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Salary:£15.84 per hour, OTE £30,000 - £36,000 plus Veolia benefits
Hours:40 Hours per week, Monday to Friday - 7am - 3:30pm + Overtime
Location: Pontypridd, Cardiff CF15 7QT - travelling to sites around the South Wales Region
Working away from home, sometimes for extensive periods on a national basis.
Regular overtime, weekends and nights as required.
Additional hours worked during the week or Saturdays will be paid at time and a half
Sundays and bank holidays will be double time.
Hourly uplift when working away from home, including paid accommodation plus meal allowance.
Veolia’s industrial division combines a range of industrial services to provide appropriate solutions such as chemical cleaning, tank cleaning, materials handling, water jetting and environmental response.
What we can offer you:
22 days of annual leave
Refer a driver to us once you’ve joined and earn £1000
Access to our people’s pension scheme
Free physiotherapy service
Discounts on everything from groceries to well known retailers
Access to a range of resources to support your physical, mental and financial health; so you can lean on us whenever you need to
Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential
What you’ll be doing;
Working on our clients sites, alongside our Industrial Services Cleaning teams
Operating a high airflow machine, vacuum tanker, Hiflo disab
Driving to collection locations and disposal points where required
Complying with all traffic laws, legislation and EU driving regulations
This position also includes operative duties such as confined space works, tank cleaning and ultra high pressure & low pressure jetting
Working away from home when required
What we’re looking for;
Class 2 (Category C) License
ADR qualification
Experience with vacuum tankers
Hiflo disab experience
Up to date Driver CPC and Digi / Tachograph card
What’s next?
Apply today, so we can make a difference for generations to come.
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