HGV Multi-Skilled Operative
Location: Rainham, Essex
Salary: £42,000 - £47,000 plus overtime
Contract: Permanent and full time, 48 hours per week
Hours: Monday to Friday, with evening and weekend overtime opportunities
Our client is a well-established, national provider of environmental and industrial services, with a strong reputation for delivering high-quality, compliant solutions across a broad range of sectors. Operating from a network of depots across the UK, they specialise in environmental protection, asset maintenance, and emergency response, supporting both commercial and public sector clients with a professional, can-do approach.
Based at the company’s Rainham depot, this is a varied, hands-on role sitting within a busy technical operations team. As a HGV Multi-Skilled Operative, you will play a key part in the day-to-day delivery of environmental and industrial services across client sites. You’ll be expected to work both independently and as a part of a team, representing the company professionally on site and contributing to a wide range of planned and reactive works.
About the role:
- Operating company HGV and other vehicles in a safe and compliant manner, including adherence to tachograph regulations
- Completing daily vehicle checks and reporting any defects to supervisors promptly
- Carrying out high pressure water jetting and industrial cleaning duties
- Responding to spills and emergency clean-ups using specialist equipment and resources
- Installing, servicing, inspecting, and decommissioning of interceptors and storage tanks
- Undertaking groundworks, remediation, and civils project support
- Preparing surfaces and spray lining using specialised equipment
- Uplifting and offloading materials in a compliant and safe manner
- Completing job reports on site, with all relevant information
- Communicating with customers on site and identifying opportunities to recommend additional services
- Participating in a standby/call-out rota, including occasional evening, weekend and away working
About you:
- Valid UK HGV Class 2 license with ideally zero points (up to 6 points may be considered)
- Must be willing to comply with both a DBS check and drug and alcohol screening
- Previous experience in a similar environmental, industrial, or multi-skilled operative role
- Experienced in completing RAMS documentation
- A flexible, can-do attitude with the ability to adapt to emergency and reactive works
- Strong team player, capable of supporting colleagues under pressure
- Right to work in the UK
Desirable but not essential:
- Valid ADR license
- Previous experience operating plant machinery
- CPCS/NPORS Excavator cert
What makes this role so great?
- Competitive starting salary of £42,000 to £47,000
- Regular overtime potential to uplift earnings further
- Permanent, full time role with a stable, growing national business
- Genuine variety of work – no two days are the same!
- Opportunities to develop skills across multiple disciplines and gain additional qualifications
- Supportive team environment
If you enjoy varied and hands on work and have a valid HGV 2 license please apply or contact us directly for a confidential conversation
