General Depot Operative

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Croft Depot Arbor Road LE9 3GE or Mountsorrel LE12 7AH

Worker Category: Fixed Location Worker

Salary: 26832 - 28146 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours:37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Sunday 2nd November 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC - Interviews will be in person

About the Role

This role will involve working within the Stores building at Croft or Mountsorrel depot from 06:45am until 16:00 pm Monday to Thursday and 06:45am until 15:30pm Fridays.

You will work as part of our team to deliver a best value customer-focussed service throughout Leicestershire and occasionally surrounding counties. You will undertake operational and administrative duties to support the management of the Councils transport depots highways stores and highways waste management areas. You will also support the provision of highway maintenance construction forestry and street lighting activities.

Activities include:

• Yard management;
• Forklift Truck and Telehandler other large plant operation
• Delivery and Collection of goods using heavy and light goods vehicles
• Waste Transfer processes.

The nature of the work may include the job holder occasionally carrying out duties outside of normal hours. All weather conditions will need to be worked in to meet the needs of the service.

Stores may work out of standard hours but not as part of a call-out rota.

This role is a Safety Critical Post and consequently subject to random drug and alcohol testing in accordance with our policies and procedures. A copy of our Substance Misuse Policy and Procedure is available upon request.

About You

To apply for this post you must hold or be willing to work towards:

• A valid Large Goods Vehicle Licence and CPC Trained with current DQC Cardis desirable
• Tele-Handler and Lift Truck license or obtain within 6 months of employment
• Experience of working in a highways civil engineering or stores/warehousing environment with Record-keeping/Stock-keeping and experience of handling and management of materials plant or other commodities
• Experience of dealing with internal and external customers on the telephone and face to face gives customers the correct information and keeps them up to date with regular contact and can remain calm & positive in challenging circumstances.
• Familiarity with recycling & waste operations
• Knowledge of safe working practices when using plant and machinery of depot/ warehouse Health Safety and Environmental requirements and safe working procedures and knowledge of legislation including drivers hours PPE and manual handling
• Core communication skills both written and verbal be able and willing to work with everyone in the team and you are able to use own initiative in planning and prioritising including being able to prioritise own workload.

You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.

In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working part-time hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:

Nikki Jiggins Stores & Depot Supervisor

Telephone:

Email:

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.

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