Street Care Driver / Operative
| Posting date: | 01 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £28,884 to £31,344 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Location: | Chelmsford, Essex |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Chelmsford City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to play a key role in helping us ensure that the infrastructure of the borough of Chelmsford is kept to the best standard possible.
The Council’s Street Care Service is a wide ranging service geared toward improving the quality of the environment by improving litter standards, removing the nuisance created by fly-tipping, graffiti and fly-posting and improving feelings of safety and security.
Supporting the front line service is the Hit Squad team which undertake a wide ranging number of activities to ensure that the streets remain free from litter and fly-tips. This particular role will also cover for the street services team (approximately 25% of time) to drive the larger HGV vehicles such as the jet-vac tankers. Hiab cranes etc.
A current HGV class C licence and CPC is required for this post as well as experience in driving HGV vehicles in a commercial environment.
Based at our Freighter House depot in Springfield, the post holder would normally be expected to work the following hours:
Monday to Thursday 07:00am – 3:30pm, Friday 07:00am to 3:00
It should be noted however that some flexibility will be required, including occasional early or later starts, or the requirement to work on a weekend or bank holiday.
The successful candidate will be expected to work 37 hours per week.
Find out more about Chelmsford and Working for the City Council by viewing our Uncover Your Potential brochure above.
Chelmsford City Council is committed to safeguarding vulnerable groups and expects all employees to share this commitment and have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services. The Council's Safer Recruitment process contains pre-employment checks which includes safeguarding training, obtaining references and ensuring compliance with Disclosure and Barring Service process.
To view further details for this role including a job description, please click the link on the attachments section.
The Council’s Street Care Service is a wide ranging service geared toward improving the quality of the environment by improving litter standards, removing the nuisance created by fly-tipping, graffiti and fly-posting and improving feelings of safety and security.
Supporting the front line service is the Hit Squad team which undertake a wide ranging number of activities to ensure that the streets remain free from litter and fly-tips. This particular role will also cover for the street services team (approximately 25% of time) to drive the larger HGV vehicles such as the jet-vac tankers. Hiab cranes etc.
A current HGV class C licence and CPC is required for this post as well as experience in driving HGV vehicles in a commercial environment.
Based at our Freighter House depot in Springfield, the post holder would normally be expected to work the following hours:
Monday to Thursday 07:00am – 3:30pm, Friday 07:00am to 3:00
It should be noted however that some flexibility will be required, including occasional early or later starts, or the requirement to work on a weekend or bank holiday.
The successful candidate will be expected to work 37 hours per week.
Find out more about Chelmsford and Working for the City Council by viewing our Uncover Your Potential brochure above.
Chelmsford City Council is committed to safeguarding vulnerable groups and expects all employees to share this commitment and have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services. The Council's Safer Recruitment process contains pre-employment checks which includes safeguarding training, obtaining references and ensuring compliance with Disclosure and Barring Service process.
To view further details for this role including a job description, please click the link on the attachments section.
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