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Occupation

Recycling operatives

Recycling operatives prepare and sort materials or products for recycling. This may involve identifying and removing hazardous substances as well as dismantling components of products, such as household appliances.

Based on analysing 1022 job ads this job spends 40.4% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 7 skills asked for, of which 12.8% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £19,500 - £21,255.

Top regions

At the point of upload, job adverts are tagged with a specific location. These locations are standardised to ITL 2 (International Territory Levels) codes. For each ITL region, we divide the proportion of job adverts for an occupation by the proportion for all occupations - this gives us a measure of which regions have proportionally more or less job adverts for each occupation - we call this the "location quotient". We display the ITL regions with the highest location quotients for this occupation.

Devon
Eastern Scotland
East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
East Anglia
Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire

Top green skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the green skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for green skills for this occupation.

Identify new recycling opportunities

Found in 97 job ads (13.5%)

Operate recycling processing equipment

Found in 69 job ads (9.6%)

Collect broken appliances

Found in 66 job ads (9.2%)

Coordinate shipments of recycling materials

Found in 45 job ads (6.3%)

Store sorted waste

Found in 43 job ads (6.0%)

Top skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for skills (green or not) for this occupation.

Work in textile manufacturing teams

Found in 118 job ads (1.7%)

Planning and scheduling events and activities

Found in 118 job ads (1.7%)

Communication

Found in 114 job ads (1.7%)

Work independently

Found in 113 job ads (1.7%)

Disposing of non-hazardous waste or debris

Found in 101 job ads (1.5%)

Industries

We extract industry information from job adverts using the way the company is described in the advert. We display the most common industries job adverts in this occupation are linked to.

Wholesale of waste and scrap

Found in 191 job ads (33.9%)

Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery

Found in 98 job ads (17.4%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 70 job ads (12.4%)

Waste collection

Found in 49 job ads (8.7%)

Recovery of sorted materials

Found in 19 job ads (3.4%)
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About this analysis

This analysis has been compiled by measuring the greenness of online job adverts. You can read more about the methodology here.