Vacancies
Resource Futures is an employee-owned, ethically driven company which works on sustainable waste management and resource efficiency projects.
Equality in employment is important to us, and we are striving to attract a workforce that reflects the population of the areas we work in - we will consider and fairly assess your application whatever your background.
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All our current vacancies are listed on this page:
Flats Recycling Support Officers required in Torbay
Short Term Contracts - always available
Flats Recycling Support Officers required in Torbay
Flats Recycling Support Officers (x2, fixed-term contract for 2 months) are needed for an exciting project working in Torbay, helping residents living in blocks of flats use a new recycling collection service and encouraging them to recycle more.
Duties will include:
- Assessing properties for suitability for communal recycling facilities and their location on site
- Liaising between landlords, managing agents and Tor2 about the recycling facilities
- Promoting the scheme before the roll out of the new service in the blocks
- Educating residents about their communal recycling facilities
- Delivering promotion materials
- Monitoring the new scheme
- Recording recycling behaviours
- General assisting with the change in service
The salary is £18,000 pro rata. This is a full time, 2 month fix-term contract.
Candidates must be available for an interview on Tuesday 14th September and available to start work immediately.
For an application pack please email waro.jobs@resourcefutures.co.uk. We do not accept CVs.
Enquiries to Peter Wills on 0117 914 1281.
The deadline for receipt of applications is Friday 10th September 2010 at 9am.
Waste Composition Operatives (various temporary work)
£7.35 per hour (guaranteed 7 hours per working day)
The Waste and Recycling Operations team are looking for people to join our pool of casual staff, to carry out waste composition work. We are particularly looking for experienced drivers of large vehicles such as long wheel base Ford Transits and Mercedes Sprinters.
You will collect household waste and recycling, transport it to a local depot, hand sort it into different categories and record the results. You will be part of a small friendly team which will travel from our Bristol depot to different parts of the UK, generally for five consecutive days work.
The work helps improve local authority knowledge and understanding of the household waste stream and provides practical waste operations experience for anyone looking for a career in the environment or waste industry.
Accommodation, subsistence expenses and protective clothing are provided. The work would suit people that want flexibility in their work commitments and are happy to work away from home for short periods.
You must be reliable, motivated, practical, methodical and used to getting your hands dirty.
For more information about this work, please contact Jane Tily. You will need to provide us with details of your driving experience, your address and phone number.
Telephone: 0117 914 1283. jane.tily@resourcefutures.co.uk
Forthcoming contracts include Milton Keynes, Northampton, Lancashire and Bath.
Short Term Contracts
We are often looking for staff for short term contracts in the following roles in different areas of the country:
Recycling canvassers:
You will talk to people on their doorstep promoting recycling or other waste issues, for example explaining about a new recycling service and answering questions about it.
Doorstep surveyors:
You will carry out monitoring of individual household recycling using a doorstep questionnaire to find out how people use the recycling system and barriers to recycling.
Participation/contamination monitors:
You will monitor the doorstep set out rates for various dry recycling and composting kerbside collection systems.
For more information about this work, please contact Jane Tily
tel. 0117 914 1283
jane.tily@resourcefutures.co.uk