Loader - Ferndown

Are you ready to help keep our community clean and green? You'll be on the move daily, making sure waste and recycling get collected, sorted, and properly managed.
- you’ll join a friendly team, picking up household, business, and other types of waste and recycling from different spots.
- you’ll help sort out recycling materials; it's like helping the planet bit by bit.
- you’ll talk to people in a nice and professional way. If they have questions or something's bothering them, you're there to help sort it out.
- you’ll stay safe and keep others safe too. We follow health and safety rules very seriously, and you'll also help our drivers make sure the vehicle is moved safely.

About you:

- you’re someone who loves working outdoors and doesn't mind getting their hands dirty.
- you should be comfortable with lifting and moving things
- it would be great if you like talking to people and helping to solve problems
- don't worry if you haven't done this before, as long as you're ready to learn and work as part of a team

It can be hard work and it can be messy, but if you’re looking for a good work-life balance, you like being outdoors, and you would like a job that is sure to keep you fit, then why not consider working with us?

You will work 37 hours per week on a rota basis to cover early mornings, some weekends, and bank holidays. The opportunity to work overtime is available.

We offer a range of benefits including:

- training and development opportunities, particularly if you’d like to progress to being trained as an HGV driver
- generous holiday entitlement: 27 days of holiday each year plus bank holidays, rising to 32 days after 5 years' service, with the option to buy additional leave
- time and half of basic pay for any bank holiday working
- Local Government Pension scheme, including immediate life cover
- employee well-being service
- free health checks

The post holder will be responsible for the PPE as supplied and will assist with the routine checks and cleaning of vehicles.

This is an outdoor-based role. Exposure to all weather conditions, traffic conditions, and hazards connected to exposure to dirt, dust, and noise. Will involve the handling of chemicals and contact with unknown substances and materials. Contact with the public with a risk of challenge or abusive behaviour.

The post requires a lot of walking, standing, bending, and lifting throughout the day.

Our behaviours Dorset Council has developed and embedded a set of behaviours that will form part of everything you do, and you will need to be able to demonstrate them through the way you work, regardless of your role or grade within the organisation.