Senior Chargeable Waste Officer

Senior Chargeable Waste Officer

Salary range: £34,731 to £41,703

Contract Type: Fixed Term (18 months initially).

Hours per week: 37

The Service

Are you experienced in delivering customer facing services, generating income and managing customer expectations? If you are then we’d like to hear from you.

It is an exciting time to work with us, as we develop our commercial waste collection services and consider new opportunities for income generation.

The Role

You will lead a small team in managing and developing the chargeable waste services, with a primary focus on commercial waste collections. These services are delivered to customers through our waste collection and cleansing contract.

You will play a key role in generating income for the Council through development and delivery of the business and marketing plans for chargeable waste collection and cleansing activities.

You will also be responsible for developing new offers, expanding the existing services and customer base, along with considering opportunities for further income generation with the Team Leader.

Who are we looking for?

You will be an engaging team player who is experienced in generating income from the delivery of customer facing services, providing high quality customer support, and developing new services with your team.

Preferably educated to degree level (or equivalent), or with relevant experience, you will ideally have experience working in the waste management industry, knowledge of the relevant legislation and experience of contract management.

You will be able to demonstrate experience of financial management including income generation, sales and commercial awareness.

You will also be resilient, open to change and have the ability to lead your team in shaping the future of chargeable waste services in Cornwall.

Please view the role profile here.

Location

This role is based in Cornwall.

You will be required to work in a hybrid manner e.g. both from home and in office locations in Cornwall.

What can we offer you?

You will join a high performing, professional and supportive team.

In addition to the competitive salary, we can also offer the following benefits:

• defined benefit pension arrangements
• 26 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• opportunities for flexible working
• training and continuous professional development, including payment of relevant professional membership fees.
• employee voluntary benefits scheme.
  

For more information about working for Cornwall Council and details of other benefits, please click here.

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g. race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.

Applications

To apply for this vacancy online, please complete our application form by clicking 'Apply for Job' at the top of this page. A CV must be attached as part of your application.

To apply for this vacancy offline, please complete our application form here. Application forms with accompanying CV's can be sent to ccrecruitment@cornwall.gov.uk.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Verity Palk – Team Leader - Waste Collection and Cleansing either via email at verity.palk@cornwall.gov.uk or call 01872 322222.

We will initially advertise this role for two weeks.

Previous applicants need not apply.