SALARY: Competitive
FTC: 9 months, starting May 2025
HOURS: 37.5 per week, Monday - Friday
PRIMARY LOCATION: Albert Road, Bristol, with travel to other sites across the City.
ROLE TYPE: Onsite, minimum 4 days per week.
CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 8th April 2025.
Interim Operations Director (9 Month FTC)
About Bristol Waste Company:
What we do is important – we’re here to keep Bristol, and beyond, clean, and safe.
We do this for our city’s residents, workers, visitors, and businesses. Our work helps deliver Bristol’s sustainability targets in partnership with the council.
Bristol Waste’s commercial operation, where we serve businesses and organisations across the region, is also growing.
Our ambition is to provide good quality, value for money services, and we continue to deliver a social value impact worth more than £30 million every year.
We want people who share our values and want to work with us to drive our business forward.
Purpose of the role:
We are seeking an experienced Operations Director to lead our team for a 9-month period starting in May 2025. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in the waste sector, demonstrating strong leadership skills and a comprehensive understanding of the industry's legal rules and guidelines.
This role reports directly to the Managing Director and you will also be a member of the Executive Team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee daily waste, recycling and cleaning operations and ensure efficient workflow
- Implement strategic initiatives to improve operational performance
- Ensure compliance with industry regulations and guidelines
- Lead and mentor the operations team in the delivery of the business plan
- Line management responsibility for two Deputy Operations Directors
Essential Requirements for the Role:
- Waste Industry experience at a senior level within a large multi-disciplinary environment, Teckal or Local Authority organisation, or equivalent experience
- Strong ability to build and nurture effective partnerships, manage stakeholder relationships, and influence others to achieve business objectives
- Proven ability to develop and implement strategic approaches across multiple teams and functions to deliver high performing services
- Evidence that leadership and delivery style align with BWC’s values, with high levels of personal integrity
The Person We Really Want: You will excel in optimising operational processes, managing stakeholder relationships, and delivering positive outcomes for the businesses you work for. You will be a collaborator, committed to doing the right thing, a strong communicator, and focused on ensuring both you and your teams perform.
Flexible Working: We work flexibly, but visibility in this role is important as your teams work across our sites. To really get under the skin of our business, you need to be out and about. You are likely to be on site four days per week.
We Want to Meet You: If this challenge excites you, we’d love to hear from you and explore the fit. Help us keep Bristol clean and safe and deliver exceptional services across the city of Bristol.
For More Information: For more information on this role, please get in touch with Ceri Hodgkinson, People Director ceri.hodgkinson@bristolwastecompany.co.uk
Our Benefits:
- Annual leave package of 25 days plus 8 bank holidays.
- Employer matched pension contribution up to 10%.
- Support for Mental Health, including a BUPA Employee Assistance Programme that provides support covering Mental Health, Financial and Family related topics. We also have Mental Health First Aiders across the business.
- Support for your Physical Health with our BUPA Health Cash Plan (we cover the cost of coverage for you), Cycle to Work scheme and an onsite Physiotherapist. All are free for our colleagues.
- Because we value our colleagues, we want to recruit more employees just like them, which is why we have our employee referral scheme.
- Dedicated learning and development team. We take pride in developing our colleagues and some examples of this include our In-House Driver Development Programme and internal promotions. Many of our Senior Leadership Team have developed from Operational roles, such as one of our Contract Managers who started as a Street Cleanser.
- Employee recognition ‘Stand Out Award’ and long service awards. To celebrate our colleagues wherever they are on their journey with us, we recognise and celebrate talent.
- We recognise that everyone is different and strive to create an environment that supports all colleagues through flexible working. We have introduced a hybrid working model where possible and actively encourage part-time working, job sharing and flexibility on hours. If this interests, you please do get in touch, and we can start a conversation.
Everyone belongs:
At Bristol Waste everyone belongs – we are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation.
We give fair and equal consideration to all applications.
We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence.
Important note on applying:
- Please apply as soon as possible and before 23:59 on the closing date. Sometimes we close vacancies early if we receive a high number of quality applications.
- Due to the high volume of interest, we won’t be able to receive late applications and we are currently unable to respond to all who apply.
- If you haven’t heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, it unfortunately means you won’t be invited to interview on this occasion.
Thank you for your interest in joining Bristol Waste Company.