Soft Landing is a national social enterprise operating across NSW, ACT, VIC and WA.  We divert end of life mattresses from landfill and recovery components to recycle.  For every 45 mattresses that we collect and recycle each day, we can create a job for someone who really needs it.  Soft Landing currently employees 150 staff.

Soft Landing, located in Redhead, NSW provides mattress collection and recycling services across the Newcastle region and beyond.  As demand for our service continues to grow, we require General Hand/Collection Drivers to commence employment as soon as possible.

The General Hand role at Soft Landing includes:

• Manual processing of mattresses and bed bases (this involves cutting away the material from the shell of the unit and separating components that may include latex, foam, husk, steel and timber)

• Riding as offsider on collection runs including loading and unloading of mattresses with attention to safe manual handling

• Preparing separated components for baling or waste disposal

• Correct use and attention to PPE

• Maintaining a tidy and clean working area

• Assisting with balers and presses

• General facility manual tasks including unloading and stacking of mattresses and other recyclable items

• Able to demonstrate and maintain good working relationships with supervisors and fellow workers, including people from different backgrounds and cultures

• Good physical fitness is required, along with flexibility and a sense of pride in what and how you work

• Reliable, motivated and have a good work ethic

• Willing to learn and train in all aspects of what we do

• Able to work independently and as a team player to achieve and maintain daily processing targets.

We are also seeking drivers, so bonus points if you have the following experience:

• Driving MR/HR trucks with trailers in the designated areas collecting mattresses and other recyclable items

• Assisting in the manual loading and unloading of mattresses and other recyclable items

• Recording all information regarding collections to ensure that the data is accurate and well communicated.

Requirements:

• MR/HR Licence desirable

• Experience driving with truck/trailers in and around residential areas

• Good level of physical fitness to get in and out of truck repeatedly

• Able to rotate driving duties with physically demanding manual work daily

• Able to demonstrate and maintain good working relationships with supervisors and fellow workers, including people from different backgrounds and cultures

• Willing to learn and train in all aspects of what we do

• Willing to undertake random site drug and alcohol testing to ensure a safe work environment for all

• Ability to travel to Redhead industrial area

• Forklift licence highly desirable but not essential - training may be offered should your position become permanent.

Casual roles available.  General Hands $36.70 per hour, inclusive of casual loading (Waste Management Award Level 2). Drivers $37.66 per hour inclusive of casual loading (Waste Management Award Level 4). Hours of work are Monday to Friday between 7.00am and 3.00pm. As a not-for-profit organisation we offer salary packaging, which means you can significantly increase your take-home pay.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with different abilities, and people re-entering the workforce. 

Find out more about us by visiting www.communityresources.org.au

Interviews for these positions will commence immediately.

Please click on 'apply' and forward your resume for consideration.