Waste & Transport Manager

Triumph Consultants Ltd | Rugby | findajob.dwp.gov.uk |
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Interim Waste & Transport Manager

Job Ref: Rugby (HQ) 17745
Pay Rate: £28.32 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 1 month, likely to be extended
City: Rugby

The purpose of the role is to lead and manage the waste, recycling and street cleansing services delivered by the Council. These services currently consist of household and commercial waste and recycling collections, street cleansing and cleaning activities, deep cleansing and rapid response, bulky waste, fly-tipping, flyposting, and graffiti.

Key Responsibilities:

Be the Council’s lead officer and subject matter expert in all matters relating to the services.
Lead and manage all matters relating to Council Transport including Fleet, Municipal Vehicles and Workshop services, ensuring statutory compliance, service efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Lead on the continual improvement of the services, with statutory compliance, service efficiency and customer satisfaction being the key measurements of performance.
Effectively lead and manage all day-to-day operations including financial and human resources matters.
Manage and be accountable for the Council’s waste and transport services, ensuring alignment with the Council’s corporate objectives.
Manage and be accountable for the strategic planning, H&S and legal compliance, improvement plans and performance standards for the Council’s waste services and transport / fleet management operations.
Manage, monitor and progress all internal and external contracts associated with the provision of waste and transport services.
Be responsible for the efficient and effective operation of waste and transport services, including the organisation, management and engagement of the workforce.
Be responsible for business development and revenue growth for waste and transport services to commercial organisations.
Anticipate and translate changes in legislation relating to waste and transport services, implementing changes as required.
Manage and be responsible for the operational use of the Hunters Lane depot, including all aspects relating to Health and Safety and Safe Working Practices.
Manage and be responsible for the management, operation, H&S and legal compliance of the Council’s waste transfer station, in line with all relevant legislation.
Manage and be accountable for the Council’s waste transfer station, vehicles, plant and equipment assets ensuring alignment with the Council’s corporate priorities, ensuring financial efficiency, H&S and legal compliance.
Create and manage a vehicle replacement programme, ensuring that capital finance requirements are evidenced and reported in advance to support this programme.

NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF.

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates.
If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.

Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

Qualifications:

OCR Level 3 Certificate of Professional Competence In National Road Haulage or equivalent.
CoTC / WAMITAB qualification (level 4).
Qualification in Leadership and management (ILM) level 5 (or similar) or willingness to work towards and achieve the qualification within 12 months of appointment.

Skills & Experience:

Significant management experience in both or either, waste/recycling service or fleet/transport management service, to include a maintenance service
Significant experience of leading, motivating and managing a large and diverse workforce.
Able to communicate effectively and appropriately to meet the needs of different audiences including staff, colleagues, general public, Councillors, MP’s.
Able to work collaboratively, building professional working relationships across departmental and organisational boundaries with other council departments and of working successfully in partnership with external partners.
To exert influence upon and successfully negotiate with others within complex and sometimes competing environments.
Commercial acumen and able to learn from best practice to implement new service delivery models and generate income.
Able to manage large budgets and ensure appropriate financial control.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

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Job Ref: Rugby (HQ) 17745

Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.

We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.

Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.
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