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, willing to work outdoors and happy with a rotating shift pattern, how about joining a committed team as permanent **Recycling Operative** at Grundon's busy **recycling facility at Colnbrook, near Heathrow**? **Starting pay is from £656 per week (including shift allowance)**, depending on your 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 days’ 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**: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

**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. Interested in joining us as Recycling Operative and strengthening our team? Click apply. No agencies please.