Environmental Contracts Manager
| Posting date: | 11 June 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £50,116 to £56,369 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 June 2026 |
| Location: | Sittingbourne, Kent |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | Swale Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
About the Role:
We are seeking a skilled and proactive Environmental Contracts Manager to lead the delivery and performance of our key environmental service contracts. This includes waste and recycling services, street cleansing, and the management of public conveniences across the Borough.
We are looking for an experienced contract manager, ideally with a waste or street cleansing background. This is a pivotal role responsible for ensuring high-quality, efficient, and compliant service delivery through effective contract management, and managing a team of contract and resources officers who deal with residents, Councillors and contractor staff to improve services.
Key Responsibilities include:
• Work with Ashford Borough Council, Maidstone Borough Council, and Kent County Council as part of the Mid Kent Joint Waste and Street Cleansing Contract.
• Manage and monitor environmental service contracts, ensuring compliance and high performance.
• Oversee delivery of waste, recycling, and street cleansing services to maintain high customer satisfaction.
• Lead the Council’s Waste and Recycling Strategy, delivering initiatives to improve recycling rates, reduce waste, and support community engagement.
• Oversee public convenience contracts, ensuring quality and value for money.
• Review services, drive improvements, and develop future contract specifications.
• Manage budgets, reporting, and audit requirements across key service areas.
• Produce reports and updates for senior management and Councillors.
• Engage with Councillors to resolve local issues and improve services.
• Represent the Council at partnership, officer, and Member meetings.
• Ensure performance data is accurate, timely, and meets required standards.
This is a full time role working 34 hours per week on a permanent contract. This role offers the benefit of hybrid working, combining the flexibility to work from home with office-based working on a business needs basis. There will also be the requirement to attend sites across and outside the borough, and to attend meetings which may be outside of normal working hours.
About Swale Borough Council:
Swale Borough Council is a progressive and ambitious Local Authority, located less than an hour from Central London in an attractive and diverse part of Kent involving urban, rural, and coastal areas. We believe that staff are our most valuable asset and we’re committed to attracting and retaining the very best. In recent times we have adapted and evolved to meet the current world by introducing a highly flexible hybrid working policy, along with a 34-hour week, recognising that staff wellbeing and work life balance is high on our agenda.
About You:
You will be educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent formal management qualification (e.g. diploma or degree) or hold equivalent experience. You will also require a full clean UK driving licence.
You will have experience of managing major contracts, ideally in the local government setting or from a contractor side, you will have knowledge of the operations of the waste and or street cleansing industry and understand environmental legislation.
Additionally, you will have excellent communication skills with the ability to develop positive working relationships and adapt communication style for different audiences.
You will be a resilient individual with people management experience. You will have the ability to review work streams and processes to ensure that tasks are undertaken in the most effective way.
The successful candidate will have a proven track record in monitoring data and driving performance. You will have strong problem-solving skills and the ability to find innovative solutions.
Selection Process:
Following the submission of your application form, it will be reviewed by the recruiting manager. Those that are successful in securing an interview can expect a job specific interview assessment, followed by an interview.
Swale Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment.
If you would like to discuss this position, please contact Alister Andrews, Environmental Services Manager on 01795 417320.
Job Description and Person Specification: Job-Description-Environmental-Contracts-Manager.pdf
Interview Date: w/c 13 July 2026
We are seeking a skilled and proactive Environmental Contracts Manager to lead the delivery and performance of our key environmental service contracts. This includes waste and recycling services, street cleansing, and the management of public conveniences across the Borough.
We are looking for an experienced contract manager, ideally with a waste or street cleansing background. This is a pivotal role responsible for ensuring high-quality, efficient, and compliant service delivery through effective contract management, and managing a team of contract and resources officers who deal with residents, Councillors and contractor staff to improve services.
Key Responsibilities include:
• Work with Ashford Borough Council, Maidstone Borough Council, and Kent County Council as part of the Mid Kent Joint Waste and Street Cleansing Contract.
• Manage and monitor environmental service contracts, ensuring compliance and high performance.
• Oversee delivery of waste, recycling, and street cleansing services to maintain high customer satisfaction.
• Lead the Council’s Waste and Recycling Strategy, delivering initiatives to improve recycling rates, reduce waste, and support community engagement.
• Oversee public convenience contracts, ensuring quality and value for money.
• Review services, drive improvements, and develop future contract specifications.
• Manage budgets, reporting, and audit requirements across key service areas.
• Produce reports and updates for senior management and Councillors.
• Engage with Councillors to resolve local issues and improve services.
• Represent the Council at partnership, officer, and Member meetings.
• Ensure performance data is accurate, timely, and meets required standards.
This is a full time role working 34 hours per week on a permanent contract. This role offers the benefit of hybrid working, combining the flexibility to work from home with office-based working on a business needs basis. There will also be the requirement to attend sites across and outside the borough, and to attend meetings which may be outside of normal working hours.
About Swale Borough Council:
Swale Borough Council is a progressive and ambitious Local Authority, located less than an hour from Central London in an attractive and diverse part of Kent involving urban, rural, and coastal areas. We believe that staff are our most valuable asset and we’re committed to attracting and retaining the very best. In recent times we have adapted and evolved to meet the current world by introducing a highly flexible hybrid working policy, along with a 34-hour week, recognising that staff wellbeing and work life balance is high on our agenda.
About You:
You will be educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent formal management qualification (e.g. diploma or degree) or hold equivalent experience. You will also require a full clean UK driving licence.
You will have experience of managing major contracts, ideally in the local government setting or from a contractor side, you will have knowledge of the operations of the waste and or street cleansing industry and understand environmental legislation.
Additionally, you will have excellent communication skills with the ability to develop positive working relationships and adapt communication style for different audiences.
You will be a resilient individual with people management experience. You will have the ability to review work streams and processes to ensure that tasks are undertaken in the most effective way.
The successful candidate will have a proven track record in monitoring data and driving performance. You will have strong problem-solving skills and the ability to find innovative solutions.
Selection Process:
Following the submission of your application form, it will be reviewed by the recruiting manager. Those that are successful in securing an interview can expect a job specific interview assessment, followed by an interview.
Swale Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment.
If you would like to discuss this position, please contact Alister Andrews, Environmental Services Manager on 01795 417320.
Job Description and Person Specification: Job-Description-Environmental-Contracts-Manager.pdf
Interview Date: w/c 13 July 2026
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