Compliance Manager

The Compliance Manager plays a pivotal role in driving excellence in health, safety, environmental and regulatory compliance across the Leicester PFI contract. This is a second-line assurance role, focused on governance, oversight, competence and risk control across a diverse operational landscape including vehicle workshops, transport, waste collection, recycling centres, transfer stations, and construction activities. You will ensure alignment with Biffa’s standards while meeting all contractual and legal obligations, embedding a strong compliance culture and leading continuous improvement initiatives. Acting as a key point of contact for regulators and internal stakeholders, you will ensure operations remain safe, compliant and audit-ready at all times.

Your core responsibilities:

• Provide compliance oversight across all Leicester PFI operations, ensuring adherence to health, safety, environmental and regulatory requirements.
• Plan, lead and review risk assessments, ensuring hazards are identified, controlled and clearly communicated to operational teams.
• Establish and manage a comprehensive, risk-based audit and inspection programme, ensuring actions are tracked and closed effectively.
• Drive audit readiness across all sites, ensuring documentation is controlled, accessible and compliant.
• Act as the central subject matter expert for regulatory interpretation, supporting inspections, audits and site visits.
• Oversee incident investigations, ensuring root cause analysis is completed and corrective actions are implemented.
• Lead compliance governance for emergency preparedness, business continuity and incident response planning.
• Ensure compliance systems, including EcoOnline and COSHH, are maintained, accurate and up to date.
• Analyse trends in incidents, near misses and audit findings to proactively reduce risk exposure.
• Develop and maintain compliance training frameworks and competence matrices across operational teams.
• Support and embed Biffa Management Standards, Blueprint and GIMS, driving continuous improvement in safety and environmental performance.
• Collaborate with senior leadership, SHEQ teams and operational managers to ensure consistent compliance delivery.

Our essential requirements:

• Full UK driving licence.
• IOSH Certificate or equivalent health and safety qualification.
• Strong working knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation within waste or industrial environments.
• Proven experience liaising with external regulators and supporting audits, inspections and compliance reviews.
• Experience interpreting legislation and translating it into practical operational requirements.
• Experience working across multiple sites or operational functions.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities effectively.
• Confident communicator, able to influence stakeholders at all levels.

Desirable:

• NEBOSH Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health or Environmental Management.
• Experience with ISO management systems, 9001, 14001 and 45001.
• Experience in planning workloads or supporting operational resource management.

And here's why you'll love it at Biffa:

• Competitive salary.
• Ongoing career development, training and coaching - because if you don't grow, we don't grow.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Retail and leisure discounts.
• Holiday and travel discounts.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Plus, much more...

Changing the way people think about waste. At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we're turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It's a view that's shared by our 11,500+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull. And it's why we're the UK's No. 1 choice for business waste management.

Dedicated to diversity. Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you'll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.