Overview
How you’ll make a difference
As Team Leader, you will be a key figure in overseeing the day-to-day tasks of the team, ensuring the site operates in a fully compliant manner and for the health and safety of colleagues and all site users.
Assisting members of the public, you will promote a new culture of recycling and diversion of waste from landfill. You will work 2 days at Thornbury and 3 days at Little Stoke household waste recycling centres and transfer stations.
What you will be doing
- Supervising a small team of staff, you will allocate work, maintain shift logs, manage sickness and leave and ensure that team members have clear instructions so that effective services are provided.
- You will be responsible for ensuring the site is fully compliant with legal duties in respect of health and safety and will report any faults and breakdown as necessary. You will also make sure that safe systems of working are followed, risk assessments are undertaken, regulations are enforced and relevant data is recorded.
- Daily, you will carry out waste acceptance checks on incoming material and carry out rejections, communicating with internal colleagues, external contractors and suppliers to give advice, ensuring they receive the appropriate equipment and materials and guidance.
- It will be your responsibility to conduct inspections and servicing of site equipment, plant or infrastructure, and that equipment within the area is used and maintained in a safe manner, reporting all defects.
- You will assist in the traffic management on the site, including members of the public and vehicles entering and exiting the site when removing or exchanging waste containers.
- A key requirement will be to complete work-related administrative tasks, to include accurate maintenance of databases and records including stock control.
What we need from you
- You will hold an IOSH qualification, which will be refreshed every 3 years or you will be willing to work towards this.
- It is essential that you have experience of working in a waste environment and have a good understanding and experience of waste related legislation and policies and procedures for everyday scenarios.
- You must hold mobile plant licenses and be able to advise and guide operatives about using plant, or be willing to train to deliver this.
- Due to duties of the role, you must be able to complete administrative reporting in an accurate and timely manner, have good numeracy skills and a working knowledge and experience of using Microsoft Office.
- You must have experience of supervising a team, issuing tasks and providing feedback to individuals on their performance in a constructive way. You will be able to prioritise, plan, monitor and evaluate work to meet standards, targets and deadlines.
- Having experience within a public facing working environment, it is essential that you can deliver a good customer experience and care to our site users.
- A COTC qualification is desirable but not essential.
What you need to know
Interviews are to be held on the 9th October 2025.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different
- What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.
- As part of our benefits package you will receive generous annual leave , employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of
- We’re working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life
- We’re investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.
We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
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