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Salary - £12.71 Per Hour - Current Role Holders earn between £28,000 - £37,000 per annum OTE
Hours - 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday 8.00am till 16:30
Overtime before and after shifts when needed to meet business needs
Location -Stewartby, Green Lane, MK43 9LY
This role involves working away from home for extended periods of time
Must be flexible to work evenings, nights and weekends
Must be prepared to travel locally to the main depot
When you see the world as we do, you see the chance to help the world take better care of its resources and help it become a better place for everyone.
Whether you’re looking to overhaul the industry, or just do a good day’s work, we know that everyone here at Veolia can help us work alongside our communities, look after the environment, and contribute to our inclusive culture.
What we can offer you;
Additional hours worked during the week or Saturdays will be paid at time and a half
Sundays and Bank Holidays are paid at double time
Hourly uplift when working away from home, including paid accommodation plus meal allowance
Inclusion in our people’s pension
Access to employee discounts
22 days holiday, rising to 25 days
What Will You Be Doing
We are looking for an Industrial Cleaning Operative to join our busy team of 11 operators and 3 tanker drivers. You will cover the Midlands and South of England area where you will be required to work across various sites in confined spaces, undertaking different types of cleaning duties including high-pressure water jetting.
Working in confined spaces for both long and short periods of time depending on the type of work
Prepping surfaces before performing high pressure jetting cleaning. Dealing with various types of hazardous & Non hazardous chemicals.
Cleaning our ERF sites during shutdowns which can take up to 6 weeks at a time
Working away at short notice dependant on business needs
What Are We Looking For
Essential:
Must be prepared to work away from home for extended periods of time and to work flexible hours, evenings, nights and weekends
Must be prepared to travel locally to the main depot
Good working knowledge of health & safety
Full driving licence
Desirable - training can be provided
Proven background in Industrial cleaning activities
City and Guilds High-Risk Confined Space training
City and Guilds High-Pressure Water Jetting training with modules (Surface Preparation, tubes & bundles and drain cleaning)
CCNSG ( Safety Passport )
What’s next?
Apply today, so we can make a difference for generations to come.
We're proud to have been named as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work for three consecutive years in 2023, 2024 and 2025. This consistent recognition reflects our commitment to our people, demonstrating that Veolia is not just transforming the environment, we're also transforming what it means to have a rewarding, purposeful career.
We're dedicated to supporting you throughout your application journey, offering adjustments where reasonable and appropriate. As a proud Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who opt-in to the Disability Confident scheme, and meet the minimum criteria for our roles.
We're also committed to ensuring that all applicants and colleagues receive fair treatment without discrimination on any grounds, aiming to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Veolia UK provides solutions for ecological transformation which means reconciling human progress with environmental protection. We develop and implement local solutions to depollute our vital resources and regenerate resources to preserve them from depletion along with solutions to decarbonize our ways of living and adapt them to the consequences of climate change.
We are a company of almost 14,000 employees, although we prefer to think of ourselves as “resourcers”. Every day across the country our “resourcers” design and deploy useful and concrete solutions, which help our customers fight against climate change, prevent pollution of waterways, soil and air and create a circular economy where nothing goes to waste.
Every year, we serve around 1.8 million people through our municipal wastewater contracts. We complete over 400 million waste collections across our Local Authority contracts, serving over 3 million residential properties; and we treat over 1.5 million tonnes of commercial and industrial waste from our 85,000 private customers. We also produce over 560 MWe of renewable and low carbon electricity, to power over 1.3 million homes.
We also anticipate the needs of tomorrow with innovative solutions that will decarbonise our energy and heating demands through the development of microgrids and energy management through our Hubgrade solution, which optimises the resources using digital and artificial intelligence.
Veolia UK is an exciting and innovative place to work, but don't just take our word for it - we were named as one of the top 10 'Very Big Organisations' to work for in The Sunday Times' Best Places to Work 2024.
We are driven by optimism and passion, not to see the world as it is, but how it should be; and we are tenacious in our efforts to achieve our goals.
These aren't just empty words.
