Job Description
Position: Contract Assistant
Location: Bankhead Depot, Edinburgh EH11 4HD
Salary: £28,046 - £32,010
Hours: 36 per week
Are you a data person with attention to detail? Working in the heart of Neighbourhood Environmental Services, we're looking for a self-motivated individual to log, monitor, and report on Edinburgh's non-recycling and recycling waste. Ensuring our tonnage reporting systems are continuously updated and maintained with accurate and up-to-date information.
You will also provide support to the Waste and Cleansing Contracts team by assisting in the management of contracts and monitoring performance of individual contracts. This will include the raising of purchase orders and invoices on a monthly basis.
* Working within agreed procedures, processes, or briefs, deploying creative solution skills to achieve the agreed outcome.
* Confidence and experience with managing information and interpreting and analysing data effectively.
* Work without close daily supervision using own initiative to ensure operational processes are completed to essential timelines.
* Provide analysis and interpret a wide range of data to evaluate service effectiveness and the achievement of planned outcomes and benefits.
* Responsible for the input of tonnage data for all waste streams on a monthly basis; identify any anomalies and raise these with the Contract Manager.
* Liaising with contractors to ensure information is provided in a timely manner and follow up on any issues/queries raised to seek clarification.
* Ensure recording systems are kept up to date to reflect any changes with contracts/contractors.
* Interrogate appropriate systems to run ad hoc operational reports to support frontline service delivery and highlight where improvements are required.
* Responsible for the initial input of tonnage information to the Waste Data Flow system for all waste sites, which will be reviewed by line managers prior to submission to SEPA.
Experience Required:
* Ability to manipulate and visualise data in Excel.
* Excellent analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills.
* Excellent data scrutiny and numeracy skills.
* Excellent communication skills.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to ensure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity, and Flexibility into your ways of working.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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