Casual Waste Operative / Caretaker
| Company: | Sodexo Ltd |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £13.45 to £13.45 an hour |
| Hours: | Part-time |
| Location: | Buxton, SK17 7JD |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 2 Oct 2026 |
| Closing date: | 16 Oct 2026 |
Summary
- *Site Specific Benefits
- Casual
- Hours per week as required
- £13.45 per hour
- Free parking
- Opportunities for career development
- Plus our Sodexo employee benefits package
Casual Waste Operative
Buxton - Casual
Operational excellence begins with you.
At Sodexo, we’re passionate about our people.We know that our teams are the key to delivering exceptional service and creating quality experiences for our clients, customers, and employees. Build a name with big-name businesses.
As a
Casual Waste Operative with Sodexo, you'll enhance the services of our vibrant corporate site, offering a helping hand to ensure flawless facilities operations and keep things running smoothly.
What you'll do:
- Collect different waste streams from departments and buildings across the site.
- Ensure waste is
- Move waste, materials and equipment safely around the site.
- Operate
- Complete daily safety checks on forklifts and waste-handling equipment and report any faults.
- Operate waste-processing and power-cleaning equipment safely.
- Check waste bins and containers are secure and safe before moving them.
- Clean waste bins, containers and waste-handling equipment.
- Maintain the cleanliness of
- Carry out minor repairs to bins and equipment using basic hand tools where appropriate.
- Identify and report incorrect waste disposal, leaks, hazards or other waste-management issues.
- Respond to scheduled tasks and ad-hoc operational requests.
- Follow all relevant
- Wear the appropriate PPE and follow safe working practices at all times.
- Complete relevant training and maintain required standards of compliance.
- Support the wider team with other reasonable operational duties when required.
correctly segregated, supporting recycling and environmental targets.
forklift trucks and waste-handling equipment where required.
yard areas, workshops, plant rooms and machinery.
Safe Systems of Work, Health & Safety, Fire Safety and COSHH procedures.
What you'll bring:
- A current
- Previous experience working within
- A basic understanding of waste management, recycling and waste segregation.
- A strong awareness of
- The ability to operate equipment safely and follow procedures.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- A reliable, practical and hands-on approach.
- The ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- A flexible approach to working hours and duties.
- The ability to carry out the physical requirements of the role.
Forklift Truck (FLT) licence.
waste operations or a similar industrial/operational environment.
Health & Safety and safe working practices.
Why Sodexo?:
Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.
Belong in a company and team that values you for you.
Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.
Thrive in your own way.
We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:
- Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
- An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
- Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
- Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers
- Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
- Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
- Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
- Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies
A little more about Sodexo:
At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.
We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.
Click
here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.
Ready to be part of something greater?
Work with the best in the business.
Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications
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