Compliance Officer - Recycling Centres

Salary: up to GBP31,500 per annum

37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday - hours between 08:00 and 18:00 - Telephone cover required every third weekend

Renewi has responsibility for managing 14 Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC) under the 25 year contract with Cumberland Council. The role of the HWRC Officer is to ensure compliance with Renewi's contractual obligations in relation to the management of the sites.

The role will involve extensive regular travel throughout Cumbria to visit the HWRC sites although you will be based at our Hespin Wood offices in Carlisle.

The HWRCs are a public facing service and our customer expects and deserves exceptionally high standards of operational service and Health and Safety compliance. .As an HWRC Officer you will have a key role within the Cumbria team providing a regular on-site presence, monitoring compliance in all areas.

You will also ensure that the site infrastructure and assets are maintained to a high standard and will have cradle to grave responsibility for delivering lifecycle projects.

This role will require that you acquire a detailed knowledge and understanding of the contractual obligations under both the Project Agreement and Sub Contracts. You will need to be pro-active and self-motivated to learn and apply this specialist knowledge on an ongoing daily basis. You will use your knowledge and problem solving skills to identify areas for improvement and work closely with our customer and our Sub-Contractor to help to deliver those improvements.

Your key responsibilities:

• Carry out weekly on-site inspections of Contractor Operational Compliance with the Output Specification and Service Delivery Plans.

• Identify, report and record Performance Failures in accordance with Contractual procedures, followed by investigating and resolving the underlying issues by working closely with the Sub-Contractor.

• Carry out regular on-site Health and Safety Inspections and liaise with Sub-Contractors and company SHEQ department to close out actions identified.

• Manage the planned maintenance programme and arrange for reactive repair and maintenance of site infrastructure and plant in accordance with the Asset Management Plan and procure and supervise Sub-Contractors and suppliers carrying out maintenance and repair works ensuring compliance with Health & Safety standards.

• Maintain accurate records, including expenditure, maintenance logs and incident reports.

• Assist in review and revision of Risk Assessments, Operational Procedures, and Service Delivery Plans

• Contribute to the production of the Monthly Monitoring Report to our customer

• Contribute to contractual meetings with our customer and subcontractor.

Essential/Preferred Skills:

• You will be a highly personable individual with a keen eye for detail, and a real passion for driving operational excellence

• To be successful in this role you will need to develop effective working relationships with your partner HWRC Officer, our Sub-Contractor and our customer and be an excellent communicator.

• Previous experience of the management of contractors and supervision of infrastructure maintenance

• Highly organised and able to work unsupervised, meeting deadlines whilst maintaining high standards

• Hold IOSH Managing Safely or other equivalent Health & Safety qualification

• Experience of working within a SLA based contractual environment, such as Facilities Management

What do we offer you?

• A competitive salary

• Enhanced employer contribution pension plan

• 33 days' annual leave entitlement including statutory holidays

• Access to our Sharesave scheme - Your chance to own shares in the business you work so hard for

• Numerous opportunities for career development, we have a history of promoting from within

• Access to Renewi wellbeing and reward platform from Day 1

• Company vehicle provided alongside all other required resource to assist you in succeeding in this role

Will you become our new HWRC Compliance Officer?

Want to know more? Please contact our Talent Acquisition team today!

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

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