Site Maintenance Service Operative

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Site Maintenance Service Operative

Salary: £27,190 – £32,000 depending on experience (plus benefits)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 8:00am to 4:30pm
Location: South East (to cover East Anglia, Cambridgeshire, Kent & Essex)

As a Site Maintenance Service Operative at FCC Environment, you will carry out site checks, oversee contractor activities and support repair and maintenance activities across inert and closed sites. You will help ensure that work is carried out safely, efficiently and with proper regard for environmental compliance.

This vacancy is for a full-time position, working 5 days per week.

Our promise to you

- Competitive salary
- 25 days’ annual leave (full-time working) plus Bank Holidays
- Pension scheme
- Life insurance
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- On-the-job training and progression
- Recognition scheme
- Refer a friend
- Flexible benefits, including high street savings, cycle to work scheme and Gymflex membership, and many more (where applicable)
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and the Best Doctors Service via our Wellbeing Platform

What will you be doing?

- Assisting with daily, weekly and monthly checks across closed sites in accordance with FCC procedures
- Identifying and escalating issues that require remedial works or statutory inspections
- Undertaking appropriate repairs to site equipment and infrastructure, including sourcing spares and supporting maintenance programming
- Carrying out relevant infrastructure checks on leachate systems and investigating and repairing issues where required
- Supporting the efficient extraction of landfill gas and leachate to maximise environmental compliance
- Managing and carrying out inductions for temporary labour, contractors and visitors
- Controlling contractor activities and maintaining relevant paperwork in line with Company procedures
- Carrying out regular inspections of site security and management systems, taking remedial action where necessary
- Supporting the repair and maintenance of plant and equipment as directed by the Site Manager and supervisor
- Ensuring site activities take account of relevant planning consents, ecological licences and environmental permits

What are we looking for?

- An understanding of leachate and gas systems
- An understanding of environmental issues, including gas control, leachate and surface water
- Experience of working outdoors
- A UK driving licence
- A basic understanding of the Health & Safety at Work Act
- Basic IT skills, including email, Microsoft Word and smartphone use
- The ability and willingness to work alone, use your own initiative and follow Lone Working Procedures
- Willingness to travel during the working day and work across different locations depending on operational requirements
- Comfortable working outdoors throughout the year
- Willingness to learn and apply existing knowledge to solve problems

About Us

We are FCC Environment, one of the nation’s leading waste and resource management companies. Committed to sustainability, we strive to minimise the amount of waste that ends up in landfill by transforming it into valuable resources wherever possible.

We operate over 200 facilities in England, Scotland and Wales and employ around 4,500 people.

The profile of the UK's recycling and waste management industry has never been higher. We need people who are up for the challenge to help us tackle climate change. We need people with ideas. We need you. Together we will meet the UK’s waste management and energy recovery needs.

FCC Environment is an equal opportunities employer, we value diversity, and we are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment.

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