360 Shovel Grab Driver

360 Shovel Grab Driver

Location: Wembley Transfer Station Depot

Pay: OTE £35,000 - £38,000 + Overtime

Shifts: Various

Start Times: Various AM / PM, 45 hours per week.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,000+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull. And it’s why we’re the UK’s No. 1 choice for business waste management.

Help us make a difference as a Mobile Plant Operative based from our Wembley Transfer Station in the area of London.

A quick look at the role.

The Mobile Plant Operative will maintain and operate a mobile plant in a safe and efficient manner while working in a busy landfill operation. This will be both unsupervised and under instruction by the site supervisor or management team.

Why it’s an opportunity not to be waste

• Maintaining the site to ensure the smooth running of the waste infilling operations, including void availability, road maintenance and compliance with the tip management plan.
• Following the site traffic management plan to ensure pedestrian and vehicular segregation is maintained on site.

• Reporting any Health and Safety matters and environmental compliance issues to the site supervisor/manager. Including, but not limited to –

1. Dust Control by ensuring road and tip face are regularly dampened down by plant or fixed systems.
2. Control of mud on site and peripheral roads.
3. Pest control including birds, flies and rodents.
4. Odour control by ensuring control systems on site are working and effective waste management operations at the tipping area.
5. Litter control by usage of fixed and mobile litter netting and screens.

• Reporting any damaged infrastructure which may cause environmental pollution e.g. gas wells.
• Ensuring that site mobile plant is maintained and report defects to ensure that repairs are carried out in a timely manner.
• Completing and maintaining CPCS or equivalent standard training to operate landfill plant.
• Keeping the plant clean at all times and carrying out any manual handling as required.

Here’s what we require:

• CPCS or equivalent mobile plant training certification
• Licensed to drive 360 Grab-Experience of elevated cab work
• Other plant tickets would be helpful.
• Relevant experience in waste or environmental capacity
• Full car driving licence
• Plant related activities
• Ability to carry out essential daily maintenance of site plant.
• Licensed to Drive a Loading Shovel.

And here’s why you’ll love it at Biffa.

• Competitive salary
• Ongoing career development, training and coaching – because if you don’t grow, we don’t grow.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Medical and dental scheme.
• Retail and leisure discounts.
• Holiday and travel discounts.
• Bike to work scheme

Dedicated to diversity.

At Biffa we believe different ideas, perspective and backgrounds are key to developing a creative working environment that delivers real results. It’s why you’ll find us championing diversity and equality at every turn.