Interim Environmental Service Director
Reference no: Wakefield TCL 0009 75EF / 1
Pay Rate: £357.00 per day PAYE
35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: WAKEFIELD
Standard DBS disclosure required
Hybrid - needs to ideally be local, this person will need to be in office 3 days a week
This role requires someone with a local authority background, ideally with experience in Street Scene, Waste Management, Highways, and managing large contracts such as PFI.
Reporting to the Corporate Director Regeneration, Environment and Economic Growth, the role will be the Council lead for all waste-related services and contracts, fleet management and transport operations, countryside management, and the maintenance of the street scene. This also includes being the lead for the Council’s operational depots.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Supporting, developing, promoting, and maintaining constructive multi-agency working to ensure the Council can deliver its priorities, overall aims, and objectives, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services that focus on the needs of local people.
2. Specific responsibility and accountability for managing the ongoing contractual relationship with the Council’s waste management PFI partner, ensuring all aspects of the Waste PFI contract are managed appropriately and that national and local targets relating to waste minimisation and recycling are met, including full compliance with all associated legislation.
3. Be a Nominated Responsible Officer on the Council’s Transport Services Operator Licence.
4. Work with colleagues across the Council to provide services that deliver sustainable improvements to the environment.
5. Take opportunities to explore and deliver effective partnership working where benefits to improved service delivery can be identified.
Knowledge:
1. Knowledge of waste collection, recycling, and disposal at a scale similar to that of the Wakefield District.
2. Knowledge of compliance with Operator Licence requirements.
3. Understanding of how to deliver operational services with the lowest environmental impact.
4. Excellent understanding of both contract and relationship management, including negotiating.
5. Detailed understanding of business needs on a national, regional, and local level and how to meet them in Wakefield.
6. Thorough understanding of partnership working to enable positive outcomes.
7. Excellent understanding of good governance principles.
Experience:
1. Significant experience of environmental legislation and in a field related to environment-based services, including specifically waste management.
2. Significant experience of successful management of teams of diverse professionals to achieve high-performance targets and corporate objectives in complex environments.
3. Proven track record of successful leadership.
Skills & Abilities:
1. Highest level of interpersonal skills and communication skills to establish positive relationships and engage with a wide range of stakeholders that generate confidence and trust.
2. The ability to influence and negotiate to establish credibility and enhance relationships for positive outcomes.
3. Ability to employ a range of leadership styles that focus on achieving results in terms of outcomes for managers and customers.
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