Operations Assistant (Campus Environment)

About the role:

You will be joining the award-winning UWE Sustainability team. We operate across the whole of the university to reduce environmental impacts, manage and reduce waste and deliver a safe and high-quality external environment for our staff, students and visitors. This dynamic role will focus on keeping waste & recycling collection points clean and materials properly segregated, and assisting in enhancing the quality and safety of our outdoor spaces.

We expect a lot, but we’ll offer a great deal in return. We want to offer you a stimulating and varied role, giving you the opportunity to take pride in your contribution towards the delivery a sustainable university. We will value your input and ideas, are flexible enough to recognise the importance of a work-life balance and are committed to your continued development.

In all our activities we are driven by a culture of continuous improvement, implementing enhancements to our service delivery to enable an exceptional staff and student experience.

About you:

• We are looking for an exceptionally organised and flexible person who can demonstrate that they have a great attention to detail as well as possessing a high level of practical ability. You will be comfortable checking physical spaces to assess the works required, prioritising jobs and communicating your needs and decisions clearly to your supervisor. You will ensure deadlines are met and that campus spaces are always presented to the highest aesthetic standards. A love of working outside is essential, as is the ability to work proactively.
• You will need excellent communications skills and must be comfortable taking the lead in collaborating with colleagues to ensure all jobs are completed by your team. You will often be the first “eyes” on our campus locations every morning and will be relied upon to attend to a variety of tasks with a positive attitude.
• You must be physically fit and active, as the role requires much walking and moving waste and other items around our campuses. Most of the work will be manual based. You may also be required to work on any of our 3 university campuses throughout Bristol from 6am - so an ability to arrive in a timely fashion at various assigned locations is essential to this role.
• You will be quick to learn and happy working manually and with waste materials. You will also be outdoors much of the time and will be ready to work in all weathers.

Why UWE Bristol?

We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.