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Job Title: Waste Operative
Rate of Pay: £12.71 per hour
Contract: Permanent
Type of Employment: Part Time
Hours: 35 hours per week
Shift Pattern: Monday- Friday (14:00 to 22:00, 22.00pm – 06.00am)
Essential Requirement: Full UK driving license is required
Location: Mitie, Manchester Airport, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, M90 1QX
The primary objective of this role is to work effectively within the Transport Team, ensuring all duties are carried out efficiently and in compliance with contractual requirements, company health and safety standards, and quality procedures. The role requires successful completion of all training specific to the position. Key responsibilities include maintaining all equipment in a clean, safe, and functional condition, ensuring compliance with PAT testing and other safety checks. The job holder must have a thorough understanding of the designated cleaning processes, work specifications, and allocated time for each task, completing all daily, weekly, and periodic duties as directed by management.
A full working knowledge of cleaning equipment, materials, and approved chemicals is essential, along with adherence to health and safety legislation and site policies. Accurate logging in and out of shifts is required to reflect contracted hours. Employees must comply with client and airport safety practices, minimize material waste, and report maintenance defects promptly. High standards of personal hygiene and appearance are mandatory, including appropriate footwear, minimal jewelry, and wearing issued PPE.
The role also involves observing fire and safety regulations, addressing complaints within scope, and performing miscellaneous cleaning duties as instructed. Tasks include office cleaning, litter picking in external areas such as car parks, gritting pathways using hand gritters, jet washing, gum removal, and operating vehicles like 4x4 L200 and Transit Tipper, for which a full UK driving license is required. Full training and uniform will be provided.
The ideal candidate must be flexible to meet shift patterns and contractual requirements, demonstrate a positive approach, and work within Mitie's core values: being trustworthy, helpful, inspiring, spirited, and pioneering.
This includes treating colleagues with respect, promoting safety, sharing information, supporting development, encouraging innovation, and maintaining team spirit. Health and safety responsibilities include following company policies, reporting deficiencies in systems or equipment, using PPE correctly, and escalating issues or training needs to the line manager.
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 76,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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