FLT and Waste Operative

Overview

Better places, thriving communities.

Salary: £14.15 / hour
Hours: 38.5 hours week
Shift Pattern: 7 pm to 7 am - 4 days on / 4 days off
Contract: Permanent

In your new role as an FLT Driver, you'll be working within a warehouse environment as part of our cleaning and waste team and undertake the operation of Forklift Truck driving within a health and safety conscious environment. Your duties will include loading and unloading pallet trailers, loading cardboard and plastic bales onto trailers, and sorting, moving and stacking pallets. Ensure all equipment is kept clean, well maintained and is in safe working order, perform miscellaneous cleaning duties and provide support to the waste team, whilst wearing PPE and complying with health and safety legislation.

• Operate forklift truck within a health and safety conscious environment.
• Load and unload pallet trailers; load cardboard and plastic bales onto trailers.
• Sort, move and stack pallets; ensure equipment is clean and well maintained.
• Perform miscellaneous cleaning duties and provide support to the waste team.
• Wear PPE and comply with health and safety legislation.

• Holiday entitlement
• Pension contributions
• Discounts to over 850 high street retailers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to Save as you earn scheme and share incentive plan
• A free virtual GP service
• Free hot and cold drinks

Plus, we love to recognise our colleagues for their hard work. We do this through our Mitie Stars programme and our Employee of the Month Scheme. We also involve colleagues throughout the year when we celebrate holidays and events.

• Counter Balance license
• 3 months forklift operative experience is preferred
• Communicative English is essential; an English language assessment may be required
• Good organisational skills, detail conscious, initiative, and excellent time management
• Ability to complete appropriate documentation and work across the required shift pattern
• From Basic Disclosure (DBS Check) and undertake a drug and alcohol screening test

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.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 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.

Join our Mitie Team. Together our diversity makes us stronger.

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