Jobs at Veolia UK

Inspect and manually separate materials on recycling picking lines, operate sorting machinery, maintain site cleanliness, meet output targets, communicate operational information, and follow safety and PPE requirements during rotating shifts.

Supervise grounds maintenance operations, staff performance, training, inspections, vehicle and equipment compliance, and depot activities. Coordinate services with the local authority, represent the company at resident meetings, support health and wellbeing initiatives, and monitor contract work. The role also involves environmental compliance, employee inductions, disciplinary investigations, absence monitoring, and maintaining training records.

The Recycling Operative is responsible for separating materials, hand-picking materials off a conveyor, cleaning duties, and providing cover for other roles as needed. They should possess a positive attitude, teamwork skills, and attention to detail.

Develops and executes UK-wide business development strategy for land remediation and environmental services. Builds relationships with contractors, developers, consultants, site owners, and procurement teams; identifies and converts complex opportunities; manages strategic accounts and pipelines; leads multidisciplinary bids; negotiates profitable contracts; and promotes sustainable remediation, soil treatment, waste management, PFAS, and low-carbon solutions. Requires national travel and extensive stakeholder engagement.

Perform industrial cleaning and site support services, including confined-space tank cleaning, high-pressure water jetting, tankering, emergency response cover, and turnaround project support. The role involves working on COMAH sites across the UK and occasionally in Europe, with flexible hours and periods away from home. Training is provided in breathing apparatus, safety, chemical awareness, RAMS, first aid, and team leading.

Sort recyclable materials on a conveyor to required standards, maintain a clean work area, clean the plant, cover other MRF positions, and operate mobile plant and balers after training. The role works rotating shifts and requires manual handling or operational experience, teamwork, and preferably prior mobile plant experience.

Leads operations of energy recovery, mechanical treatment, and material recovery facilities. Manages teams, production, plant availability, safety, compliance, budgets, P&L, client contracts, stakeholder relationships, audits, and incident reporting. Requires management experience in energy recovery, power generation, or continuous process industries, an engineering degree, financial oversight expertise, strong leadership, and knowledge of health, safety, and environmental compliance.

Receives, sorts, packs, stores, and repacks hazardous and general waste at a transfer station. Operates forklifts, organizes outgoing shipments, performs site checks, maintains housekeeping standards, and uploads shipment information to internal systems. The role is predominantly outdoors and requires compliance with health and safety legislation, site procedures, work instructions, and risk assessments. Training is provided.

Senior Energy Engineer developing and supporting decarbonisation and energy-efficiency projects up to £10 million. Responsibilities include energy modeling, evaluating technologies such as carbon capture, heat pumps and CHP, conducting energy audits, developing financial and bid models, supporting contract negotiations, and improving asset performance across hospitals, industrial facilities and district heating networks.

Provides financial reporting and control leadership for the Hertfordshire region. Responsibilities include preparing monthly management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, budgets, forecasts, long-term plans, capital expenditure reporting, KPI analysis, investment reviews, and contract performance analysis. The role partners with operational management and clients and requires a fully qualified ACCA or CIMA accountant with strong spreadsheet, systems, communication, presentation, and leadership skills.

Operate plant processing equipment, including mixing tanks, pumps, and control room systems; perform waste treatment operations; drive site vehicles such as forklifts, wheeled loading shovels, and rigid bulk tankers after training; assist with plant maintenance; and promote environmental and safety awareness. The role requires a full UK driving licence, plant machinery experience, health and safety knowledge, and previous manual handling experience.

Manages a vehicle workshop, technicians, contractors, fleet compliance, safety, customer service, equipment reliability, maintenance planning, procurement, and operational performance. The role oversees statutory inspections, incident investigations, risk assessments, work instructions, training, budgets, and corrective actions while ensuring asset availability, service quality, and environmental standards.

Supervise workshop operations while repairing and maintaining fleet and third-party vehicles and plant. Perform diagnostics, hydraulic, electrical, pneumatic, MOT preparation, inspections, and roadside repairs. Coordinate technicians, contractors, tire services, job allocation, shift handovers, training, holidays, and depot coverage. Ensure health and safety compliance, accurate documentation, workshop inspections, and technician productivity targets.

Develop persuasive technical proposals for high-value energy-sector tenders exceeding £5 million. The role manages multiple bids, collaborates with technical and operational stakeholders, develops win strategies, maintains proposal quality standards and bid libraries, and mentors proposal writers. It also involves proofreading, research, client debriefs, feedback implementation, deadline management, and continuous improvement of team capabilities and win rates.

Operates a waste facility by covering the weighbridge, booking vehicles, checking paperwork and PPE, issuing tickets, reporting contaminated loads and safety concerns, managing traffic, and assisting with loading bulkers and waste piles. Requires computer literacy, Environmental Permit CMS knowledge, communication skills, teamwork, and the ability to work under pressure. Previous waste experience and yellow plant, forklift, or Scarab training are desirable but training is provided.

Leads financial reporting and control for the South Downs contract, including management accounts, statutory accounts, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, capital expenditure, variance analysis, and contract reconciliations. Manages a team of three finance professionals, partners with operational teams and clients, ensures compliance with financial policies, supports audits and digital transformation projects, and provides strategic financial analysis and business partnering.

Manage and prioritize planned, preventative, corrective, and reactive maintenance through a CMMS. Coordinate work requests, schedules, contractors, and resources while maintaining accurate records and supporting reporting and process improvement. Ensure compliance with health, safety, statutory, regulatory, risk assessment, and Permit to Work requirements. Provide technical feedback to maintenance and operations teams and help optimize assets and processes.

Provide financial reporting and control leadership for the Hampshire region. Responsibilities include monthly management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, budgets, forecasts, statutory accounts, capital expenditure reporting, KPI analysis, investment reviews, audit liaison, and business partnering with operational management and clients.

Lead electrical design development for Veolia’s energy solutions, providing technical guidance across HVAC, BMS, heat networks, heat pumps, fuel cells, steam, CHP, and related systems. Support technical, business development, and operations teams with energy performance proposals and new opportunities across industrial, healthcare, and building services sectors. Develop innovative, commercially attractive solutions and provide client-facing technical optioneering expertise.

Lead end-to-end decommissioning projects, manage budgets, schedules, quality and contractors, ensure SHEQ and regulatory compliance, act as client/HSE contact, support ISO accreditation audits, and provide technical input for tenders.