Waste Team Leader

Chemring Countermeasures; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Chemring Countermeasures is seeking a Waste Operations Supervisor to coordinate daily waste activities, ensuring safe disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste across the site. You will work with the Safety team to maintain regulatory compliance and drive continual improvement.

You will develop and maintain waste-related documentation, manage waste-related visitors and contractors, and prepare KPI reports while ensuring high standards of housekeeping and cost-effective waste management.

Qualifications

• Right to live and work in the UK.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in waste management or similar role.
• Knowledge of hazardous and non-hazardous waste handling and regulatory requirements.
• Proven supervisory or team leader experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate and facilitate daily waste operations to ensure safe and efficient service delivery.
• Ensure waste handling, storage, labelling, and disposal complies with procedures and regulations.
• Maintain housekeeping and organisation across waste and recycling areas.
• Monitor waste volumes and coordinate collections with accurate documentation.
• Manage waste-related visitors/contractors, including permit-to-work processes.
• Develop and maintain waste QMS documents and deliver training.
• Respond to waste incidents and support emergency procedures.
• Support audits of waste storage and burning ground.
• Identify opportunities for waste minimisation and cost savings.

Skills

Waste management experience

Hazardous waste handling

Regulatory compliance

Supervisory experience

Site operations coordination

Education

WAMITAB / CIWM Level 3+ Waste Management

IOSH or NEBOSH Safety Qualification

Job description

Employment Type

Full Time, Permanent

Application Start Date

04-08-2026

Application End Date

18-08-2026

Work Style

On-site

Description

Chemring Countermeasures is a world leading and innovative company, designing and developing countermeasure solutions to armed forces throughout the world. We are part of the Chemring Group of companies and have a solid global infrastructure, which also helps us to thrive.

Overview of the role

Supervisor for the waste team and co-ordination of waste operations across site. Responsible for delivering safe disposal and removal of hazardous, nonhazardous and specialist waste. Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all matters of hazardous and non-hazardous waste management.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate and facilitate daily routine and non routine waste operations, ensuring safe and efficient delivery of services by the Waste Technician’s
• Ensure waste is handled, segregated, stored, packaged, labelled, moved and disposed of in accordance with site procedures and regulatory requirements
• Maintain high standards of housekeeping and organisation across all waste and recycling areas
• Monitor waste volumes and coordinate collections, ensuring all documentation (e.g. transfer notes, consignment notes) is completed accurately and remains fully traceable.
• Manage waste related visitors and contractors on site, including Permit to work processes, ensuring all activities are carried out safely and in compliance with site requirements.
• Develop, implement and maintain waste related QMS documentation (Work Instructions, Risk Assessments, Policy’s etc) and deliver training and toolbox talks to support compliance.
• Respond to and manage waste-related incidents (e.g. spills, mis-segregation), supporting upset condition and emergency procedures.
• Support internal and external audits of waste storage and burning ground.
• Identify and implement opportunities for waste minimisation, reuse, recycling and cost savings.
• Promote and enforce health, safety and environmental good working practices and standards across all waste activities
• Work closely with the Safety team to ensure compliance with all relevant legislations, governance and licensing requirements (e.g. Environmental Protection Act, Explosive Regulations, Disposal of Explosive Waste HSE Guidance).
• Collate, monitor and report departmentalKPIs to identify trends, track performance, and escalation issue’s.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and/or Experience

• Right to live and work in the UK
• Minimum of 5Years’ experience working within waste management, environmental services, or similar role.
• Knowledge of hazardous and non-hazardous waste handling and regulatory requirements
• Proven experience in a supervisory or team leader role

Desirable Qualifications, Skills and/or Experience

• Experience in a defense manufacturing environment
• WAMITAB / CIWM Level 3 or higher qualification in Waste Management
• IOSH or NEBOSH Safety Qualification

This role will be worked over a 4.5 day week; Monday to Thursday 08:00 – 16:45 and Friday 08:00 – 12:30.

Please note: We do not engage with recruitment agencies. We kindly ask that you refrain from sending speculative inquiries or CVs. Should we wish to collaborate with agencies, we will initiate contact accordingly.

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