Streetsweeper/Driver

Job Title: Streetsweeper/Driver
Location: Earlswood Depot
Salary: £25,581.00 (plus 7% early start payment)
Hours: 36 hours per week, 5 days including a Saturday or Sunday, 06:00 – 13:45
Contract: Permanent, Full Time

About the role
Do you love working in the outdoors? Then this is the job is for you. We are now recruiting for a Streetsweeper/Driver to carry out sweeping and other general cleansing duties in the Borough.

Some of the duties include:

• Driving ‘compact’ Sweeper (Subject to training and gaining appropriate licence)
• Undertake, working alone or as part of a team, the cleansing of highways and other areas.
• Litter-picking
• Manual Sweeping
• Driving 3.5 cwt Pickup Truck
• Utilise ‘Orderly Barrow’
• Litter Bin emptying
• Graffiti removal
• Collecting & Removing Fly-tipping
• Other General Cleansing Work

Essential criteria

A current clean driving license is essential for driving 3.5 cwt trucks and for driving a precinct mechanical sweeper, appropriate training will be required.

Closing date: Wednesday 24^th June at 23:59*

Interview date: To be confirmed

Staff Benefits

In exchange for your expertise, experience and enthusiasm, we will offer support in continuing your personal and career development, in addition to providing a wide range of employment linked benefits.

We provide you with competitive annual leave and contribute 22.10% towards the LGPS pension scheme. You will also have access to a range of discounts including local and high street stores, and salary sacrifice schemes including a cycle lease scheme, and ‘Better’ leisure centre membership.

Additional information

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, supporting the guaranteed interview scheme for disabled and ex-armed forces candidates, who meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand that some applicants may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist with preparing their applications. All submitted information—whether supported by AI or not—must accurately reflect the applicant’s own skills, experience, and qualifications. Recruitment decisions will be based on how well applicants demonstrate these attributes during the interview and selection process.

Values and Behaviours

Our great working environment and the values and behaviours of every individual and team in the Council, help to evolve the culture of our organisation to become more commercial, innovative, and embracing of change.

Successful applicants to our career opportunities will be able to demonstrate they share the values and behaviours we seek in our organisation.

Local Government Reorganisation

Reigate and Banstead Borough Council is part of the government’s plans for Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) scheduled to take place in April 2027. This means the current two-tier system, where services are split between Surrey County Council and district and borough councils like Reigate, will be replaced with two unitary councils made up of East and West Surrey, which will handle all local services. Reigate and Banstead Borough Council will form part of the new East Surrey unitary authority. 

Although this may lead to some uncertainty for anyone considering a role with us, this process will take some time and during that time we still need to provide services. When local government is reorganised, most staff will transfer to the new council(s) which may offer additional opportunities for career development and variety as part of a larger organisation.

Further information on LGR can be found here: Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) and Devolution | Reigate and Banstead

See 'Who we are' as a council, to find out more about us.

*On the occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order for us to manage all of the applicants appropriately.