An exciting new opportunity has arisen within the Waste Delivery team at Leicestershire County Council.
We are looking to recruit a part time, Senior Operations & Contracts Manager with experience in contract management who can support the management of Leicestershire County Council’s Recycling and Household Waste Sites (RHWS) and Waste Transfer Station (WTS) on-site operations.
About the Role
As the successful candidate, you will become an essential member of the Waste Delivery Team. You will manage and operate contracts for RHWS and WTS operations; oversee site provision, operation and maintenance including operational equipment, legal consents, and other maintenance as well as monitor compliance at RHWS and WTS sites in accordance with relevant legislation.
Additionally, you will prepare contract documentation in accordance with EU legislation and County Council procedures, manage and monitor budgets and lead on the customer interface. You will also manage staff, including undertaking annual performance reviews and will support the Team Manager(s) as required.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Hold a relevant degree or equivalent experience in waste management, contract management or procurement and hold a COTC (or be willing to work towards) and be a member of the CIWM (or willing to work towards)
- Have experience in budget management including monitoring and planning abilities.
- Be confident in effectively engaging with customers as well as dealing with media and publicity related to service issues.
- Have good knowledge of site operations and environmental compliance including waste legislation and environmental standards.
- Demonstrate effective leadership including excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to negotiate, shape and influence as well as work to tight timescales.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to equal opportunities and can apply this to all situations.
- Be able to travel to locations across the County as required and perform all duties and tasks with reasonable adjustment, where appropriate, in accordance with the provision of the Equality Act 2010.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values 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 Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Paul McMorran, Team Manager, Waste Operations
Telephone: 0116 3058100
Email: paul.mcmorran@leics.gov.uk
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