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A local government council is looking for a Collections Driver Team Leader in Newcastle-under-Lyme. This permanent role involves leading a team of drivers, ensuring efficient waste collection, and maintaining health and safety standards. Candidates must possess a valid HGV Class 2 license and enjoy competitive benefits, including training and development opportunities. The role offers a well-balanced work life with early finishes.
Job opportunity: Collections Driver Team Leader
Vacancy reference: ECR000444/445
Salary: Grade 6 - £28,598 to £31,022 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week.
Contract: Permanent
Location: Kutton Lane Depot, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Our team delivers high quality services, with a strong customer service ethos and a positive culture that promotes the wellbeing and health and safety of our people.
As a professional driver team leader you will lead a team of up to two crew members. You’ll have a strong team ethos motivating your own team as well as working closely with other team leaders and crews to ensure efficient service completion.
Day to day you’ll be responsible for the completion of collection rounds and team health and safety, providing feedback relating to collections and any issues encountered, using the in-cab device and assisting with bin loading.
You’ll have excellent customer service skills dealing with our residents in a polite and professional manner and will be able to explain our services confidently.
We’ll pay for your ongoing CPC and training which will all be done during the working day.
You'll have a sound health and safety knowledge of the industry, and will ensure that safe systems of work and incident reporting procedures are always followed.
If you're looking for an improvement to your work life balance, look no further. Here our drivers may start early but they also finish early (usually 2pm), giving you time to spend with family and friends or enjoying your favourite activities.
Must be able to work weekends and Bank Holidays as required.
You will have a current valid HGV Class 2/LGV C and current CPC card. Ideally, you’ll have experience of stop-start HGV driving and manoeuvring in residential areas, have worked on collection services before and used in cab technology such as Bartec Collective.
We know that services collecting waste from residents and businesses are changing, and that providing ‘Green Skills’ for our people is a future investment.
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a borough with big ambitions. We’ve already started our transformation, however, we still need to find better ways of doing things because we are determined to do the very best we can for our communities.
If our vision is to be the best, then we need the best people working for us. Our people are at the heart of what we do and have the freedom to innovate, grow and develop. We recruit people who share our vision and values; people who have the drive to deliver our ambitious Council plan.
We reward our people with a competitive range of benefits including: access to the local government pension scheme, minimum 24 days annual leave plus 5 extra days after 5 years' service, flexible working options and family friendly policies, local and national high street discounts, free car parking, wellbeing support including £12.50 per month Jubilee2 membership, green travel scheme including cycle to work and electric car salary sacrifice, free employee 24 hour employee assistance and counselling services, flu vaccination service and health checks plus development and training opportunities.
Please contact Connie Copeland, Collections Manager, if you would like to discuss this opportunity further.
Closing date: 5pm on Thursday 16 October 2025
Should we receive a large number of applications, then this post could close sooner than the date stated.
Shortlisted applicants will be contacted within two weeks of the closing date.
Interview date: Thursday 23 October 2025