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Recycling Attendant – Ref: 1168

Bryn Lane | £ Competitive + Excellent Benefits

Waste Recycling Group has a crucial role for a Recycling Attendant to promote effective public recycling initiatives. Working on a public waste recycling site in in Byrn Lane, you will provide a helpful, courteous and professional service to the public to ensure proper waste disposal and recycling processes.

Your main responsibilities as a Recycling Attendant will involve:

  • Supervising the disposal of household waste and ensuring that material is deposited in the correct containers
  • Controlling and directing the flow of traffic within the Centre to ensure the safety of the public

 Ideally, your skills and qualifications as Recycling Attendant will include:

  • An ability to work with people at all levels from inside and outside of the organisation
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • A flexible approach and team player attitude

Waste Recycling Group:

Waste Recycling Group is one of the leading waste management services companies in the UK specialising in landfill disposal, energy recovery, waste treatment, reception and recycling.

Each year we receive, recycle and dispose of 13 million tonnes of household, commercial and industrial waste. We also generate energy from waste, thereby contributing significantly to the Government's efforts to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

Waste Recycling Group is owned by the Spanish construction and services group, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), by far the leader in the Spanish urban sanitation market.

To apply for this role, please email your CV to: humanresources@wrg.co.uk

Recycling Attendant – Ref: 1169

Plas Madoc | £ Competitive + Excellent Benefits

Waste Recycling Group has a crucial role for a Recycling Attendant to promote effective public recycling initiatives. Working on a public waste recycling site in in Plas Madoc, you will provide a helpful, courteous and professional service to the public to ensure proper waste disposal and recycling processes.

Your main responsibilities as a Recycling Attendant will involve:

  • Supervising the disposal of household waste and ensuring that material is deposited in the correct containers
  • Controlling and directing the flow of traffic within the Centre to ensure the safety of the public

 Ideally, your skills and qualifications as Recycling Attendant will include:

  • An ability to work with people at all levels from inside and outside of the organisation
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • A flexible approach and team player attitude

Waste Recycling Group:

Waste Recycling Group is one of the leading waste management services companies in the UK specialising in landfill disposal, energy recovery, waste treatment, reception and recycling.

Each year we receive, recycle and dispose of 13 million tonnes of household, commercial and industrial waste. We also generate energy from waste, thereby contributing significantly to the Government's efforts to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

Waste Recycling Group is owned by the Spanish construction and services group, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), by far the leader in the Spanish urban sanitation market.

To apply for this role, please email your CV to: humanresources@wrg.co.uk

Administrator / Coordinator – Ref: 2030

Barrow in Furness | £ Competitive + Excellent Benefits

A varied and rewarding administrative role with Waste Recycling Group, as an Administrator / Coordinator you will provide organised and proactive administrative and secretarial support to our team on-site at the Barrow in Furness Transfer Station.

Your main responsibilities as an Administrator / Coordinator will involve:

  • Maintaining and updating waste and database records
  • Dealing with a range of customer queries
  • Monitoring and organising drivers’ work files
  • Basic office administration, such as filing and answering telephone calls
  • Attending training sessions as deemed appropriate by your line manager

 Ideally, your skills and qualifications as an Administrator / Coordinator will include:

  • Strong administration skills
  • Computer literacy, including knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Access
  • Experience of working in a similar role

Waste Recycling Group:

Waste Recycling Group is one of the leading waste management services companies in the UK specialising in landfill disposal, energy recovery, waste treatment, reception and recycling.

Each year we receive, recycle and dispose of 13 million tonnes of household, commercial and industrial waste. We also generate energy from waste, thereby contributing significantly to the Government's efforts to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

Waste Recycling Group is owned by the Spanish construction and services group, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), by far the leader in the Spanish urban sanitation market.

To apply for this role, please email your CV to: humanresources@wrg.co.uk

Traffic Controller – Ref: 2032

Barrow in Furness | £ Competitive + Excellent Benefits

As a Traffic Controller with Waste Recycling Group you will direct on site traffic and map out driver routes in order to maximise vehicle and load efficiency.

