Recycling Centre Assistant - DEE05919 [04/04/2025]

Dundee City Council is hiring a Recycling Centre Assistant for 37 hours per week at Baldovie or Riverside Household Waste Recycling Centres. The role involves maintaining cleanliness, assisting the public, and ensuring proper material segregation for recycling. Candidates should have customer service experience, manual handling skills, and awareness of health and safety in recycling. The position requires working irregular hours, including weekends.
Job Description Job DescriptionBased at Baldovie orRiverside Household Waste Recycling Centres, you will work onaverage 37 hours per week any 5 days out of 7 including weekendworking on an annualised basis, which varies from April toSeptember (9am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday: 8.25 hours; 9am to5.30pm: 8.5 hours), and October to March (9am to 4.15pm Monday toFriday: 7.5 hours; 9am to 4.30pm: 7.5 hours)./n /nIf you have anyqueries regarding this vacancy, please contact Martin Jeffers byemail at martin.jeffers@dundeecity.gov.ukRequirementsYou will havebasic numeric and reading/writing skills.ResponsibilitiesYou willensure that the recycling centres are maintained in a clean andtidy condition at all times. You will provide assistance anddirection to the general public and other site users and to ensurethat materials are properly segregated into the appropriatecategories and areas for re-use and recycling.The IndividualYouwill have experience of customer service provision, manual handlingskills, lifting of goods, containers, etc, and knowledge ofrecycling requirements or environmental issues. An awareness ofHealth and Safety issues related to recycling centres is alsoessential, along with the ability to maintain a high level of sitetidiness and to control site traffic./n /nYou will also have goodcommunication skills, be willing to help and deal politely andcourteously with members of the public and have the ability to useown initiative and ability to work unsupervised./n /nFurthermore,the ability to regularly pull, push and carry heavy bulky items,equipment and to walk varying distances on-site, including up/downgradients and steps is essential as is the ability to workirregular hours and weekends, and a willingness to undergo trainingare also essential.