Refuse and Recycling Team Leader (HGV Refuse driver)

Wychavon-and-Malvern-Hills-District-Council; Malvern Hills; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent pension scheme

Generous annual leave

Training and development opportunities

Discounted gym and swim membership

Health and wellbeing support

Job summary

Wychavon and Malvern Hills District Council is seeking a Refuse and Recycling Team Leader (HGV Refuse Driver) to supervise a collection team in Malvern. The role involves leading operations, managing resources, and ensuring safe, efficient refuse and recycling services in line with Council standards.

The successful candidate will have a valid EU C licence, strong health and safety understanding, and experience in supervising staff, with excellent communication and record-keeping skills.

Qualifications

• Understand Health and Safety legislation and best practice.
• Full, valid EU driving licence (category C).
• Educated in manual handling.
• Flexibility to work additional hours to ensure service delivery.
• Understanding of refuse/recycling collection methods.
• Experience driving class C vehicles.
• Good oral and written communication; ability to produce clear records.
• Ability to maintain high standards of service delivery and health/safety compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise staff to achieve high levels of performance and productivity.
• Make day-to-day operational decisions to ensure delivery requirements are met.
• Liaise with team members and members of the public.
• Ensure staff carry out duties in line with policies and safe working methods.

Skills

Health and Safety legislation

EU driving licence (C)

Manual handling

Flexible hours

Refuse/recycling methods

Experience driving class C

Communication skills

Record keeping / ICT

Education

Educated in manual handling

Job description

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Refuse and Recycling Team Leader (HGV Refuse driver)

Job Reference WMHDC/TP/146/425

Number of Positions:

3

Contract Type:

Permanent

Working Hours:

80 hours per fortnight

Location:

Malvern

Closing Date:

20/09/2026

Job Type:

Fleet waste and recycling

Sector:

Local Councils

Business Unit:

Job Introduction

Refuse & Recycling Team Leader (HGV Refuse Driver)

80 hours per fortnight - Permanent post

About the team

We are seeking experienced team leaders to supervise a collection team and be responsible for allocated vehicles and other resources to ensure safe, efficient and customer focused delivery of recycling and refuse collection services in accordance with the Council's operational and service delivery standards,

About the role

The roles includes the requirement to lead and supervise staff to achieve high levels of performance and productivity. This requires the candidates to possess good oral and written skills and the ability to make reliable, sound, balanced and consistent judgements.

You will be making day to day operational decisions to ensure that the Council's operational and service delivery requirements are achieved. The candidates will effectively liaise with team members and members of the general public.

You will be responsible for ensuring team members carry out their duties in accordance with the Council's policies and procedures and operate to agreed methods of working, including safe systems of work set out in the Council's health and safety policies and procedures.

About you

The successful candidate will have:

• Understanding of Health and Safety legislation and best practice
• Full, valid EU driving licence (category C)
• Educated in manual handling
• Flexibility to work additional hours, as required, to ensure effective and efficient service delivery
• Understanding of refuse/recycling methods of collection and practice
• Relevant experience of driving class C vehicles
• Good oral and written communication skills including the ability to produce clear and precise records
• Ability to maintain high standards of service delivery and compliance with operational requirements, in particular health and safety requirements

Skills and Experience

Skills and Experience we are looking for are:

• Relevant experience of working with the public and delivering high levels of customer satisfaction in a face to face role
• Experience of supervising or managing staff and dealing effectively with situations involving conflict with others
• Experience of making routine service decisions in accordance with established procedures
• Recording of information for processing including using ICT solutions.
• Experience of collecting, collating and processing information
• Good oral and written communication skills including the ability to produce clear and precise records
• The ability to lead and supervise a team to achieve high levels of performance and productivity
• The ability to plan work and manage delivery to meet deadlines and quality criteria
• Ability to make reliable, sound, balanced and consistent judgements
• Ability to maintain high standards of service delivery and compliance with operational requirements, in particular health and safety requirements

What we can offer

Our staff are at the heart of what we do and are key to ensuring we deliver Our Council Plan (attached) to make a positive difference to our communities, our economy and our environment. We are always looking to recruit, develop and retain the very best talent we can find. So, as well as a rewarding career, we offer a range of attractive benefits, such as:

• Excellent pension scheme with employer contributions
• Generous annual leave entitlement with options to purchase additional annual leave
• Committed training programme and development opportunities
• Discounted Gym and swim membership
• Health and Wellbeing support and a Free Employee Assistance scheme including access to counselling services
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Discounts with a range of companies including EE and the Kaarp discount scheme.

Please note that this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date if there is a high volume of applications

Interview dates: Tuesday 29 September 2026 and Wednesday 30 September 2026