Senior Operations & Contracts Manager

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Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RJ

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £37,410 - £40,083 per annum (pro-rata for part time)

Working Hours: 14.8 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 17th June 2024

Interview Date(s): TBC

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.

This is a part time role working 2 days per week (with flexibility on those 2 days), with the potential for additional ad hoc hours.

Please note, previous applicants need not apply.

About the Role

As the successful candidate, you will become an essential member of the Waste Delivery Team. You will: -

• Manage and procure contracts (service and sales) for RHWS and WTS operations, including preparing contract documentation in accordance with EU legislation and County Council procedures.
• Oversee site and service provision.
• Coordinate a preventative and reactive repair and maintenance programme for site infrastructure (buildings, retaining walls, drainage etc) and site equipment (static compactors, roll on roll off containers, mobile plant, signage etc).
• Assist with ensuring compliance with Environmental Permits (and other relevant Environmental Legislation), planning permissions, trade effluent discharge consents, Health and Safety legislation and Council Policies and procedures.
• Monitor and manage repairs & maintenance and environmental management budgets.
• Lead on the customer interface, preparing and responding verbally and in writing to service queries and Corporate Complaints.

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. 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.
• Hold a 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, equality, diversity and inclusion.

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

Email: paul.mcmorran@leics.gov.uk

Tel: 0116 3058100

Or

Luke Crown

Team Manager, Waste Contracts and Compliance

Email: luke.crown@leics.gov.uk

Tel: 0116 3050597

How to Apply

Please apply sending us your CV as well a supporting statement, detailing how you meet the requirements of the post. The supporting statement should be no longer than 500 words and be incorporated into your CV, to form a single document.

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on 'Apply Now'. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply 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: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Stonewall Top 100, Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

Our Recruitment Process
Our Organisational Values
Our Employee Benefits
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