ELV Operative

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Everything must recycle. It’s what we stand for. 

Together we turn today’s materials into tomorrow’s possibilities. Today’s old into tomorrow’s new. Used to useful. Waste into something worthwhile. You could be at the centre of change that will be felt for generations to come, keeping valuable resources in circulation and helping to make circular materials the standard for global industry.

Work this important deserves proper pay and proper benefits. 

• Competitive pay rates and a bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus option to buy or sell
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Employee support - including life assurance and critical illness pay
• Wellbeing scheme - giving colleagues and dependents unlimited access to GPs and counselling, and cash back on health and wellbeing
• 24/7 anonymous health and wellbeing advice
• Financial support - including affordable loans, savings plans, advanced earned pay and education
• Money off shopping, utilities, entertainment and more
• Cycle 2 work scheme
• Get stuck in but never get stuck – ongoing training and development plans tailored to how you want to progress

Applying to a new job is a big decision – even when the company you’re applying to has been voted a Great Place to Work for four years running and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Manufacturing, Production and Transportation. 

ELV Operative 

At EMR, we’re not patting ourselves on the back for being able to recycle, reuse and repurpose most materials within every vehicle – we’re obsessed with getting to 100%.  

If you’re happiest with your head under a bonnet, your mechanical mind might be just what we need to make sure none of these precious materials go to waste and we can leave a legacy that will be felt for generations to come. 

End-of-life (ELV) Operative at EMR: purposeful petrol heads apply today. 

About Our Opportunity 

It’s no secret that combustion engines aren’t doing our planet much good – but we can reuse, repurpose and recycle the materials inside every end-of-life vehicle (ELV), putting them back into the supply chain so that they can become something new tomorrow – meaning mining for materials becomes a thing of the past and our planet can start to rebuild. 

But we need your help to do it. 

What you will be doing 

As an ELV Operative, you’ll become an expert in transforming every part of a car into something more valuable – not simply deconstructing, but also looking for opportunities to save the most possible carbon through reuse and repurposing as well as recycling. 

If you’re looking for a role with endless opportunities for learning and development – you’ve found it. From gaining your FLT license and operating cutting-edge tools and machinery to depollution, health assessments and so much more, this is a position that’s solving tomorrow’s challenges, so it’s only right that you’re trained up in futureproof skills. 

As well as getting your hands dirty recovering vital materials, you’ll be exercising your social muscles – meeting, greeting and helping customers who are bringing their old bangers and write-offs in for responsible recycling. 

About you

We don’t believe in shutting doors on potential, so we don’t ask for qualifications or experience. We can teach you everything you need to know. What we can’t teach is:

• The drive to continuously learn and the competitive spirit that will see you and your team topping the EMR ELV leader board every month
• A desire to provide incredible customer service
• Smiling through all weather conditions
• Getting stuck into hands-on processes, organised production and outside-the-box problem solving
• Mechanical and mathematical competence

If you have these qualities, you’re already well on your way to being an incredible ELV Operative. We’ll happily fill in the gaps by developing your knowledge, skills and expertise on the job. And we won’t stop training you once you’ve reached peak Operative status, because when you work for a global leader in sustainable materials, there is no limit to your career progression.

Who we are

• The products we’ll all need tomorrow depend on us making the most of today’s end-of-life metals, plastics and other materials. 
• Take a car at the end of its life - most people just see a…car at the end of its life.
• We see steel, aluminium, copper, plastics, rubber, glass, parts, fluids, costs, risks, markets and – most importantly - possibilities.

Now, multiply that by thousands of cars – we recover, reuse and recycle all those valuable materials and put them back to work as low-carbon materials for manufacturing, infrastructure, energy and transport.

And that’s just one thing we recycle. Add buildings, factories, ships, railways and industrial equipment. That’s all our hard work – the gritty, practical, commercial, difficult work our 4,000 global colleagues do every day.

Anything from a can to an aircraft carrier can become anything from a bicycle to a building and, at the same time, we help to avoid 19 million tonnes of carbon and 10 million tonnes of waste to landfill, protecting nature, resources and the next generation’s future.

Which is all well and good for us to say, but this is what the real people behind the really hard work think:

• “The people who work here are from varied backgrounds and have a variety of beliefs, all of which are accepted and respected.”
• “I’m encouraged to keep a healthy work-life balance so that I can be performing at my best.”
• “I’ve been supported every step of the way in my career progression.”
• ‘‘EMR offers a fantastic and inclusive environment; collaboration across the whole business, humility and hard work.”

Four years as a certified Great Place To Work is no small feat. Oh, and don’t forget one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Manufacturing, Production and Transportation. That’s pretty good too.

But we can do better. We’re aiming for a place in the top 60 companies in the UK – not for the accolade but for the improvement. A journey you should probably join us for.

If you want to be part of something bigger than yourself, have a role that really makes a difference and work with likeminded people towards the same purpose, this is the role for you.

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