Yard Operative

Here at Banner Plant, we operate a highly successful Plant Hire Business. Our fleet consists of exciting modern machines imperative to building today’s sleek skylines, utilities and infrastructure sectors.
Due to continued success and business growth, we are looking for a Yard Operative to join our friendly team in Dronfield.
The Role
You will be responsible for the maintenance and management of the yard, supporting with the safe preparation, loading, and unloading of equipment; whilst at the same time adhering to the company’s health, safety, and compliance requirements.
Key Responsibilities:

• You will ensure that the yard is maintained, kept tidy, clean and in accordance with company presentation standards and legal requirements
• Operate the necessary and appropriate machinery as required to satisfy the effective running of the yard
• Utilise equipment and materials as advised under manufacturer instructions and within the legal and compliance requirements
• Maintain stock levels in the yard and support with stock takes
• Receive equipment on the return to yard and complete collection notes; recording any damage and fuel required
• Ensure the refuse bins are emptied
• Clean equipment internally and externally
• Refuel equipment and record any fuel used
• Work in close partnership with the Hire Manager / Workshop Manager to ensure work is prioritised in line with hire schedules

About You
As part of our successful depot team, the successful applicant will demonstrate:

• Experience of working on general construction plant equipment
• The ability to communicate well within a team
• A strong commitment towards safe working practices
• An ability to create a climate conducive to high motivation and productivity whilst maintaining effective working relationships

We are passionate about our people, and we are committed to your career development with us. You will have full access to our learning and development team, and we encourage you to consider your own training desires and make suggestions. We pride ourselves on fully supporting you to undertake training and education to achieve your goals and objectives.
Our Offer
We believe that we have a competitive and progressive benefits package to help shape and support you both inside and outside of work:

• We pay you a competitive salary – we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and gender pay parity;
• We will provide you with access to electric and hybrid vehicle leasing through our salary sacrifice scheme;
• We share our financial success with our bonus scheme;
• We invest in your future with our pension plan provided by AVIVA;
• We protect your loved ones by providing a life assurance benefit based on multiples of salary;
• We support you when you might have health concerns for you or your family with our AVIVA Digital GP app;
• We will help you manage the balance of work and home with agile working (where possible) and flexibility to ensure that you can be there for those important life events;
• We give you 22 days of annual leave, with the ability to buy additional leave;
• We support a full business closure between Christmas and New Year, which does not require you to use your annual leave entitlement;
• We give you enhanced pay if you take leave due to becoming a parent however you become a parent;
• We support your career aspirations; we are committed to personal growth and internal talent development;
• We offer you access to our Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme, which includes access to e-bikes;
• We support you at times when you need external support with our Employee Assistance Programme.

About Us
Banner Plant is a long-established plant hire company offering a wide range of products and services for hire and sale. Our head office is in Dronfield, on the edge of Sheffield, with hire centres located in Dronfield (Sheffield), Chesterfield, Derby, Leeds, Leicester, Rotherham and Ossett.
We’re part of the Henry Boot Group of Companies. We’ve defined what makes working with us so special in our unique initiative, the ‘Henry Boot Way’. This influences our culture and how we do things and strengthens the relationship between employer and employee.
Equality and Diversity
Since 1886 our business has always put our people first, so we’re totally committed to offering an equal opportunity to every individual who joins us.
The Henry Boot Group of Companies reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Job Type: Permanent