Team Leader

Ciwmjobs; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/remote working where possible

Enhanced annual leave

Job summary

Cheshire East Council seeks a Team Leader to plan and organise multiple service teams overseeing waste collections, recycling, and green services. You will manage resources within budget, handle timesheets, agency needs, and absence processes, and ensure daily operation aligns with safety policies and environmental standards.

The role requires strong English communication, frontline supervision experience, and willingness to travel across the borough, with hybrid/remote working options where

Qualifications

• Detailed knowledge of Waste collections, health and safety, environmental and transport legislation and operational practice.
• Thorough knowledge of internal HR and H&S policies and procedures.
• Ability to manage frontline workforce when necessary and relevant supervision with people skills experience.
• The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.
• Flexible approach to work and willingness and ability to travel throughout the Borough.

Responsibilities

• Plan and organise the work of the respective teams including allocation of resources within budget.
• Manage timesheets, agency needs, holidays, sickness and absence processes.
• Collect task sheets and paperwork at end of day and ensure service delivery in line with council policies.

Skills

Waste management knowledge

Health & safety knowledge

People management

Customer service

Job description

Team Leader

You will plan and organise the work of the respective teams including the allocation of human and physical resources within allocated budget parameters, ensuring efficient usage. Dealing with timesheets, identifying the need for agency and covering staff, managing holiday requests, administering sickness and absence processes. Collect in all operational task sheets and associated paperwork at the end of the day etc.

About the role

In this role you will supervise service teams ensuring the development of cost effective and customer focused operational teams engaged in the daily delivery of environment operations within their service area (Refuse, Recycling, Green). Ensuring that all services are delivered in accordance with the Council’s values, beliefs, priorities, policies, procedures and objectives. Ensuring that operations are carried out in a safe manner with regard to health and safety legislation, regulatory compliance and environmental standards.

This is just a snapshot of some of the exciting things you’ll be doing in role, to find out more about the other key responsibilities of the role please view the attached job description.

About you

You will Have:

• Detailed knowledge of Waste collections, health and safety, environmental and transport legislation and operational practice.
• Thorough knowledge of internal HR and H&S policies and procedures
• Ability to manage frontline workforce when necessary and relevant supervision with people skills experience
• The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post
• Flexible approach to work and willingness and ability to travel throughout the Borough
• HGV class 2 vocational licence (Desirable)
• To find out more about the essential and desirable criteria for the role please view the attached job description specification document.

In return we are able to offer:

• Enhanced annual leave - Start with an impressive 34 days of annual leave (including bank holidays) from day one, and watch it grow to 39 days after just five years of service
• Purchase of annual leave – Want more time off? You can purchase up to 10 extra days of annual leave each year, giving you the flexibility to balance work and life just the way you want (Pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Flexible working pattern - Enjoy a 39-hour standard full-time work week with the added perks of flexi-time and hybrid/remote working arrangements where possible. Your work-life balance just got a whole lot better
• Salary sacrifice green car scheme - Drive green and save green! Lease a brand-new electric or hybrid car through our salary sacrifice scheme. There’s no credit checks, no deposits, just significant savings and exclusive offers on a three-year lease
• White goods salary sacrifice scheme - Upgrade your home with ease. Purchase home and electronic items through our salary sacrifice scheme, spreading the cost of big-ticket purchases like appliances, computers, and tech gadgets directly from your salary
• Enhanced public pension - Secure your future with our career average pension, where contributions are built at a rate of 1/49th of your yearly pensionable pay
• Cycle to work scheme - Save up to 25-39% on the retail price of bikes and safety equipment through Income Tax and National Insurance savings. Get fit and save money!
• Employee assistance programme - Access a completely free and confidential assistance service to help manage, reduce, and overcome life’s challenges, both at work and in your personal life
• Discounted gym membership - Stay active and healthy with corporate membership prices for Everybody Leisure, including:
• Gym, Swim and Group Fitness at all 16 facilities
• Off-Peak Racket Sports
• Athletics Tracks
• Sauna/Steam/Spa
• Join us and experience a workplace that truly values and supports you!

Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.

We are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.

If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.