours a week
LOCATION:
Wirral
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We’re looking for a Waste Operative whose primary responsibility will involve the collection, movement, sorting, processing, and dispatch of waste and other materials, both as part of routine scheduled activities and in response to ad hoc client requests. The successful candidate will be required to load, unload and organise both hazardous and non‑hazardous waste from collection points throughout the site, ensuring all tasks are carried out efficiently and safely. In addition, the role includes liaising directly with the client to fulfil ad hoc waste collection requests, conducting regular litter picks in working areas to maintain cleanliness, and ensuring high standards of tidiness are upheld across the site.
Role Responsibilities
- Collect, move, sort, process, and dispatch waste and other materials as part of both routine scheduled activities and ad hoc client requests.
- Load, unload and organise hazardous and non‑hazardous waste from collection points throughout the site.
- Complete daily check sheets for all equipment used.
- Report unsafe conditions, acts, near misses, incidents, or accidents promptly via the appropriate reporting systems.
- Manually lift and move large or bulky items safely.
Required Qualifications
- Valid Fork Lift Truck Licence.
- Previous manual handling training.
- Literacy and numeracy skills sufficient to ensure safe operation in a potentially hazardous environment.
- Previous experience in the waste industry.
What’s in it for you?
- High street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more via our MiDeals platform.
- Life cover of up to four times your salary.
- Enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (with the potential for free shares).
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Shradha Singh at shradha.singh@mitie.com.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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