Waste Team Leader

Are you able to work well under pressure and able to think on your feet?

Are you organised, approachable, resilient, and ready to work with a front-line team delivering statutory services to the residents of North-East Lincolnshire?

Our Purpose

Our mission is to provide a first-class front-line waste and recycling collection service for the residents across North East Lincolnshire.

The Role

You will work as part of a team under the guidance of the Waste Services Manager to develop and deliver efficient waste and recycling collection rounds that deliver agreed outcomes. You will lead and develop both short- and long-term plans for delivering specific operational activities within waste and recycling and ensure effective customer service and continuous improvement.

The role involves shared supervision of approximately 85 employees who work in small teams across the borough collecting waste and recycling, whilst continually reviewing your own and the team's work, developing improvements to processes and systems ensuring efficiency and value for money.

You will be proactive in coordinating the team's daily work allocation, rostering, recruitment, induction, training, and management of holidays and absence under challenging circumstances and often conflicting priorities to ensure waste and recycling services are maintained. The post holder will work to deadlines which can be statutory or organisationally determined and within policies, procedures, and local performance agreements.

Effective communication to all stakeholders is essential.

This is a multi-skilled role that requires both operational and office-based working. Applicants are advised to thoroughly read the role profile for this vacancy.

About You

You must be able to work under pressure and manage sudden unforeseen events within the service, with the ability to prioritise the allocation of work at short notice. Punctuality is essential, and you must be available for an early morning start. Experience of team leading in an operational environment is advantageous; however, we welcome applications from those with the relevant transferable skills. Effective communication to all stakeholders is essential.

This is a multi-skilled role that requires both operational and office-based working.

Full training and support will be given to the successful candidate.

Your Application

All applicants are advised to carefully read the information provided in the Role Profile and Person Specification. If you require an informal discussion about the role, please contact Kate Fox via Kate.Fox@nelincs.gov.uk.

Key Dates
Interview date: TBC

We want you to have the best interview experience with us, so we will provide candidates selected for interview their questions 24 hours in advance of meeting us.

We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications.

As part of your RewardNEL package, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension.

You will also have access to our exclusive RewardNEL platform.

This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our in-house wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking, as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment, and hotels.

NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a fostering-friendly scheme.

Do you need support?

If you need any help applying for this position, please contact Wendy Trask on 07702 338542 (text or call). Wendy can support with digital access as well as offering advice and guidance about completing the different sections of the application form.

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