Process Technician

Role: Process Technician (ex- Military preferred)

Location: Blackburn Meadows, Sheffield

Salary: £Competitive

Job Type: Permanent

No of vacancies: 2

Start Date: ASAP

THE COMPANY

One of the leading waste management services companies in the UK, recycling and treating millions of tonnes of household, commercial and industrial waste.

Our client's core business centres on collection, resource recovery and renewable energy providing services for local authorities and commercial customers. To make our skills and expertise easily accessible to our customers, our business is grouped into five core services:

• Municipal services - household waste collection, street cleansing, parks and gardens maintenance.

• Business waste solutions -waste collection and recycling services for small and large companies.

• Recycling - material recycling facilities, household waste recycling centres.

• Green energy -recovery of energy from waste.

• Waste Processing -industrial waste treatment, hazardous wastes and landfill disposal.

They operate over 200 facilities in England, Scotland and Wales and employ around 2,500 employees. We recycle 1.2 million tonnes of waste each year.

THE ROLE

To work within the Waste Treatment Division (WTD) at predominately the Blackburn Meadow site in Sheffield in the receipt and processing of industrial wastes.

Key Responsibilities

• Movement of wastes, including loading and unloading vehicles, using forklift trucks, loading shovel, 360 excavator or telehandler
• Operation of process plant including shredders, mixers, conveyors and pumps
• Routine maintenance and inspection of mobile and process plant e.g. refuelling, topping up oils and greases
• Undertake offsite collection of wastes either alone or as support to other individuals
• Other general duties which may involve some manual handling

Qualifications and Experience (preferred)

• Experience of using mobile plant ideally to an nationally recognised standard
• Experience within the waste or chemical industry where safety is a high priority
• Full driving licence and ideally licenced to drive 7.5T vehicle
• Ideally Driver CPC and ADR trained

Personal Qualities

• Be able to work both as part of a small team under supervision and work alone, including self-managing the workload
• Have flexible attitude to work and available to work overtime at short notice
• Be comfortable in working in the open air al times of the year in what may be a dirty environment
• Be able to problem-solve using own initiative

Other Information

Location - Based at Blackburn Meadows, Sheffield but may spend time at other locations in the UK

Ref: 13254_1515589703 | Published: 10th Jan 2018