Post title: Team Leader - Commercial Waste & Recycling Promotion
Post number: PL.0627-V4
Salary: £39,513 - £43,693 per year
Job description: Team Leader - Commercial Waste & Recycling Promotion (PL.0627-V4) Job description ( PDF, 273 KB ) Directorate/department: Place
Apply online now for post PL.0627-V4 Closing date: 11.59pm, 5 March 2025
Further informationThe Waste Management service provides in-house waste collections for over 110,000 domestic properties and a significant proportion of the area's businesses. The Service also manages five Recycling Centres and a transfer station which processes, bulks, and transfers all waste collected/received.
The existing service provision is one of the most efficient and highest performing in Wales, and this new role is critical to maintaining and building upon this foundation. The successful candidate will oversee and coordinate commercial waste customers and their collections. The successful candidate will also be responsible for designing and implementing promotion schemes for domestic recycling collections.
Ideally, you will have substantial practical experience in stakeholder engagement and effective change management as the Service seeks to improve its efficiency, and recycling performance, whilst reducing its carbon footprint.
Key qualities for this position also include:
- Excellent relationship building and communication skills
- Good knowledge of Welsh Government's waste legislation and guidelines, and upcoming circular economy initiatives, and
- Innovative thinking and a can-do attitude.
Reporting to the Group Leader Waste Management, and as part of the Waste Leadership Team covering Operations, Contract & Procurement, Recycling Promotion & Commercial Waste, Enforcement, and Finance & Business Support, the ability to work as part of a team is as important as also being able to work autonomously.
We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging
When applying for the post please ensure you demonstrate how your knowledge, skills and experience meet the requirements detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification. If you wish to discuss the role you may contact Matthew Perkins, Group Leader and recruiting manager via: matthew.perkins@swansea.gov.uk
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