ROLE TITLE: HGV Driver / Team Leader
GRADE: £14.17 - £17.71
HOURS: 37 Per Week
WORK PATTERN: Monday to Thursday 7am to 3pm, Friday 7am to 2.30pm including bank holidays.
LOCATION: Abergavenny or Caldicot - which may change in the future if the service location needs to relocate.
Acorn by Synergie is curretnly looking to recruit a HGV Driver to work for our client based in Abergavenny and Caldicot. This may change in the future if the service location needs to relocate.
Responsibilities
- Drive Refuse Collection Vehicles or other vehicles for the collection of recycling and waste in a professional manner.
Recycling and waste collections include:
- Food waste
- Garden waste
- Residual waste (including hygiene)
- Dry recycling e.g. paper, glass
- Trade waste
Ensure all scheduled collections are completed taking note of assisted collections and extra allocations.
Hold a current LGV licence, tacho card and ensure your CPC is kept up to date.
Act as Team Leader working constructively and effectively as part of the Recycling and Waste collections team. Ensure the crews are undertaking collections in a safe and efficient manner; ensuring that all relevant PPE is worn, that receptacles are placed back as per procedures, any spillages cleaned up, and that all recycling is monitored for contamination and the correct procedures are followed.
- Carry out your role in a polite, courteous and professional manner and ensure that collection crews are doing the same.
- Promote an inclusive and open culture that encapsulates the core MCC principles of teamwork, openness, fairness, flexibility and kindness.
- Carry out daily safety checks of the vehicle, ensuring that any defects are recorded and reported to your supervisor immediately.
- Ensure that the Vehicle, yourself, the crew and their operations are in accordance with the relevant aspects of Health and Safety legislation/policies and that safe working practices are followed: e.g. route risk assessments taken into account, reversing assistants used, PPE compliance.
- Ensure the route risks assessments are kept up to date and liaise with the Supervisor and other WSS colleagues for any changes that need to be made e.g. new hazards.
- Report all accidents, incidents and near misses in a timely fashion to your Area or Deputy Supervisor.
- To be directly responsible for the cleanliness of the vehicle and to ensure vehicles are fuelled at the end of the day, (where possible vehicles should be fuelled in Raglan Depot or Caldicot Depot and only in emergencies should Services be used to fuel vehicles).
- To ensure that all required documentation is completed timely and accurately.
- Act as the safeguarding lead for your team and report any concerns to your line Manager immediately.
- Ensure all technology issued is used as per guidelines and is stored, maintained suitably, and any defects/issues reported in a timely manner.
- There may be occasions when you will be required to carry out duties other than driving e.g. loading, litter collection etc.
- Occasionally work outside normal working hours
Acorn by Synergie acts as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers.
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