- Your main responsibility will be to drive vehicles up to and including HGV's in compliance with legal obligations and expectations for driver behaviour. The main vehicles you will drive will be refuse vehicles or mechanical sweepers.
- You will work on your own or part of a team performing other cleansing duties or collecting refuse and trade waste from households and businesses. You will also collect and deliver skips.
- You must ensure the correct use of lifting equipment and disposal arrangements. You will provide instructions to others on work practices, to comply with expected standards for performance and health and safety.
- You will need to follow works schedules and interpret maps or management information, to support collection schedule arrangements. For example, ensuring routes are followed or households that require assisted support receive this or to consider if skips should be emptied.
- You will need to complete records, tachographs and use technologies such as in-cab to capture data, report variations or areas of concern.
- Contribute to the performance management of staff, including training, instruction and supervision, providing feedback and challenge where necessary.
- You will identify problems about waste, driving conditions or operational matters so that appropriate action can be taken.
- Ensure driver records, timesheets, and other information systems such as In-Cab are correctly maintained in a timely manner.
- In conjunction with Chargehands and Team Leaders you will make variations to collection arrangements and the deployment of staff to support service delivery.
- You will also undertake duties of a refuse loader or other cleansing duties as required. Assist in collecting waste, operating lifting equipment, removing, loading waste and provision of liners. Assist in stickering and provision of information to the public on refuse collection arrangements.
- Check and maintain vehicles and undertake driver checks and clean vehicles, (as far as expected). Report any accidents, faults or repair needs promptly.
- Ensure arrangements for security are followed.
- Comply with procedures, risk assessment and operator's guidance.
- Ensure feedback is provided on issues regarding other cleansing or refuse collection arrangements and staff performance.
- Work with other supervisors to support service delivery.
- Ensuring a positive image is maintained.
- Contribute to resolving operational matters., Provide feedback where problems are identified so that appropriate action can be taken.
- Effectively communicate on service delivery matters.