Recycling Centre Supervisor

Biffa Waste Services; Lochgilphead; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading waste management company is seeking an HWRC Supervisor in Lochgilphead, Scotland. You will lead a small team to provide a safe and high-quality customer experience at the Household Waste Recycling Centre. This role involves supervising site operations, maintaining health and safety standards, and delivering excellent service. Ideal candidates should have a background in customer service and safety compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering friendly, quality services to customers.
• Ability to work effectively in a diverse operations team.
• Experience in performing daily maintenance duties.
• High standards of work output.
• Ability to build strong relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead and ensure safety at the Household Waste Recycling Centre.
• Assist site users in segregating materials.
• Carry out environmental inspections.
• Operate HWRC and support weighbridge operations.
• Comply with health, safety, and environmental standards.

Skills

Customer service

Team collaboration

Health and safety compliance

Maintenance skills

Job description

HWRC Supervisor - Lingerton, Lochgilphead, Argyll & Bute

10 on 4 off shift pattern

£27,331.20 per annum

As HWRC Supervisor you will lead work at the Household Waste Recycling Centre to ensure our visitors to site each have a quality and safe experience. You will ensure and maintain a high level of Health & Safety compliance at all times and maximise best use of resources on site to acheive high levels of recycling and diversion.

Safety is at the forefront of eveything we do here at Renewi. Within this role you’ll be fully engaged in our safety culture, and will be sure to raise close calls and in doing so reporting all incidents as per the incident reporting systems, allowing us to improve daily and protect fellow workers in the Business.

Leading a small team of HWRC Operatives you will be focused on providing the customers who attend our site a quality and safe experience. No two days are the same at our HWRC’s, this role is varied and will include undertaking general site work such as; housekeeping, maintenance of skips and containers, paper picking and generally keeping the site safe and tidy.

Some of your key responsibilities:

• Assist site users in segregating materials in line with the Site Working Plan
• Carry out Environmental inspections and assist in closing out corrective actions.
• Operation of HWRC on a daily basis and providing support to the weighbridge for incoming and outgoing transactions during busy periods or periods of staff leave.
• Follow all risk assessments and safe operating procedure that are relevant to the post
• Comply with and actively participate in company standards, procedures, environmental and quality systems.
• Provide similar support at other sites within the region as required.
• Assist Technical Assistant with testing and monitoring associated with landfill compliance.

Essential criteria for the role:

• Thrive in delivering friendly, safe and quality experiences to all customers
• Ability to work productively with a diverse operations team
• Experience in carrying out daily maintenance duties and minor repairs
• Demands high standards of themselves and others and is able to translate this into high quality, high pace output
• Ability to build and maintain strong, cohesive relationships at all levels
• Basic understanding of health, safety and environmental compliance

Biffa – we’re changing the way people think about waste

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,000+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull.

We believe different ideas, perspective and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment which is why you’ll find us championing diversity and equality at every turn.