Environmental Services Officer
Team: Environmental Services
Job Family: Providing - CBG8
Salary: £30,060 - £32,801 per annum pro rata
Hours: 37 Hours per week
Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month
Contract Type: Hybrid – Permanent
Closing Date: 11th May 2025
Interview Date: W/C 19th May 2025
About the role:
Here in Environmental Services, we’re committed to ensuring Central Bedfordshire is a great place to live, work and visit. We achieve this by managing several large-scale, high cost public-facing services that enhance our area, including waste collection, waste disposal, four Household Waste Recycling Centres, street cleansing and fly tipping, grounds maintenance and weed spraying. You’ll find your greatness as you play an integral role in delivering these services as part of a proactive team.
We are looking for an Environmental Services Officer to join our team. You will be part of a small team essential for ensuring the quality and cost effectiveness of a range of high value, high profile, contracted out services. Key areas of activity will include on site monitoring, complaints investigation, resolution and problem solving and addressing under performance as well as driving forward waste reduction and minimisation principles. You will be out and about in the community on a daily basis, travelling around a specified area of Central Bedfordshire, ensuring that the council’s statutory duties are fulfilled, addressing underperformance and working pragmatically with contractors and other parties to resolve issues. You thrive keeping customers and other stakeholders informed and engaged in the services available to them, and will have a natural desire for customer satisfaction. Some weekend working, as part of a rota, may be required.
Educated to a good standard, and/or with good experience in a similar role, you’re an effective communicator probably already dealing with a wide range of stakeholders, and used to a professional, knowledgeable and proactive approach, with the ability to communicate at all levels. You will have excellent level of literacy and numeracy and a calm and patient approach to dealing with suppliers and contractors. Knowledge of the waste and environmental sector and contracted services coupled with good knowledge of the Central Bedfordshire area is beneficial.
Join us as a Environmental Services Officer, and you’ll get the chance to gain insight and knowledge in environmental based services and contract management whilst working with other team members. You’ll also find your own greatness as you influence the effective delivery of waste and environmental services.
Join us and take advantage of a generous rewards package and the chance to learn and progress. Find your greatness by helping us to deliver better waste and environmental services to the local community.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.
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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.
Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Harry Adams-Rimmer at harry.adams-rimmer@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 6308.
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