We are now recruiting a Team Manager to join a team of four other Team Managers to jointly take responsibility for the day to day management of the service, ensuring that it operates safely, efficiently and effectively. The team is responsible for delivering a range of waste & recycling collections and street cleansing, ensuring a high standard of customer care and value for money are achieved.
Working as part of the operational team within the Greater Cambridge Shared Waste Service (a strategic partnership between Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council), you will provide a comprehensive waste collection service for over 125,000 households. You will help manage 150 drivers and operatives to deliver professional and efficient, high quality domestic and trade collection services across the whole area and street cleansing in South Cambridgeshire.
As the successful candidate you will be able to demonstrate experience of waste collection/street cleansing supervision and will need to be suitably qualified and experienced in managing teams of staff providing high profile frontline services.
You will keep and maintain impeccable work records, which may be subject to scrutiny at any time.
A key role is to establish responsibilities, objectives, accountabilities and measures, by agreement and delegation to your team. You will be actively involved in shaping service development.
You will need to be resilient to the pressures of a frontline service role, pro-active and a problem solver. You will be assertive, flexible and approachable; and able to motivate your team to continuously improve.
For an informal conversation about this new opportunity, working environment and additional benefits we offer, please contact Mike Parsons, Waste Operations Manager on 01954 713616
Closing date: 9am on Wednesday 5 September 2018
Full time permanent contract
