Like most employers, DC Site Services has been waiting on today’s Autumn budget announcement in order to accurately shape the year ahead. As per the last few years, we are committed to paying our crew 50p per hour above the minimum wage. As such, the 2026 crew rate will be £13.21 + £1.59 holiday pay which is a total of £14.80 per hour. Team leaders will receive a slightly larger increase at £14.31 + £1.73 holiday pay which comes to £16.04 per hour. Now the work really begins for the 2026 festiva ... read more

DC Site Services is holding a Christmas crew party at Sadie’s (formerly known as Childers) in Whittlesey (Manor House, 1A Station Rd, Whittlesey, Peterborough PE7 1SA) on Friday the 12th of December and if you have worked with us previously you are welcome to join us. This year’s crew party is a special one as we’ll be holding the first annual Dylan Bennett award. For those of you who didn’t have the pleasure of knowing Dylan, he was a dear friend to us, and one of our most knowledgeable and exp ... read more

Staff Survey Results Newsletter 2025! Thank you to everyone who took part in the 2025 staff survey, your feedback has a direct impact on the direction we take with our policies, and we appreciate you taking the time to participate. The winner of this year's survey is Jordan Southgate! Congratulations, a prize is on its way to you! We’re pleased to share that in a number of categories the feedback received has consistently improved. We’re especially pleased with the following statistics: Last yea ... read more

This November the legendary Blackheath Fireworks will be returning to southeast London after a six-year absence! Between the 1st and the 3rd of November, DC Site Services will be providing waste management services to this much anticipated event. If you’re local, enjoy fireworks and would like to help return the park back to a safe and clean environment, please log into your DCSS PAAM profile to apply. If November is too far away, we have limited positions left for one of our Oktoberfest events ... read more

Without a doubt one of our biggest expenses as a company is restocking uniform. We estimate that by the end of the season, approximately 60% of that year’s uniform top-up is sitting snuggly in someone’s wardrobe at home, or in the boot of their car, completely forgotten about. Well, it’s time to reunite your uniform with its high-vis family. If you have a jacket, tabard, or t-shirt please email the office letting us know exactly what it is you have and we will send a pre-paid envelope out to you ... read more

This weekend our team will be working at the Sausage & Cider Festival in Warwick, bringing the Sausage & Cider festival tour to a close! We’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who joined us over seventeen different locations, spanning five months. Thank you team for all of your hard work! ... read more

Thank you to everyone who has logged in and responded to the Autumn Calendar launch, we’d like to put a spotlight on one event in particular which is just around the corner… Warwick Castle Live! This event is set against the stunning, historical backdrop of Warwick Castle and will showcase electrifying performances from Pet Shop Boys, Bryan Adams, Texas, and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in Concert! We have waste management and cleaning roles available, with shifts between 8 and 10 ho ... read more

This Autumn DC Site Services will kick off the cooler season by concluding the Sausage & Cider festival series, along with the Wingfest events before moving forward into everyone’s favourite spooky month, October. We’ll be working back-to-back Oktoberfest events the entire month, over several locations before heading back to Westfest. However, before we look too far ahead, only three weeks away is a brand new event to the calendar, Warwick Castle Live. Warwick Castle Live will showcase legen ... read more

The Summer may be coming to an end soon but the events and festivals continue for the DC Site Services’ crew as we soon head into Autumn. Next Friday 15th we’ll be launching our Autumn event calendar, sharing with you the work opportunities coming up in the ‘Ber’ months ahead! You’ll see some familiar events as well as a few new ones, and we’ll continue to add them as they come so keep checking back! ... read more

This August DC Site Services will be marching on – in mud-spattered wellies – to the peak of the festival season. We’ll see the final stretch of the Classic Ibiza series, we’ll head back to Bristol for IDLES @ Queen Square and all before working flat out between Leeds festival and the Big Feastival. And what better way to cap off the month with one of the events we kicked the season off with in the Spring, the BBC Gardener’s World Autumn Fair. This is where the second wind kicks in, folks. Anoth ... read more