Trade Waste Assistant

The Lancaster City Council Trade waste collection team has the responsibility for delivering a financially competitive, proactive and customer focused residual waste and recycling collection service for business in the wider Lancaster region. To build and develop on current customer base the team is now looking for a motivated individual to add to our current workforce. You will work alongside the members of the wider Waste and Recycling team to ensure service delivery to our customers within the district, ensuring that KPI targets are met, and a high standard of work is achieved., At Lancaster City Council we aim to have a diverse workforce that is representative of the district that we serve, and provide a working environment where each employee feels able to bring their whole self to work. We welcome applications from all sections of our community and provide several supportive and inclusive workplace networks and safe spaces for employees to feel connected. Our workplace wellbeing strategy drives our commitment to staff wellbeing initiatives and ensuring that our organisation is a great place to work for all.

The successful candidate must demonstrate good working skills and techniques with an attention to detail, the ability to work on your own initiative and with minimum supervision but able to be part of the wider team. You will need to have good computer and communication skills and will be expected to manage your own time management and workload.

The role involves a lot of customer contact and therefore a confident but friendly phone manner is expected along with positive solutions to customer queries., You will identify with our organisational values of Pride, Ownership, Working Together and Ambition., Disability Confident
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The post is permanent. The hours of work for this position are 37 hours per week, working Monday to Friday and you will be based at White Lund Depot, Morecambe.

The Council currently operates an excellent Flexible Working Hours Scheme which applies to this post. Subject to the needs of this business, this may allow employees to work between the hours of 6:00am-10:30pm., Lancaster is a great place to work, as well as being part of something special you will also benefit from:

Generous annual leave allowance
Local Government Pension Scheme
A range of employee benefits including discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, the opportunity to purchase extra time off, as well as discounts on days out, activities and retail.

Lancaster City Council has unanimously declared a climate emergency and will therefore work towards reducing carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030. As part of this role, you will be expected to participate and work towards reducing both carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change.