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Waste Operations Manager
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About the Role
The Leicestershire County Council is seeking a Waste Operations Officer to assist with the management of waste operations and waste transfer at its Recycling and Household Waste Sites (RHWS) and Waste Transfer Stations (WTS).
The successful candidate will have multiple base locations County Hall, Glenfield and:
Barwell RHWS and Lutterworth RHWS. Travel to and from other locations in Leicestershire may be required, paid in accordance with Council policy.
Candidates must be self-motivated, hard-working, willing to learn and have good customer care skills.
The successful candidate will manage the performance of waste sites and will manage a team of supervisors and operatives based at RHWSs and WTSs.
The role is very much a hands-on management role. It will require travelling to the Council's RHWSs and WTSs daily to undertake:
- HR related tasks (supporting the onboarding process for new starters, undertaking one to ones, return to works, Annual Performance Reviews, intermediate policy processes such as writing and implementing support plans and personal risk assessments, occupational health referrals and undertaking investigations into disciplinary and attendance or poor performance)
- Drafting of, monitoring and enforcing the Council's safe systems of work and risk assessments for all site operations
- Ensuring records for waste movements are accurate and appropriately filed and that waste transfer paperwork is compliant with the sites' Environmental Permit and the Waste Duty of Care
- Drafting of processes, monitoring and enforcing the Council's Quality Management System
- Effective and efficient stock control of consumables, PPE & Uniform, equipment and fuel
About You
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- A valid relevant Certificate of Technical Competence or the desire, willingness and ability to work towards gaining this qualification within a reasonable time
- Good experience in the management of waste operations with very good experience in the supervision and management of teams of employees in the waste management industry or similar workplace
- To have good communication skills including the ability to negotiate, resolve issues and to achieve successful outcomes and to be able to effectively engage with customers, and in resolving customer issues
- A good knowledge of site operations and environmental maintenance / compliance and a strong knowledge and understanding of Health and Safety on waste sites
- Intermediate experience level with Microsoft packages, standard IT equipment and industry standard software, with good organisational and interpersonal skills and can prioritise effectively
- The ability to travel to locations across the County as required (access to an appropriate vehicle with business use insurance)
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Rebecca Hollick –
Tel: 0116 3055767,
Email:
section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: .
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