Waste Services Supervisor

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and well organised individual to join our supervisor team in waste services. You will need to ensure operational staff maintain high standards of customer service and health and safety along with the ability to manage operational teams and identify service improvements. This role will include going out on site visits to check on crews and meet with members of the public for which a vehicle will be provided.
You will ensure the back-office systems supporting the operational activities of Waste Services are effectively and efficiently updated. You will be responsible for ensuring our crews and vehicles go out each day to collect waste and recycling and allocate the available resources effectively. The post holder will contribute to increasing our recycling rate and reducing the amount of waste sent for disposal.

About You

The post holder will be directly responsible for the management of day-to-day service provision in accordance with the council's requirements for waste services.

You should have experience of people management and supervision of frontline waste collection services or similar operational services.

Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.