Waste and Recycling Manager - ABC11475
| Posting date: | 10 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,355.20 to £70,397.60 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 June 2025 |
| Location: | Aberdeen, AB12 3GX |
| Company: | Aberdeen City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ABC11475 |
Summary
Job Purpose:
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Location: Altens East Recycling & Resource Facility, Hareness Place, Altens Industrial Estate, Aberdeen
Duration: Permanent, Full Time
About the Role:
As Waste and Recycling Manager your role will be to oversee and manage the waste, recycling and composting collections and processing / disposal function in order to lead and co-ordinate key activities, achieving the Service objectives of the Council within a complex governance and customer focused environment.
As Waste and Recycling Manager your role will be to oversee and manage the Waste Management Services Contract. Also to represent the council, overseeing the contract management for the waste service, on the NESS Energy Project Officer Group.
As Waste and Recycling Manager you will also oversee and manage the waste strategy. You will enhance Aberdeen City Council’s ability to continually improve and will utilise available resources to provide the highest standard of service delivery by focusing on customer needs and robust internal processes. You will influence Local, Regional and National stakeholders to ensure a policy framework is developed that will meet the city’s needs. Included within this strategic role, you’ll plan and deliver your work portfolio to realise service aims and objectives.
The post holder needs to hold as a minimum:
Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience
Membership of relevant professional institution
The postholder is able to demonstrate:
Skills & Experience in:
Significant experience at management level within a multi-functional organisation, and within a field relevant to the post. This must include evidence of proven experience in the following:
- Advising, influencing, persuading, commanding confidence and acting assertively in a political environment with all key partners, internal and external.
- Information management skills of reporting, monitoring, analysis and evaluating
- Awareness of diversity and inclusion issues in both employment and service delivery
- Budget management
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience of working constructively with people at all levels, including the media wider public, Elected Members/ politicians, and the business community
Ability to effectively manage contracts and apply negotiation techniques to reach mutual agreement on settlement and / or outcomes
Strategic thinker who can contribute to the development of the service within the organisation, including balancing competing needs and interests
Capacity to meet deadlines, satisfy political objectives and organisational priorities
Demonstrate high level analytical skills, an aptitude for strategic problem-solving, decision making and negotiating
An ability to produce practical and creative solutions
Understanding of:
Sound knowledge of relevant national and local government policies pertaining to
regulatory services
Demonstrable knowledge of the statutory, regulatory, strategic and key operational
issues relevant to the post.
Substantial knowledge of areas for which the post holder is responsible, including industry best practice and developments in areas relating to the functions of the post
Demonstrate effective Contract Management knowledge and expertise
Commitment to:
Providing effective leadership and committed to effective employee communication and engagement
Investing time in coaching and developing people.
Delegating decision making responsibility and demonstrate trust where appropriate.
Making the best use of resources, including employees, ICT and financial resources, whilst striking a balance between cost, quality and price
Working with others co-operatively (both internally and externally) in order to achieve
better services and customer focused outcomes.
Behaving in a consistent and reliable manner whist ensuring that everyone is treated fairly and with respect
Taking a balanced view of customer needs and placing this at the centre of all decision
making
Ensuring that organisational and performance objectives and standards are achieved.
Demonstrating a drive and desire to improve performance and deliver better services.
Accepting responsibility for own actions and dealing with performance issues quickly and decisively
Planning and monitoring health and safety performance and motivating employees to
work in a safe and healthy manner
About Us
Please see the Job Profile for further details.
Aberdeen City Council is an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. For further information, please see our Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Recruitment pack.
Flexible Working
We are happy to talk flexible working and offer flexible working for most roles in the organisation meaning that many of our employees enjoy the freedom of choosing a working pattern that suits them as much as it suits the organisation.
Disability Confident
We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you consider yourself to have a disability and think you may require a reasonable adjustment to be made for this part of the selection process, or would like further information in relation to reasonable adjustments, please contact AskHR@aberdeencity.gov.uk.
Armed Forces
We are a forces-friendly employer, have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and are a silver award recipient in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We have a specific email address for those in the forces, those who have left the forces, as well as their partners / spouses / families: armedforces@aberdeencity.gov.uk. We are able to answer questions about jobs and our application / selection process, as well as about our employee support provisions.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
We have a number of guaranteed interview schemes available to applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role they are applying for who:
- have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 (all jobs)
- looked after young people, those that are in continuing care or are a care leaver up to the age of 29 (all jobs)
- are aged 16-24 and live in Aberdeen City or have been to an Aberdeen City Council school and are applying for a Modern Apprenticeship (except Trades apprenticeships)
- have done a Foundation Apprenticeship with Aberdeen City Council and are applying for any apprenticeships relevant to the area in which they did their Foundation Apprenticeship
- are New Scots* aged 16-24 and are applying for any apprenticeships
*"New Scots" are defined as refugees and asylum seekers who are in Scottish communities and include those who have been granted refugee status or another form of humanitarian protection, people seeking asylum, those who have been refused asylum, and those whose application has been refused but who remain in Scotland.
Further information can be found at https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/jobs
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