Ensuring all company guidelines are adhered to, you will provide an exceptional service to the community while taking environmental and on site health and safety rules into consideration.

Your main responsibilities as Traffic Controller will involve:

  • Assisting the General Manager in managing and coordinating vehicle and driver operations
  • Controlling and coordinating safe and efficient operations of vehicle and container fleets
  • Managing the driver team and day-to-day collection operations
  • Reporting on driver and vehicle availability, customer orders and complaints
  • Reporting vehicle and container fleet defects to the site manager

 Ideally, your skills and qualifications as Traffic Controller will include:

  • PC and administrative skills
  • Previous experience working on-site in a similar role

Waste Recycling Group:

Waste Recycling Group is one of the leading waste management services companies in the UK specialising in landfill disposal, energy recovery, waste treatment, reception and recycling.

Each year we receive, recycle and dispose of 13 million tonnes of household, commercial and industrial waste. We also generate energy from waste, thereby contributing significantly to the Government's efforts to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

Waste Recycling Group is owned by the Spanish construction and services group, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), by far the leader in the Spanish urban sanitation market.

To apply for this role, please email your CV to: humanresources@wrg.co.uk

Administrator – Ref: 2038

Thetford | £ Competitive + Excellent Benefits

Provide admin support to transport, recycling, and operational multiple business units in region and Regional Operations Manager.

Your main responsibilities as Administrator will involve:

  • Administration of transport function, comprising;
    • Input of driver’s (8 no.) returns and performance stats for vehicles,  for recycling business
    • Act as first point of contact for drivers regarding collections rounds etc.
  • Answering the telephone and dealing with customer queries for recycling business.
  • EA returns for the Transfer Stations.
  • Collation and input of recycling figures from Transfer Stations and HWRCs.
  • Collation of regional statistic including H&S and near miss reporting.

 Ideally, your skills and qualifications as Administrator will include:

  • Confident in use of Microsoft Office, especially creating and using excel spreadsheets and Word.  Numerate and familiar with book keeping.
  • Good customer service and communication skills with a confident telephone manner and accurate and sound administration and organisational skills.
  • Transport sector and or waste or similar sector.
  • Customer focused service delivery organisation.
  • Experience of busy office in multi site organisation.

Waste Recycling Group:

Waste Recycling Group is one of the leading waste management services companies in the UK specialising in landfill disposal, energy recovery, waste treatment, reception and recycling.

Each year we receive, recycle and dispose of 13 million tonnes of household, commercial and industrial waste. We also generate energy from waste, thereby contributing significantly to the Government's efforts to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

Waste Recycling Group is owned by the Spanish construction and services group, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), by far the leader in the Spanish urban sanitation market.

To apply for this role, please email your CV to: helen.lilleyman@wrg.co.uk

Recycling and Transport Manager – Ref: 2023

Thetford | £ Competitive + Excellent Benefits

Your main responsibilities as Recycling and Transport Manager will involve:

  • Build and maintain customer relationships and ensure customer service standards are achieved.
  • Manage customer service desk and phones.
  • Manage collection fleet and drivers and ensure that the operation is managed safely, effectively and efficiently, and that the fleet is maintained and remains compliant.
  • Ensure operation complies with relevant legislation, including health and safety.
  • Understand, develop and monitor contracts and relationships with the end markets for the recycled materials.

 Ideally, your skills and qualifications as Recycling and Transport Manager will include:

  • Recycling in local authority or commercial sector
  • CPC Holder
  • Customer focused service delivery
  • Commercial organisation
  • Transport Law, management and logistics

Waste Recycling Group:

Waste Recycling Group is one of the leading waste management services companies in the UK specialising in landfill disposal, energy recovery, waste treatment, reception and recycling.

Each year we receive, recycle and dispose of 13 million tonnes of household, commercial and industrial waste. We also generate energy from waste, thereby contributing significantly to the Government's efforts to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

Waste Recycling Group is owned by the Spanish construction and services group, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), by far the leader in the Spanish urban sanitation market.

