Night shift recycling operative.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, motivate, and supervise a team of operatives, allocating work and providing coaching and support throughout the shift.
• Promote a positive health and safety culture by carrying out safety briefings, ensuring correct PPE is worn, and identifying and reporting hazards.
• Monitor the performance of plant and equipment, coordinating with the maintenance team to minimise downtime and resolve operational issues.
• Oversee the sorting and processing of recyclable materials, ensuring output quality meets required standards and contamination is minimised.
• Maintain high standards of housekeeping across the facility to ensure a safe and efficient working environment.
• Record shift performance, production figures, incidents, and equipment issues, providing clear handovers to the day shift.
• Monitor productivity and recovery rates, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and team performance.
• Ensure all company policies, environmental requirements, and operational procedures are followed at all times.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Previous experience supervising teams within an industrial, manufacturing, recycling, or waste environment.
• Strong leadership, communication, and people management skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making ability.
• A strong commitment to health, safety, and environmental compliance.
• Ability to work permanent night shifts.
• Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workloads.
• Experience working within a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) or waste management environment.
• Knowledge of recycling processes and material quality standards.
• IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent health and safety qualification.
• Experience supervising plant operations and production targets.

Why Work For Enva?