Salary: £11.98 per hour, equivalent to £24,918.40 per year

Contract: Permanent, full-time, minimum of 40 hours’ per week

Hours: Monday to Friday, with some weekend working

Location: Thirsk Waste Transfer Station, Thirsk Industrial Park, York Road, Thirsk YO7 3BX

Benefits: 20 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays, pension, store discounts and more

About You

Would you consider yourself a confident people-person with a keen eye for detail? As a Weighbridge Operator and Administration Support at our Thirsk transfer site, you will be responsible for weighing and measuring vehicles and containers, while accurately recording information onto our database.

Confident and happy to interact with customers and visitors, you will often be the first point of contact to anyone visiting our sites. You will take pride in your work with great attention to detail, wanting to provide a helpful, safe and positive experience for our customers and team.

Passionate for creating a great customer experience, your working day will be varied, rewarding and important within our local community. Drawing on administrative skills using Microsoft Word and Excel, you demonstrate great attention to detail when processing and entering data into our computer databases. It would be desirable if you have experience using a system such as PurGo, however we are happy to provide dedicated training to the right candidate.

For further details, please read the Job Description here.

About Yorwaste

Yorwaste is North Yorkshire’s leading waste management company, passionate about supporting community and local environment, while delivering a warm and professional customer experience. We believe in investing in our team and the tools you need to succeed. Currently our sites achieve over 90% recycling rates to help keep North Yorkshire looking beautiful.

Joining us at Yorwaste is more than just a job. We strive to provide our team with a long-term stable career, training and development, and a positive engaging working environment. As an equal opportunity’s employer, alongside our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we take pride in supporting the development of North Yorkshire and its people.

What we can offer

In return, we are offering an hourly rate of £11.98 per hour, equivalent to a salary of £24,918.40 per year. We offer extra allowance for working Sundays and Bank Holidays, and there may be opportunity for additional hours. We can offer 20 days’ holiday per year, plus bank holidays, increasing to 25 days’ with 5 years continuing employment.

This is a permanent role working full-time, including some weekends and bank holidays. Therefore availability over this schedule is important. Working at our Thirsk Waste Transfer Station, you may be required to cover holiday, sickness and illness on other nearby sites, therefore holding a driver’s licence and having access to personal transport is an advantage.

At Yorwaste you will have access to a company pension as well as benefits and discounts such as a cycle to work scheme and technical equipment scheme. Through our Employee Assistance programme we offer great access to health and wellbeing resources as well as acknowledging and rewarding great health and safety procedure, innovative ideas and recognition for long service with us.

How to Apply

To apply, we ask you to please submit an application form and your CV to Bradley at bradley.naylor@northyorks.gov.uk. You can find the application form on the Yorwaste Careers page, or please download a copy of this here.

If you have further questions, please call Bradley on 01609 534365 for an informal discussion about the role and the recruitment process. It is important that your CV includes your full contact details, employment history, any qualifications and explanation of any gaps in employment or experiences.

Closing date for applications is midnight on Monday 29th May 2023.

Shortlisting will be completed on Tuesday 30th May 2023 and Interviews are planned to take place on Tuesday 6th June 2023 at Thirsk Transfer Station.

Yorwaste is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief.

Interviews may take place throughout the recruitment process, and we reserve the right to remove this vacancy before the proposed deadline in the event of the position being filled, or a high number of applications are received.

We will not accept applications from agencies and can only consider applications from individuals with right to work within the UK.