Recycling & Waste Operations Manager (maternity cover) - M6824

Contract Type: Fixed term – maternity cover

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Are you a driven and experienced Recycling & Waste Operations Manager?

Can you use your positivity and passion to make a difference to the lives of residents and visitors of Colchester?

Do you want to work for a multi-award-winning organisation with great staff benefits and career opportunities?

About us

Neighbourhood Services, implemented in 2019, brought together Colchester City Council’s most high-profile services. From collecting recycling and rubbish, to street cleansing and maintaining numerous parks and open spaces across the City, Neighbourhood Services delivers some of the Council's most visible services to all residents and visitors of Colchester.

The Recycling & Waste Service is delivered in-house from our Shrub End depot and collects bins from over 85,000 homes, with a workforce of over 150 people, and a fleet of more than 40 vehicles. It is one of the most important services that the Council delivers, that touches every resident in Colchester.

2023 is an important year for the Recycling & Waste Service, seeing significant changes to the way it is delivered, matching the demand of an ever growing, vibrant, new City, and with the task of delivering that service in an ever-challenging financial environment. The service is also preparing itself to address proposed changes to legislation, whilst ensuring we are doing all we can to meet our ambitious environmental targets.

However, with a hardworking and passionate team, it is set to be an exciting and transformative year, with you, helping us lead the way.

Job description

Key responsibilities include:

• To project manage transformation projects developed through the emerging Recycling & Waste strategy to enable the service to operate effectively.
• To influence and inspire cultural and behavioural change within the service to support changes through the emerging strategy.
• To ensure that the Recycling & Waste Service operates within all legislative, regulations, along with changes proposed in forthcoming legislation, to ensure high levels of compliance and assurance.
• To ensure high standards of performance, in particular to health, safety and wellbeing of team members, to ensure high levels of compliance and assurance.
• To ensure that the Recycling & Waste Service operates within budget requirements to ensure high levels of assurance.
• To create clear plans at the end of the placement term to ensure a smooth transition.
• To work alongside the other Neighbourhood Service Operation Managers to problem solve daily issues and ensure the wider Service is delivered in the most effective way.

Why work with us?

We pride ourselves on our inclusive and supportive staff culture. As a member of the team, you would have access to various benefits, including:

• Attractive local government pension scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement

Discounts and cashback on purchases at many nationwide services and retailers, but not limited to:

Healthcare providers including BUPA, Denplan Lucent Direct 2022and Simplyhealth

• Supermarkets such as Asda, Sainsbury’s, and Tesco
• Restaurants such as Pizza Express, Zizzi, TGI Fridays, Harvester, Miller and Carter, Ask, Turtle Bay, Pizza Hut, All Bar One and Costa.
• Entertainment such as Cineworld, Ticketmaster, Odeon and Buyagift.com
• Home and Garden stores such as B&Q, IKEA, and Wickes
• Fashion outlets such as Asos, Matalan, and Primark
• Sports and leisure facilities such as Leisure World Colchester and Colchester Sports Park.

Qualifications, skills and experience

Applicants must have:

• WAMITAB COTC Level 4 – Managing Transfer Non- Hazardous Waste, and/or
• Management qualification (or working towards), and/or
• Transport Managers Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC), and/or
• Degree or relevant experience
• Experience of waste and environmental legislation
• Experience of managing 150+ workforce and £1m+ budget

How to apply

For a friendly chat about the role, please contact our retained consultant Jack Metcalfe at WasteRecruit via telephone on 01252 353 080 or via email at jack@wasterecruit.com

Colchester City Council has a wide range of services and facilities that can involve dealing with children or vulnerable adults. We treat our obligations for the safety of children and vulnerable adults seriously and expect our staff to be committed to the principles of our published policies and to adhere to the procedures contained within them.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are signed up to the Disability Confident employer scheme. We also particularly welcome applicants from woman, candidates from a diversity of backgrounds and from all sections of the community, as they are currently under-represented in this area of the organisation.

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Salary: £38,993.75-£43,534.21 per year

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: M6824