Area ELV Lead

EMR; Northampton; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay rates

Bonus scheme

25 days annual leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Life assurance and critical illness

Wellbeing scheme with GP access

24/7 wellbeing advice

Financial support (loans, savings, pay

Education support

Discounts on shopping and utilities

Cycle to work scheme

Ongoing training and development

Job summary

EMR is seeking an Area ELV Lead in the UK to drive end-of-life vehicle recycling initiatives across regional sites. You will lead teams, promote safe, sustainable and efficient practices, and mentor individuals to grow within the ELV operation.

You will work alongside the ELV Area Manager to transform regional performance, focusing on maximizing material recovery, reuse and recycling while delivering measurable carbon savings.

Qualifications

• 3.5mt forklift license is essential.
• Proven leadership and ability to drive teams to achieve targets (ELV leaderboard).
• Strong safety mindset and commitment to safe operations.
• Strong mechanical and mathematical aptitude.

Responsibilities

• Lead ELV teams across multiple sites within your region.
• Set and communicate best-practice safety, sustainability and efficiency procedures.
• Develop individuals to match learning styles and career goals.
• Collaborate with ELV Area Manager to optimise regional operations and carbon savings.
• Identify opportunities to maximise recycling, reuse and repurposing, reducing waste.

Skills

Forklift license

Leadership

Safety excellence

Problem solving

Mechanical aptitude

Job description

What we offer:

Everything must recycle. It’s what we stand for.

Together we turn today’s materials into tomorrow’s possibilities. Today’s old into tomorrow’s new. Used to useful. Waste into something worthwhile. You could be at the centre of change that will be felt for generations to come, keeping valuable resources in circulation and helping to make circular materials the standard for global industry.

Work this important deserves proper pay and proper benefits.

• Competitive pay rates and a bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus option to buy or sell
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Employee support - including life assurance and critical illness pay
• Wellbeing scheme - giving colleagues and dependents unlimited access to GPs and counselling, and cash back on health and wellbeing
• 24/7 anonymous health and wellbeing advice
• Financial support - including affordable loans, savings plans, advanced earned pay and education
• Money off shopping, utilities, entertainment and more
• Cycle 2 work scheme
• Get stuck in but never get stuck – ongoing training and development plans tailored to how you want to progress

Applying to a new job is a big decision – even when the company you’re applying to has been voted a Great Place to Work for four years running and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Manufacturing, Production and Transportation.

#INDHP

About our opportunity

The automotive industry is going through a period of huge change, as we all continue along the road to net‑zero and electric vehicles replace combustion engines.

Our ELV teams are vital to ensuring we recover, recycle, reuse and repurpose as many of the materials as possible from the inevitable boom of end‑of‑life combustion engine cars coming our way, putting them back into the supply chain so they can become the electric vehicles of the future – saving carbon, stopping the need for mining and protecting our planet.

As Area ELV Lead at EMR, you’ll be vital in supporting them as they do this.

What you will be doing

Your team will be changing the world from multiple sites across your region – and they’ll all need your support.

While they’re doing the heavy lifting, you’ll be looking at best‑practice procedures for safety, sustainability and efficiency – communicating these to your colleagues and giving them the tools they need to follow them. You’ll be developing each person in a way that suits their learning style and goals, and working side‑by‑side with the ELV Area Manager to transform your region into the most effective ELV recycling operation possible.

And, sometimes, you’ll need to get stuck in and get some oil under your fingernails, too. If you know your way around an engine, understanding what each component is made from and what that could be transformed into, you can lead your teams in identifying opportunities to save the most possible carbon through reuse and repurposing as well as recycling.

Together, we’ll solve tomorrow’s challenges and work towards a circular economy for automotive, leaving an impact that will be felt for generations to come.

About you

We don’t believe in shutting doors on potential, so we don’t ask over the odds for qualifications or experience. We can teach you everything you need to know. What we can’t teach is:

• The competitive spirit that will drive your teams to want to top the EMR ELV leader board every month
• Outside‑the‑box problem solving
• Mechanical and mathematical competence
• Safety excellence – for you and your teams

If you have these qualities, and a 3.5mt Forklift license, you’re already well on your way to being an incredible Area ELV Lead. We’ll happily fill in the gaps by developing your knowledge, skills and expertise on the job. And we won’t stop training you once you’ve reached peak Area Lead status, because when you work for a global leader in sustainable materials, there is no limit to your career progression.

Who we are:

The products we’ll all need tomorrow depend on us making the most of today’s end‑of‑life metals, plastics and other materials.

Take a car at the end of its life - most people just see a…car at the end of its life.

We see steel, aluminium, copper, plastics, rubber, glass, parts, fluids, costs, risks, markets and – most importantly - possibilities.

Now, multiply that by thousands of cars – we recover, reuse and recycle all those valuable materials and put them back to work as low‑carbon materials for manufacturing, infrastructure, energy and transport.

And that’s just one thing we recycle. Add buildings, factories, ships, railways and industrial equipment. That’s all our hard work – the gritty, practical, commercial, difficult work our 4,000 global colleagues do every day.

Anything from a can to an aircraft carrier can become anything from a bicycle to a building and, at the same time, we help to avoid 19 million tonnes of carbon and 10 million tonnes of waste to landfill, protecting nature, resources and the next generation’s future.

Which is all well and good for us to say, but this is what the real people behind the really hard work think:

"The people who work here are from varied backgrounds and have a variety of beliefs, all of which are accepted and respected."

"I’m encouraged to keep a healthy work‑life balance so that I can be performing at my best."

"I’ve been supported every step of the way in my career progression."

‘‘EMR offers a fantastic and inclusive environment; collaboration across the whole business, humility and hard work."

Four years as a certified Great Place To Work is no small feat. Oh, and don’t forget one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Manufacturing, Production and Transportation. That’s pretty good too.

But we can do better. We’re aiming for a place in the top 60 companies in the UK – not for the accolade but for the improvement. A journey you should probably join us for.

If you want to be part of something bigger than yourself, have a role that really makes a difference and work with likeminded people towards the same purpose, this is the role for you.

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