Resource Recovery Centre Operator

• Various permanent positions available across both full time and part time, with a variety of shift patterns. All include weekend work.
• Salary ranges from $90,000 to $107,000 per annum + Superannuation (roster dependent).
• Monthly RDO for full time positions.
• Join the Resource Recovery team.

Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

As a Resource Recovery Centre Operator, you will play an important role in ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of services to the Hume community. Primarily, you will undertake the day-to-day service delivery at Council’s resource recovery centre(s), through activities including, but not limited to; plant and equipment operation, customer service, material separation, resource recovery and site presentation.  

What you’ll be doing:

• Operate at Council’s Resource Recovery Centres in accordance with operational, environmental and safety legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Undertake site preparation and opening processes, ensuring access by the public is available for the duration of the facilities advertised operating hours (as required/rostered).
• Undertake site closing processes, ensuring all employees, customers, and contractors have vacated the site prior to securing the site to prevent unauthorized access (as required/rostered).
• Inspect incoming loads, provide direction to the correct disposal point, ensuring prohibited or unacceptable materials are rejected in accordance with procedures.
• Identify, separate, recover, and relocate items and materials suitable for resale at the Recycled Goods Store.
• Control traffic, including vehicles, pedestrians and plant/equipment within the site in accordance with procedures.
• Ensure the Resource Recovery Centre is well-presented and kept in a neat and tidy manner, including through litter collection activities.
• Undertake the removal of contaminates in accordance with training and procedures.
• Assist customers (as required) with material disposal, manual handling, and wayfinding within the Resource Recovery Centre
• Contribute to creating and maintaining a safe working environment, including through the identification and reporting of hazards, near misses, incidents.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Understanding of waste management, recycling, and/or resource recovery centre/transfer station operations.
• Skills to understand the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 and regulations, and ability to follow and apply health and safety requirements and procedures within operational environments.
• Knowledge and skills applicable to identification of recovery of recyclable and recoverable materials from the incoming waste streams.
• The ability to ensure dealings with the public are undertaken in a courteous manner and promote and maintain a positive public image.
• Physical skills with the capability to undertake a range of manual handling duties.
• Competent operation of plant and equipment (including forklift, front end loader/backhoe and excavator), ideally in a similar environment.
• Ability to manage oneself during the day and collaborate with team members, contractors, suppliers, and customers to achieve short term goals / objectives.
• Follow procedures prepared and agreed by management for the day-to-day operations of the Resource Recovery Centre
• Ability to work to a schedule to ensure the continuity of operations.
• Ability to follow safe work practices and implement OHS responses.

Required Certifications & Qualifications 

The following qualifications and experience are required for the position:

• Experience in waste management, resource recovery, recycling and/or resource recovery centre/transfer station operations.
• Experience in frontline customer management including conflict resolution.
• Demonstrated experience complying with and working to Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental Protection regulations, policies and procedures.
• Current car drivers’ licence (minimum requirement), with experience driving off-road (4x4) preferred.
• Current forklift, front-end loader, and/or excavator licences, with experience operating this equipment.

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We’re better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We’re in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+ people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check.