Street Scene Officer

Cyngor Sir Ceredigion County Council; Wales; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A county council in Wales is seeking an enthusiastic Street Scene Officer to join its team. The role focuses on encouraging residents to recycle, ensuring business compliance with waste regulations, and investigating related nuisances. Ideal candidates will be passionate about the environment with strong communication skills. Responsibilities also include promoting community initiatives and maintaining a clean local environment. The council offers a supportive work culture with various employee benefits.

Benefits

Work-life balance

Lifestyle savings scheme

Generous employer pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Learning and development

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic person passionate about the environment.
• Great communication and negotiating skills.
• Self-starter.

Responsibilities

• Encourage residents to recycle more of their waste.
• Ensure businesses comply with waste regulations.
• Investigate waste-related nuisances.
• Promote Caru Ceredigion.
• Maintain a clean and healthy local environment.

Job description

We operate a bilingual policy. All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our Street Scene service.

Our ideal candidate would be passionate about the environment, want to help keep Ceredigion looking its best and help us to increase the county’s recycling record.

As a Street Scene Officer, you would encourage residents to recycle more of their waste, ensure businesses are complying with waste regulations, investigate waste related nuisances, promote Caru Ceredigion and help maintain Ceredigion’s clean and healthy local environment.

As a self-starter with great communication and negotiating skills you could help make a difference.

What we offer

• Work-life balance
• Lifestyle savings scheme
• Generous employer pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Learning and development

Where you'll work

Highways and Environmental

We deliver efficient, sustainable and bilingual services to the people of Ceredigion, promoting well-being in our communities, pride in a healthy well-kept environment, and confidence in our local economy.

Our key responsibilities include:

• Encourage residents to recycle more of their waste
• Ensure businesses are complying with waste regulations
• Investigate waste related nuisances
• Promote Caru Ceredigion
• Help maintain Ceredigion’s clean and healthy local environment

Highways and Environmental Services:

• Transport Services: Corporate transport; Fleet management; Parking Services; Harbours.
• Highways Maintenance: Cyclic and Routine Maintenance; Emergency response; Highways inspection; Winter service.
• Highways Development: Planning liaison; Road safety; Regional transport; Street lighting; Streetworks; Traffic management; CWIC/NMWTRA; Design supervision; Flood and coastal risk management; Highways improvement.
• Local Environment Services: Waste Collections; Household waste sites; Grounds maintenance; Street cleaning.

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Note: We reserve the right to extend the application closing date.