Operations Manager in Derby

Join Biffa as an Operations Manager. This is a full-time role, working Monday to Friday, hours per week.

A quick look at the role:

As an IVC Operations Manager within the Organics Division, you will be a key member of the site leadership team, responsible for overseeing daily operations at the IVC site. You will act as the main point of contact for site staff and the IVC Manager, ensuring operational efficiency, accurate record-keeping, and compliance with environmental and health and safety standards. A core part of your role involves leading the operational team to deliver high performance, aligned with the company’s mission to foster a safe, productive, and inclusive workplace culture. This is a site-based role involving regular outdoor work in varying weather conditions, with rotational availability required for operational oversight outside of standard working hours.

Your core responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day operational oversight of the site, leading the foreman and plant operators to ensure efficiency, compliance, and achievement of operational targets.
• Ensure full compliance with Health & Safety legislation, company policies, risk assessments, SSOWs, SOPs, and the Site Traffic Management Plan.
• Monitor composting processes and key parameters using SCADA and other systems, ensuring compliance with ABP, PAS 100, and APHA requirements.
• Oversee equipment inspections, LOLER compliance, planned preventative maintenance, breakdown response, and accurate maintenance records.
• Manage contractors, visitors, and suppliers on site, including inductions, permits to work, procurement, and stock control within budget.
• Lead health, safety, and environmental performance, including inspections, audits, incident investigations, pest control, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead, motivate, and manage the operational team, including rotas, training, performance management, inductions, and workforce planning.
• Maintain effective communication and reporting, acting as a key site contact for regulators and stakeholders, and supporting audits, inspections, and community engagement.

Requirements:

Our essential requirements:

• Demonstrable supervisory experience within waste management, composting, recycling, or a similar industrial environment.
• Proven experience producing and delivering risk assessments, permits to work, SOPs, and toolbox talks.
• Experience maintaining accurate operational records and extracting data from SCADA or similar automated control systems.
• Previous responsibility for ordering and managing consumables, PPE, lubricants, and spare parts.
• Strong working knowledge of health and safety legislation applicable to high-risk industrial or waste environments, with a focus on good housekeeping and site standards.
• Experience using and completing internal learning platforms or training modules.

Benefits:

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

• Ongoing career development, training and coaching – Because if you don’t grow, we don’t grow.
• Car or allowance.
• Competitive salary.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Retail and leisure discounts.
• Holiday and travel discounts.
• Life cover.

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.