Metal Recycling Apprentice

Are you highly organised, accurate, and confident working with numbers? As a Metal Recycling Operative Apprentice in the Weighbridge Option B pathway, you’ll learn how to manage grade materials, record weights and movements correctly, complete essential paperwork, and support safe, compliant site operations. This role suits someone who takes pride in detail, enjoys structured tasks, and can communicate clearly with drivers, customers, and colleagues.

• Meet your manager and mentor and complete your site and weighbridge induction and attend a Company induction at Head office.
• Learn the site layout, traffic routes, safe systems of work, and customer check-in process.
• Complete any outstanding paperwork and get introduced to the weighbridge and site administration systems.

• Learn how to grade and book materials in and out, record weights accurately, and issue the correct tickets and paperwork.
• Build your understanding of metal types, grading, authorized materials, and the importance of precise data entry.
• Develop confidence in customer service, compliance checks, and communicating clearly with drivers and the wider site team.

• On successful completion, you’ll be ready to progress into a permanent Metal Recycling Operative or Weighbridge Operative role with ongoing support and development.
• You’ll achieve a Level 2 Metal Recycling General Operative apprenticeship with a weighbridge specialism.
• Your pay will increase in line with your progression, skills, and responsibilities and you will also be invited to undertake a WAMITAB qualification to enhance your waste management knowledge.

• Enthusiastic individual with desire to learn.
• Strong attention to detail, a careful approach to accuracy.
• Confidence working with numbers.
• You’ll be reliable, organised, comfortable using systems, and ready to learn how to process weighbridge information correctly while building your knowledge of recycling operations, compliance, and customer service.
• Basic Maths and English skills (GCSE level or equivalent) are required.

We require candidates to provide proof they have the right to work in the UK and are unable to proceed with applications for candidates who do not have the right to work in the UK.

• A competitive rate of pay.
• Life assurance (2 x Salary).
• Health cash plan to cover dental, optical and other health costs.
• Supportive team operating as part a family run business with free company social events.

The Collard Group is one of the largest privately-owned waste management companies in the South of England and a leading demolition specialist nationwide. Our 400-strong team operate from nine recycling facilities across five counties and contracts across the UK. With over 150 lorries our recycling operations cover Hampshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey and we have the capacity to process over 1m tonnes of waste and recycled aggregates every year.

We have grown year-on-year into a multi-disciplined provider of demolition, remediation, earthworks, waste management, recycling, virgin and recycled aggregates and ready-mix concrete. We continually invest for the future and typically spend over £5m each year on infrastructure, plant and equipment. We’re committed to training and developing and a great place to work for our people along with providing great products, services and solutions for our customers.