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Skip Hire Worker

A skip hire worker delivers and collects skips, helps customers with waste and works at the yard sorting and handling rubbish. It is physical, practical work that suits reliable, hardy people who don't mind hard graft and getting mucky.

Skip Hire Worker

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Transport & Logistics

AI IMPACT
AI CAN DO12%moving to57%
THE DOOR, NOWB
THE DOOR, 20 YRSD
STARTING PAYnot published
MOAT NOT YET CLASSIFIEDA real score, but the moat is not yet classified. No claim either way.
AI can do very little of this work today
Hands-on work, caring for people and dealing with the real world are among the hardest things to automate, and this job leans on them. We have not yet formally classified its moat, so we make no claim either way, but the exposure score speaks for itself.

The role

The work is loading, delivering and collecting skips, often driving a lorry with a hydraulic lift, plus sorting waste at the yard for recycling or disposal. Reliability, physical fitness and care around heavy lifting gear and traffic matter, along with being helpful to customers and following the rules on what waste can go where.

The work is heavy, outdoors in all weathers and can be dirty and smelly, often with early starts, and pay usually starts around the minimum wage and rises with the right driving licence. There is steady demand, and holding an HGV licence opens up the better-paid driving side.

No qualifications are needed for yard work and you learn on the job, but delivering skips by lorry needs the right category of HGV licence and a Driver CPC. Waste handling follows strict legal rules, so you learn the regulations as you go.

Daily responsibilities

  • Load, deliver and collect skips
  • Drive the skip lorry where licensed
  • Help customers with waste questions
  • Sort waste for recycling and disposal
  • Follow waste-handling rules
  • Lift and move heavy materials safely
  • Keep the yard and vehicle clean and safe
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