Team Leader

Fcc Environment; City Of London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days leave

Pension scheme

Life insurance

Training & progression

Recognition scheme

Refer a friend

Flexible benefits

Wellbeing support

Job summary

FCC Environment is seeking a Team Leader to oversee daily site operations in the UK. You will lead the site team, ensure health and safety for staff, contractors and visitors, and drive waste reuse and recycling initiatives.

The role emphasises strong customer service and effective communication to support contract objectives. You will manage waste streams, supervise onboarding and training of new staff, and maintain rigorous checks and safety compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience within a customer-focused service delivery environment.
• Experience of managing a team.
• Knowledge of waste management and different waste streams.
• Excellent customer service and communication skills.
• Good organisational skills.
• A hardworking and trustworthy approach.
• The ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.
• A flexible attitude to support the needs of the contract.
• A commitment to promoting a positive health and safety culture.
• Willingness and ability to work weekends.
• Ability to work in adverse weather conditions.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day site operations and communicate instructions from the Management Team.
• Ensure different waste streams are correctly segregated into containers.
• Assist members of the public with separating their waste and advising on recycling.
• Ensure waste, including hazardous waste, is stored safely and per permit requirements.
• Keep the site clean, tidy and presentable.
• Promote high standards of health, safety and environmental compliance.
• Ensure reporting procedures are understood and followed.
• Train new employees and agency staff on daily site duties.
• Track site stock, PPE and tools and reorder as required.
• Complete daily to annual checks within required timeframes.
• Ensure compliance with PPE and site requirements by all personnel.

Skills

Team management

Customer service

Waste management

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Health & safety

Initiative

Flexible attitude

Weekend work

Weather resilience

Job description

As a Team Leader at FCC Environment, you will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the site, ensuring the health and safety of staff, contractors and visitors, minimising the impact on the environment and delivering excellent customer service. You will also lead the site team and help to maximise reuse and recycling., Leading the team through daily site operations and communicating instructions from the Management Team.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring different waste streams are correctly segregated into the appropriate containers.
• Assisting members of the public with separating their waste and providing general advice about recycling.
• Ensuring waste, including hazardous waste, is stored safely and appropriately in accordance with permit requirements.
• Ensuring the site remains clean, tidy and presentable.
• Promoting and maintaining high standards of health, safety and environmental compliance across the site.
• Ensuring accident, incident and near-miss reporting procedures are understood and followed.
• Training new employees and agency staff on their daily site duties.
• Keeping track of site stock, including PPE and tools, and ordering items as required.
• Ensuring waste tickets, Waste Transfer Notes and Consignment Notes are completed correctly.
• Ensuring all required daily, weekly, monthly, six-monthly and annual checks are completed within the correct timeframes.
• Ensuring employees, contractors and visitors comply with the appropriate PPE and site requirements.

Experience of working within the waste industry or a similar sector.

Qualifications

• Experience within a customer-focused service delivery environment.
• Experience of managing a team.
• Knowledge of waste management and different waste streams.
• Excellent customer service and communication skills.
• Good organisational skills.
• A hardworking and trustworthy approach.
• The ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.
• A flexible attitude to support the needs of the contract.
• A commitment to promoting a positive health and safety culture.
• Willingness and ability to work weekends.
• Ability to work in adverse weather conditions.

We are FCC Environment, one of the nation's leading waste and resource management companies. Committed to sustainability, we strive to minimise the amount of waste that ends up in landfill by transforming it into valuable resources wherever possible.

We operate over 200 facilities in England, Scotland and Wales and employ around 4,500 people.

The profile of the UK's recycling and waste management industry has never been higher. We need people who are up for the challenge to help us tackle climate change. We need people with ideas. We need you. Together we will meet the UK's waste management and energy recovery needs.

FCC Environment is an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity and we are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment.

Competitive salary

• 28 days' annual leave (full-time working)
• Pension scheme
• Life insurance
• On-the-job training and progression
• Recognition scheme
• Refer a friend
• Flexible benefits, including high street savings, cycle to work scheme and Gymflex membership, and many more (where applicable)
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and the Best Doctors Service via our Wellbeing Platform