Recycling Operative

Do you have experience of operating machinery and mobile plant, including loading shovels, 360 excavators and forklift trucks? If you're naturally practical and willing to work outdoors, we have a range of shift patterns to suit you as **Recycling Operative**, working at** **Grundon's busy recycling facility at **Colnbrook, near Heathrow. **You will join a committed team on a permanent contract with a **starting hourly rate of** **£11.55- £13.05 (plus shift allowance if working on a 4-on-4-off pattern)**, depending on skill level, plus a host of great benefits, including:

- Discretionary company bonuses
- Pension scheme (you contribute 5% of pay, Grundon matches this) with life insurance cover
- 31 or 21.5 days’ (if on a 4-on-4-off pattern) annual leave (inclusive of 8 bank holidays), which will increase with service, plus the option to buy up to 5 extra days' holiday

**What you’ll be doing as Recycling Operative**
Our Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs) are plants where materials like paper, cardboard, cans and bottles are separated and sorted from tipped waste, baled and sent on to be recycled.
It's a varied role: you might go from sweeping one minute to operating an excavator the next, to clearing a blockage that would cause downtime, or loading a shipping container with bales of recovered paper.

**What we're looking for in our Recycling Operative**
- Competent and qualified at operating mobile plant - forklift, loading shovel, 360 excavator.
- A basic understanding of the waste industry, ideally with experience in a recycling processing plant/baler operations.
- Good timekeeping, attendance and teamwork.

**Working hours available**

1) Average working week 40.36 hours on a shift system of 4 days on followed by 4 days off. Your normal shift will be 12 hours, 6am-6pm
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2) Average working week 40.36 hours on a shift system of 4 nights on followed by 4 nights off. Your normal shift will be 12 hours, 6pm-6am
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3) Average 44.75 hours per week on a two-week rotating shift pattern. Week 1: 6am-2.30pm Mon-Fri. Week 2: 2.30pm-12.30am Mon-Thurs, 2.30pm-10pm Fri, plus alternate Sat mornings, 6am-10.30am
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4) Average 44.75 hours per week: Mon-Fri, 7am-4pm, plus alternate Sat mornings, 6am-10.30am

**Grow with Grundon**
Grundon is a leading, long-established and award-winning waste management, environmental and quarrying company that develops and invests in the people that work for us. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our success story as Recycling Operative and strengthen our team. Click apply. No agencies please.