EMCOR UK
Waste Operative
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Role Overview
Location: Barrow-In-Furness
Salary: £13.45 per hour
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:30 to 16:00
What You'll Do
- Ensure smooth operation of daily waste collections, and coordination as per site's specific requirements, ensuring compliance with manual handling, risk assessment, method statements and client specific procedures.
- Ensure that the General and all co-mingled waste streams are collected by EFS waste partner, and all departments are adequately covered.
- Manage and coordinate additional waste exchanges/collections with EMCOR helpdesk.
- Ensure that waste holders and areas (including the waste compound) are kept tidy, from accidental spilling, leaking or leaching, waste blowing away or falling whilst stored or transported and scavenging of waste by animals or humans.
- Adherence to all EFS and contract processes for Environmental and Waste Management.
- Work alongside site waste provider to ensure that site is working to the best available practices with regards to waste collections, storage, reuse, recycling and treatment of waste.
- Work with site Compliance team to help apply the waste hierarchy (as required by Regulation 12 of the Waste England and Wales Regulations 2011) to prevent, prepare for reuse, recycle and other recovery and disposal.
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Who you'll be:
- Site knowledge and experience not essential but an advantage, however full training will be provided.
- Current full UK driving Licence essential.
EMCOR UK Benefits
At EMCOR UK part of OCS, we deliver facilities management for the Defence sector by combining our engineering heritage with advanced innovation to support mission critical environments. We put people at the heart of everything we do, working closely with Defence customers to understand their needs, from strategic estate priorities to the safe, reliable delivery of day-to-day services across secure sites.
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For our people, working in Defence offers long term stability and the opportunity to build a meaningful, lasting career. Defence contracts are typically longstanding, providing job security, continuity of work, and the chance to develop deep expertise within complex, high profile environments.
Our purpose is to ensure Defence infrastructure remains resilient, compliant, and ready to support operational effectiveness.
Through our One Data World platform, we use secure, data-driven insights to optimise performance, proactively manage critical assets, and adapt services to evolving operational demands, while enhancing the experience of personnel on-site.
By taking on the complexity of facilities management, EMCOR UK enables Defence organisations to stay focused on their core mission, while we ensure the infrastructure behind it performs without compromise.
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