Refuse & Recycling Bin Technician

ODS; Oxford; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A local waste service provider is looking for a Bin Technician to join their Waste Services team in Oxford. This role involves repairing and delivering bin containers, maintaining inventory, and ensuring excellent customer service. Ideal candidates are self-motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible, committed to maintaining high standards of service and safety. The position requires teamwork and may involve working on public holidays.

Qualifications

• Ability to work with a team to ensure service quality.
• Must be enthusiastic and take personal responsibility.
• Capable of maintaining accurate inventory records.

Responsibilities

• Repair or replace faulty/missing bin containers.
• Deliver bin containers and sacks to customers.
• Drive the vehicle ensuring compliance with health and safety.

Skills

Self-motivated

Excellent customer service

Teamwork

Flexibility

Job description

Operating commercially so that we can reinvest back into essential city services, ODS Group has a great reputation for providing high quality services through some fantastic staff who love working here. If you are keen to develop your career with us, we have exciting opportunities to join our Waste Services team.

As a Bin Technician, you will be working as part of the Waste team to ensure the highest standards of Waste Serviced for domestic and commercial properties, providing excellent customer service and helping us to maximise commercial opportunities.

To do well in the role, you will be someone who can take personal responsibility, will be self-motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible in your approach to the work and, in return, you will be part of a friendly, welcoming, and award‑winning team.

Key attributes and responsibilities

• Work with the team to repair or replace faulty/missing Bin containers and boxes.
• Deliver Bin containers.
• Delivery of commercial and domestic sacks.
• Maintain and be responsible for accurate inventory of sacks and bins stocks.
• Collection of bins and containers.
• Any mess or spillages caused by the operation are cleaned up/removed.
• Drive the vehicle on the round and comply with all organisational and legislative requirements in respect of driving and operating vehicles, particularly with regard to health and safety requirements and record‑keeping. Ensure the vehicle is clean and tidy inside and out, undertake safety inspections daily and take responsibility for the safe manoeuvring of the vehicle on the round and at waste transfer sites/recycling centres, particularly when reversing.
• Ensure regular communication with households and businesses, as directed, by, for example, delivering correspondence and placing advisory stickers and tags on bins.
• Undertake other duties that may be required by the Direct Service management team, in particular to deal with special circumstances such as snow clearance and flood prevention.
• Participate and contribute to an ethos of teamwork and flexibility within the team and assist with the training and support of new and temporary/agency members of the team, ensuring new colleagues undertake safe working methods and are familiar with routes.
• Undertake all duties in accordance with the Direct Services Quality Assurance scheme, work instructions manual, Driver’s Handbook, health and safety requirements and safe working procedures, ensuring fitness to work at all times and reporting promptly any issues that may compromise these standards.
• Undertake work on Public Holidays, weekends and ‘catch-up’ days as necessitated by the needs of the service.