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Our client is one of the leading independent waste management companies in the South and require a professional Weighbridge Operator & Administrator to join their Portsmouth site.
You must have some industry knowledge and ideally previous experience of controlling all vehicle movements over a weighbridge and accurately weigh the vehicles.
Main duties
- Excellent customer service whilst interacting with all drivers, processing paperwork and taking payment as required
- Liaising with drivers helping to resolve any problems and queries and relay information from the head office to the drivers as needed
- Answering the site telephone and dealing with any customer enquiries
- Advising customers of permitted waste types and hazardous wastes checking customer waste carrier licences and maintaining the register
- Assisting the accounts department with any queries
- Processing end of month reports
- Assisting the Operations Manager on a day-to-day tasks and projects
- General office administration and supporting other members of the team
- Key holder for the site and opening and closing the site and ensuring the alarm system is activated
Knowledge and Skills
- Previous Waste industry administration or weighbridge knowledge
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Good organisation and IT skills with the ability to use own initiative
- Very good attention to detail to ensure accuracy of information
- Good geographical knowledge
- Ability to remain calm and patient when under pressure
- Experience of or ability to work within a busy and fast-paced environment
Salary & Reward
- £32,000
- 25 days holiday increasing with longevity
- Workplace pension scheme
- Death in Service Life Cover after 1 year’s service
- Free uniform and free parking
Hours
- Office open hours 6am to 6pm Monday to Friday
- Shifts are 9.5 hours each day, plus a half an hour unpaid lunch break (6.00 am to 4.00 pm or 8.00 am to 6.00 pm on a rota basis)
- Saturday mornings from 6.00 am to 12.30 pm on a rota basis – Not weekly
