Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8 RA
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £24,033 - £24,222 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) (+ Waste Operatives Market Premia)
Working Hours: 1686 annualised hours (to average 37 hours per week)
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 6th July 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC
Do you enjoy working with people and looking after the environment?
Leicestershire County Council is looking to recruit Reuse & Waste Recycling Operatives at its Recycling and Household Waste Sites (RHWS). Candidates must be self-motivated, hard-working, willing to learn and have good customer care skills.
About the Role
Successful candidates will be responsible for identifying, assessing, and charging residents for their chargeable waste, assisting members of the public in the safe disposal of their waste, and delivering a high-quality service under challenging financial times.
Available role(s) are primarily located at the following RHWS:
(Secondary sites – Loughborough RHWS & Melton RHWS)
(Secondary sites – Lount RHWS & Shepshed RHWS)
(Secondary sites – Whetstone RHWS & Kibworth RHWS)
About You
To apply for this post, you must have:
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Jonathan Murray, Waste Management Technician
section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: .
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