Our Corporate Services segment at Sodexo have an exciting opportunity for a Waste Manager to join the team based at one of our contracts in Wisbech. Your focus will be to coordinate, control and record all waste removed from site. 

This role will suit an experienced Waste Manager keen to develop and support/deputise for the General Services Manager.  We are looking for a great communicator and people manager who can not only utilize their strong waste management experience but also be happy supporting the GSM with managing the team. Excellent organisation skills with a good knowledge of IT will be key to your success. We are looking for someone with a hands on approach and a can do attitude.

This is a great opportunity for a customer focused individual to join a world leading food and facilities management company, which can offer unrivalled opportunities for career progression. 

£25,000pa to £28,000pa + excellent benefits

Location: Wisbech, PE13

Permanent

Work Pattern – 40 hrs pw Monday to Friday with flexibility covering this 24/7 operation

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more!

• Manage all the onsite waste team including the night shift
• Manage all training of the onsite team
• Ensure waste is disposed of in a cost effective, complaint manner
• Ensure risk assessments and SOPs are up to date and operational
• Completion of paperwork requested by the client
• Maintain Sodexo’s waste management
• Arrangement of transportation
• To deal efficiently and effectively with any requests / concerns / complaints from client
• Carry out duty of care checks on compliance file
• Maximise the profitability of the operation by managing costs and increasing the sales, working with the site GSM.
• Utilise systems, such as Kronus, Eprofit.
• Implement, maintain, and communicate to employees the client, and Sodexo standards and statutory regulations relating to safe systems of work, health, and safety, in order to ensure compliance is adhered to at all times
• Recruit, induct, motivate, manage, train, and develop all employees
• Carry out operational shifts and support other areas of the business as required
• Continuous focus on the highest employee engagement and team positive safety culture
• Providing HSE monthly reports to reflect the safety performance on site

For a full list of responsibilities please view the attached job description

• Strong interpersonal skills
• To be able to communicate effectively – both written and verbal
• Understand the needs of using a computer for systems input.
• Good baseline understanding of waste management operations
• Experience of delivering waste operations in a busy factory environment
• Experience of effectively and proactively managing sub-contractors
• Ability to identify and implement innovative solutions to improve productivity and waste management performance
• FLT License

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.  

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. 

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process