Bin & Box Driver

Job introduction

Would you like to work in a friendly team and help keep our city clean and safe?

We are recruiting for a Driver in a hands-on role to deliver and remove bin containers throughout the Brighton & Hove area.

Do you:

• Want to support the residents of the city?
• Want to work in different locations every day?
• Know your city?
• Have a full clean driver's licence?

If so, we’d welcome your application to work within our busy Environmental Services Bin & Box delivery team.

Interview date: July 2025

For an informal discussion, please contact Max Murray, Operations Manager on 07395 282754 and/or Max.Murray@brighton-hove.gov.uk

About the role

You will travel to different locations across the city as part of a team delivering or removing bin containers delivering high customer service. (vehicle will be provided). The tasks are constantly different with no two days the same!

This is a permanent job role working: Mon-Fri 6am – 2pm.

The key tasks are:

• Following delivery or removal schedules.
• Delivering bin containers.
• Removing bin containers that are no longer required.
• Taking broken bin containers and other items to scrap merchants.
• Unloading deliveries of new container stock to storage from suppliers.
• Using high pressure water lance to clean inside bins to reuse for delivery.

Our residents come from a variety of backgrounds so you will need to be comfortable interacting with a wide range of people when delivering.

In return for your skills and hard work, we offer:

• Training and development opportunities
• Staff benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail shopping, travel and socialising to health and wellbeing
• Paid annual leave.
• Local Government pension scheme
• Full uniform provided.

Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to upload your Application Form and answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as it will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Application Form guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and (Shortlisting guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us

Company information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).