Loading Shovel Driver

2 weeks ago

Knaresborough, United Kingdom Thalia Waste Management Full time

We are seeking a dedicated Loading Shovel Driver to join our team at Allerton Waste Recovery Park. The primary role will be to move waste around our tipping hall site, transporting unprocessed household waste. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for operating mobile plant machinery such as front-loading shovels.
- Must have a full and valid driving license
- Must have a Loading Shovel ticket
- This is a temporary role with the opportunity to go permanent
- You will be paid weekly by our temporary agency partner - Hays Recruitment
- £15.55 per hour
- Weekly shift pattern of 6am-2pm / 2pm - 10pm (Monday - Friday)
- Opportunity for Saturday overtime - time and a half
- Address: Allerton Waste Recovery Park, Moor Lane, Knaresborough, HG5 0SD

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Reporting any health and safety hazards or incidents to the Shift Supervisor / Lead Supervisor
- Operating mobile plant
- Vehicle marshalling / controlling the tipping hall operation
- Maintaining clean working conditions in the fuel reception area, tipping hall, and delivery routes
- Ensuring the constant availability of waste to be processed
- Carrying out waste inspections and reporting non-conforming waste
- Loading collection vehicles and static plant

**Skills and Experience**:

- A strong teamwork ethic
- A flexible approach to working
- An ability to work in a changing, fast-paced environment
- Experience in an industry such as waste management, quarrying, cement works, construction, or steel would be advantageous

Our Business
At Thalia Waste Management, we are creating a future to be proud of. We think differently, questioning everything, enabling us to develop progressive waste into energy solutions and services. Being motivated, tackling problems together, inspiring others to take responsibility, making a difference, being ambitious and contributing value.
We operate the best technology available across our four strategic sites in North Yorkshire, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Wight. Our technology includes everything from mechanical and biological treatment, traditional mass-burn energy from waste and material recycling technologies to in-vessel composting, advanced thermal treatment, innovative small-scale energy from waste and anaerobic digestion. In a single year we process 300,000 tonnes of waste that is turned into energy. This generates the same amount of energy as approximately 600 million solar panels. Similarly we recycle circa 95,000 tonnes of waste.
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