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Mobile Plant Operative
Salary: £36,317 per annum , plus Veolia benefits
Hours: 4 Days on , 2 days off Rota
Monday - Friday 7am - 6:30pm
Saturday: 7am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 4:30pm
Location: Thamesmead, SE28 0AB
When you see the world as we do, you see the chance to help the world take better care of its resources and help it become a better place for everyone.
Whether you’re looking to overhaul the industry, or just do a good day’s work, we know that everyone here at Veolia can help us work alongside our communities, look after the environment, and contribute to our inclusive culture.
What we can offer you;
- 20 days of annual leave
- Access to our people’s pension scheme
- Free physiotherapy service
- Discounts on everything from groceries to well known retailers
- Access to a range of resources to support your physical, mental and financial health; so you can lean on us whenever you need to
- Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential
- 24 hour access to a virtual GP, 365 days a year, for you and family members in your household
What you'll be doing;
Operating the front loading shovel and 360-degree wheeled materials handler to move, load and transport waste safely and competently.
Operate the site weighbridge to weigh in/out approved vehicles inline with company and contractual requirements.
Manage weighbridge data inline with contractual requirements.
Complying with current Health and Safety legislation, site licence regulations, agreed Codes of Practice and any other statutory and legal requirements.
Be responsible for traffic management of customer vehicles and other mobile plant movements.
Routine maintenance of the site mobile plant, weighbridge, and general site condition.
Keeping the site in a reasonably clean and tidy condition at all times by undertaking litter-picking duties,sweeping etc.
Completing related daily paperwork to the required standards.
Providing cover at other waste transfer stations when required.
What we're looking for;
Essential:
Trained and certified to operate plant equipment - Loading Shovel and 360 Handler licences
Ability to communicate effectively within a team and with the general public
Work on own initiative as well as part of a team
Reliable, punctual and customer orientated
Able to follow work instructions from the site supervisor/manager
Computer literate
Desirable:
Trained and certified to operate plant equipment – Telehandler, FLT, Loading Shovel
Experience with RoRo or skips.
Previous experience within a similar role
What’s next?
Apply today, so we can make a difference for generations to come.
We're proud to have been named as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work for three consecutive years in 2023, 2024 and 2025. This consistent recognition reflects our commitment to our people, demonstrating that Veolia is not just transforming the environment, we're also transforming what it means to have a rewarding, purposeful career.
We're dedicated to supporting you throughout your application journey, offering adjustments where reasonable and appropriate. As a proud Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who opt-in to the Disability Confident scheme, and meet the minimum criteria for our roles.
We're also committed to ensuring that all applicants and colleagues receive fair treatment without discrimination on any grounds, aiming to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
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What We Do
Veolia UK provides solutions for ecological transformation. We are a company of almost 14,000 employees, although we prefer to think of ourselves as “resourcers”. Every day across the country our “resourcers” design and deploy useful and concrete solutions, which help our customers fight against climate change, prevent pollution of our water and create a circular economy where nothing goes to waste.
Every year, we serve around 1.8 million people through our municipal wastewater contracts. We complete over 400 million waste collections across our Local Authority contracts, serving over 3 million residential properties; and we treat over 1.5 million tonnes of commercial and industrial waste from our 85,000 private customers. We also produce over 560 MWe of renewable and low carbon electricity, to power over 1.3 million homes.
Veolia UK is an exciting and innovative place to work, but don't just take our word for it - we were named as one of the top 10 'Very Big Organisations' to work for in The Sunday Times' Best Places to Work 2024. We're resourcing the world through our purpose of ecological transformation, and we're doing this by working together to constantly progress. We are reinventing the way things work to reduce our environmental impact and increase efficiency, whether in the reuse of wastewater or the recovery of waste, such as plastics. At the same time, we anticipate the needs of tomorrow with innovative solutions that will decarbonise our energy and heating demands. We do this through the development of microgrids and energy management through our Hubgrade solution, which optimises the management of resources using digital and artificial intelligence.
We are driven by optimism and passion, not to see the world as it is, but how it should be; and we are tenacious in our efforts to achieve our goals.
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