We have opportunities for people who want to keep fit, or even people who want to get fit, to join our team collecting recycling and rubbish in the Auckland region.

Working for Rubbish Direct, helping us deliver what our customers pay us for:

Clean & Tidy Rubbish Rooms, On Time, Every Time.

We don’t sit in a truck all day operating a side arm or a set of forks on top of the truck, we get out of the cab at each and every customer, we go and get their bins, bring them to the truck, empty them and then take them back.

On drivers walk on average 10,000 steps per day, pulling full bins and returning empty ones, this amount of physical and aerobic activity will ensure your fitness level is tip top!

Click to watch video – How does this work?

Well working for the Rubbish Direct team means you will be up before the birds and home before the school kids.

We start between 2.30 and 3.30am and your day will be about 10 hours long, a bit less once you get the hang of it and move a bit quicker.

As our customers need us 365 days per year so we work 365 days per year, of course we do not expect you to work 7 days a week, but to start with you will need to be able to work weekends and have your days off during the week.

Rubbish Direct is an Auckland based collector of rubbish and recycling that started out in 1999 with 1 truck, 1 person and 20 bins, we now have over 50 trucks, more than 100 staff and thousands of bins, so the growth says it all, we are providing a service the market wants and we do it quite simply by putting our customer’s requirements at the center of everything we do.

Click to watch video – Who is Rubbish Direct

Our belief is that if you stand for nothing you will fall for anything.

Values help us make decisions, they are our moral compass if you like, our values are written to be understood in plain language and to be lived by everyone of us.

• Our customers depend on us, don’t let them down – they pay the wages.
• Do it properly or don’t do it at all – there is no traffic on the extra mile.
• Be safe – look after yourself and watch out for everyone else.
• We find solutions, not problems – attitude is everything.
• Everyone is in the marketing department.

As you can see, even I am in the marketing department.

We believe our business is as good as our people, so we bend over backwards for our people, that looks like this:

• FREE Hot Meals
  Hot food / meals available for all staff, every day from 10.30 to 3pm.
• A $5,000 long service bonus every 5 years
  At Rubbish Direct loyalty counts for a lot, so we recognise the value of loyalty by rewarding all our staff with a $5,000 long service bonus every 5 years.
• Annual Profit Share
  An equal share in the profit pool for everyone who contributed for the year (FYI this was over $5k each this year).
• Health Insurance
  Southern Cross healthcare after 6 months.
• Staff Welfare
  Staff welfare scheme to help out with emergency expenses.

Well, we also believe that the harder you work the luckier you get, so we pay our drivers a daily rate, that way those who work faster and think more get rewarded more.

For example, we design our runs so they can be completed by an “average” driver in 10 hours, some of our drivers will do their day in 8 or 8.5 hours, so they get the benefit of being quicker. Gone are the days when a slow driver gets paid more for being slow on a hourly rate!

We like skin in the game, ours and yours, ours comes from the 3-5 weeks training we have to invest in you, yours comes from starting on $300 a day and then once you have learnt your run and get the hang of it this will increase to $320 a day. Currently our top drivers are on over $350 a day.