Waste Performance Officer

The Guildhall Northampton

Towcester

Sur place

GBP 44 000 - 48 000

Plein temps

Il y a 13 jours

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Résumé du poste

West Northamptonshire Council is offering a fixed-term role within the Waste Team to lead and manage waste collection and street cleansing across Towcester and the Daventry area during a transition period. You will oversee service delivery, performance standards, and stakeholder engagement to ensure continuity of essential frontline services.

The role requires a contract management professional with strong technical knowledge of waste and environmental services, capable of coordinating with the

Description du poste

About The Role

We have an exciting opportunity within the Waste Team at West Northamptonshire Council to lead and manage the waste collection and street cleansing services across the Daventry area. The role will oversee these high profile service arrangements during a significant period of transition. The existing Joint Venture (JV) agreement between Norse and West Northants Council is due to end in May 2028, when these services will transfer back into direct Council management. As a result, this is a high profile and challenging role requiring an experienced contract management professional with strong technical knowledge of waste and environmental services, preferably with experience of working within a local authority. This position is offered on a fixed-term basis until 31 May 2028. We encourage applicants to submit a CV and supporting statement demonstrating how they meet the requirements of the role, including their experience of contract management, service delivery, stakeholder engagement, and leading services through periods of change.

What will you be doing?

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring waste collection and street cleansing services are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the required performance standards.
Working closely with the Council's JV partner, you will resolve operational issues, drive service improvements, and respond effectively to matters raised by residents, councillors, and other stakeholders.
You will play a key role in maintaining service continuity while supporting preparations for the future insourcing of these essential frontline services.

Our benefits

You can also see our full list of employee benefits on our careers site here: Why you should work for us | West Northamptonshire Council.

About Us

At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like‑minded people. Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential. We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner.

If you need additional support or reasonable adjustments during the application process, including needing the job description in another format or language, please email careers@westnorthants.gov.uk for support.

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications, so we recommend applying as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

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