Assistant Operations Manager

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Are you an experienced operational leader with a background in waste management, environmental services or front-line operations?

We're looking for an Assistant Operations Manager to play a pivotal role in delivering essential frontline waste services across the borough. In this role, you'll help ensure our communities remain clean, safe and attractive places to live, work and visit.

What You'll Be Getting Up To

As Assistant Operations Manager, you'll be responsible for supporting and overseeing a wide range of operational activities, including:

• Leading and supporting supervisors and frontline teams delivering waste and recycling collection, street cleansing and depot operations.
• Managing the day-to-day delivery of efficient, high-quality and cost-effective environmental services.
• Monitoring and coordinating operational programmes, resources, contractors and suppliers to ensure service standards are achieved.
• Driving continuous improvement by identifying new technologies, innovative practices, training needs and opportunities to enhance service delivery.
• Supporting the management of operational budgets, projects and service development initiatives.
• Ensuring compliance with waste management legislation, environmental regulations, health and safety requirements and council policies.
• Supporting fleet management activities, ensuring vehicles are serviced, inspected and maintained to the required standards.
• Supporting environmental enforcement activities and helping coordinate operational responses to issues such as fly-tipping, littering and other environmental concerns.
• Managing people effectively, including performance management, attendance, development, wellbeing and succession planning.
• Participation in the Council’s out of hour emergency activities as a named point of contact.

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who can bring strong operational leadership and a passion for delivering excellent waste services. You'll have:

• Proven experience leading, motivating and developing teams to deliver high-quality services.
• Significant experience working within an operational environment (ideally within Waste or Environmental industries).
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to build positive relationships and produce clear reports and correspondence.
• Sound knowledge of health and safety legislation and experience completing near miss, accident investigations andrisk assessments.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
• Strong IT and data management skills, including experience using Microsoft Office applications.
• A full UK driving licence.

Pendle is in Lancashire’s scenic Pennines, close to the Yorkshire Dales, Lake District, and Manchester.

We offer

• Flexible working, including no set core hours, up to 2 flexi days per month, and compressed hours
• Up to 31 days annual leave

Our Benefits include

• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Option to buy extra annual leave
• Cycle to Work, home tech, and car salary sacrifice schemes
• Discounts at major retailers via the Vivup programme
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and do not discriminate on any basis, including age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Please note: we are unable to support visa sponsorship for this post as the occupation code for the role is not one that is eligible for a skilled worker visa.

Previous applicants need not apply.