Refuse & Recycling Chargehand

Serco's Environmental Services provide a complete waste and recycling service on behalf of the residents in the local community. With a professional, dedicated and friendly team of Refuse and Recycling workers, we ensure that streets, homes and businesses are kept clean, safe and tidy whilst providing the very best levels of customer service to all members of the community that we serve. And right now, we have an opportunity for a like-minded individual to join our team of essential key workers and help us make a positive difference to the environment we all live and work in. You will support supervisors by directly overseeing and organising refuse and cleaning operations as a chargehand. As part of this you'll:

• Issue work instructions to operational staff and monitoring staff performance, reporting all under performance and non-compliance
• Organise staff working rotas and arrange holiday and sickness cover
• Drive of LGV's
• Be required to be on an out of hours rota
• Need to occasionally cover Supervisor holiday and sickness and any other duties as required.
  
  You will hold an HGV licence or be willing to undertake training to obtain your HGV licence.
You will have good organisational and people management skills. A supervisory / management qualification or training is desirable, but not essential. Experience within the waste industry is a must. You will be confident with using computers, Microsoft excel and completing spreadsheets.

Why Serco Meaningful and vital work: The nature of our business means you will do interesting work that matters - delivering essential services that touch people's lives A world of opportunity: Our diverse UK-wide operations offer unrivalled opportunities to learn and develop. You'll be able to broaden your experience and apply your skills in new ways. Great people: We are a motivated team who will encourage you and help you to succeed. You'll have the resources you need to do your job in a diverse and supportive environment., About Serco At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone. By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks - SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

What we offer
• The opportunity to make a real difference to the quality of life in our communities
• A role as a company ambassador
• Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Serco discounts which include cinema, merlin entertainment and online shopping discounts, cycle to work scheme and discounts on mobile phone plans and leisure centre memberships.
• Interesting, varied and enjoyable work
• A company that recognises your contribution