To apply for this role, please email your CV to: helen.lilleyman@wrg.co.uk

Graduate Programme – Engineering

£ Competitive + Excellent Benefits

Based out of one of our operational sites, the Graduate programme is centred around skills required to undertake a role within our operational teams, with an additional element to suit a Engineering Graduate.  With lots of travel across the UK, this is an exciting 50-week programme that will see you learning everything there is to know about engineering as it relates to the waste management industry.

It’s no walk in the park and you’ll cram a huge amount of learning into a very short space of time. The outcome, however, will be well worth the effort. Upon completion of the programme, you’ll have the foundations to be able to ultimately take on either Operational Management or Project Management roles within the business, the type of responsibility most graduates only dream of.

During the programme, you’ll be given a weekly diary to enable you to record your learning experiences. Throughout it, you’ll undertake a broad range of assignments to be presented at the end of each stage. The programme is also structured to give an all round appreciation of the company, and of the different departments with which the Engineering function interacts. In your first week, you’ll be given a comprehensive induction that will take you to a range of sites, giving you the opportunity to meet with your programme mentor for the first time, as well as a variety of other influential people within our business.

For eight weeks you’ll undertake a secondment with either one of our contractors or design partners. There’ll be lots of hands on experience on-site, and lots of time developing your knowledge and appreciation of the roles of other functions within the Company. This is required in order to develop a multidiscipline approach which is vital to engineering problem solving.

Throughout your engineering placement you will be given a variety of projects to manage of increasing complexity and responsibility, as your engineering skills and commercial awareness increase throughout the graduate programme. We’ll support you all the way. Your mentor will be there at every stage in the process to ensure you’re getting as much as you can out of the programme. The programme will be tailored to assist you in achieving a Professional Qualification with a relevant Institute (e.g. Chartered Engineer), and furnish you with the skills to take on a role that will set your career in the industry off to the best possible start.

All you’ll need to get started in this rewarding and exciting career is a BEng or MEng in Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Chemical or Environmental Engineering. We would also be interested in hearing from graduates from other related engineering disciplines.

For more information about the Graduate Programme and to apply, please contact Nicola Gullett, HR Adviser, on 01302 303036 or email nicola.gullett@wrg.co.uk

Graduate Programme – Estates

£ Competitive + Excellent Benefits

This is your chance to be involved in a wide range of projects that are not only live, but crucial to the future of our business. Working alongside our Operations, Engineering, Restoration, Environment and other specialist teams, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact as you get on-site and give the programme your all. Based out of one of our operational sites, the Graduate programme is centred around skills required to undertake a role within our operational teams, with an additional element to suit a Estates Graduate. So we welcome graduates from Estates Management backgrounds as well as those who have studied Geography, Environmental Science or similar subject areas.

Graduates from Estates Management and Planning backgrounds

The aim of the programme will be to give you the necessary professional experience to enable you to become RICS or RTPI qualified. We’ll offer a structured programme of work in close liaison with an existing, experienced team member on a range of projects to introduce you to the full range of Estates Management or Planning work within waste management. Where possible, this will also include non-waste work, such as promoting and developing surplus land. Plus, we’ll give you the chance to gain experience of Environmental Permitting. Running for two years, the programme would mean working through the APC process with a designated mentor for RICS candidates. For those studying towards RTPI, it would mean the creation of an auditable work programme to support an application for membership.

Graduates from other disciplines

Following a more general programme (based within our Operational teams), you’ll gain experience of Estates Management, Planning and Environmental Permitting for six to nine months. There’ll be an assessment upon completion and from there we’ll help you to decide on where you want to take your newly developed skills within the business. There may even be the chance to undertake further postgraduate training. For the six to nine month period, you’ll be involved in a range of projects, working alongside experienced members of the team and with a senior member assigned to you as your mentor.

For more information about the Graduate Programme and to apply, please contact Nicola Gullett, HR Adviser, on 01302 303036 or email nicola.gullett@wrg.co.uk

Our 6-week application process