Waste Supervisor

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South Derbyshire District Council is looking for an experienced and motivated Waste Supervisor to provide senior operational leadership across our frontline waste and recycling services. This is a key role in ensuring safe, legal and high-performing delivery across refuse, recycling, organics/food waste, bulky collections and container deliveries, while supporting the Operations Manager to ensure services are delivered within agreed budgets, standards and statutory obligations. 

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and coordinate day-to-day service delivery across all waste streams, ensuring consistent standards, productivity and customer outcomes.
• Provide operational direction and line management to 4 Refuse Team Leaders, setting expectations, monitoring delivery and intervening early to prevent service failure.
• Own the daily/weekly operational plan, including contingency arrangements for sickness, severe weather, vehicle downtime and peak demand periods.
• Ensure robust start/finish controls (briefings, depot reporting, sign-in/out, end-of-day checks) and compliance with working time and contractual hours.
• Drive a ‘right first time’ culture, reducing repeat visits, missed collections and avoidable service recovery activity.
• Act as the senior operational lead for health and safety, ensuring safe systems of work and risk assessments are implemented, reviewed and embedded.
• Lead or support investigations into accidents, incidents and near misses, ensuring corrective actions are implemented, recorded and reviewed.
• Act as the senior operational escalation point for complex complaints, recurring service failures and Member enquiries, ensuring evidence-led resolution and clear communication. 

What we’re looking for 

• Significant operational experience in waste/refuse/recycling or a comparable frontline service. 

• Demonstrable supervisory experience managing crews/rounds and achieving daily service delivery. 

• Good working knowledge of operational health and safety (risk assessments/SSoW, traffic management, manual handling, PPE). 

• Competent IT skills for reporting, audits and maintaining accurate records. 

• Full UK driving licence.

Please be aware that Derbyshire County Council is placing this advert on behalf of this organisation and you should refer directly to its website for details of the terms and conditions attached to this post. Any queries regarding this advert or the recruitment process should be made directly to the organisation.