Collections​/Recycling Supervisor – Albert Road – Waste

SALARY: £45,377.45 per annum HOURS: 45 per week, Monday — Friday, 5am – 2.30pm – flexibility with shift times when required LOCATION: Albert Road, Bristol Collections/Recycling Supervisor
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 £20 million every year.

We want people who share our values and want to work with us to drive our business forward.

To be accountable for the performance of allocated teams, so that a high-quality service is delivered in line with; client contract specification; company objectives, values and performance targets. To undertake all staff management functions of allocated crews to maximise employee engagement, performance and productivity.

Leadership and management of a team of [up to 30] employees, ensuring:

• Recruitment, management and development of team are in line with good practice
• A culture of inclusion, where employees are always treated with dignity and respect
• Strong performance management in line with Company policy and procedures. This includes; management of absences, undertaking investigations and giving clear expectations and feedback where performance or conduct is not satisfactory.
• Continual monitoring of the quality and quantity of team performance by regular crew checks, crew meetings, observations and assessment. Taking remedial action where necessary.
• That all staff are inducted, trained and understand all systems, processes, procedures, regulations, codes of practice and required legislation.
• Strong two-way communication — regular and timely team briefings and provision of opportunities for the team to provide feedback to management.

Ensuring Health and Safety of employees, contractors and the public:

• Staying current with all company related health and safety policies and procedures and ensuring personal training compliance
• Undertaking risk assessments of responsible operations and to ensure compliance with health and safety processes, procedures, regulations and legislation at all times
• Promoting a strong proactive Health and Safety Culture, encouraging reporting on near misses and ensuring team learning from those
• Ensuring that all team members are compliant with their mandatory H&S training
• Thorough and timely completion of any Initial Accident Reviews
• Review, analysis and dissemination of H&S KPIs and reporting to the team
• Supporting the implementation of the new Health and Safety system and encouraging/validating appropriate use by team

Have a strong focus on vehicle compliance and driver safety:

• Undertaking regulate gate checks with each crew
• Ensuring vehicles are operated within weight limits, providing guidance on techniques and good practice
• Ensuring that driver hours and practices are compliant and that corrective actions are identified following any infringements
• Reviewing telematic information to identify and communicate where driver safety can be improved

Making sure resource availability supports required levels of service provision:

• To monitor and plan staffing levels so that adequate cover is always maintained, taking into account absences and busy periods
• To ensure adequate vehicle provision, resolving truck break downs of allocated crews
• To engage positively with BWC colleagues, Bristol City Council as well as other partners and community groups
• To ensure sufficient time allocated to support own learning and development in relation to leadership and good management practices

• Knowledge of a logistics and/or waste management industry
• Understanding of transport management and fleet compliance
• Good written and verbal skills with the ability to compose letters and reports
• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal…