Director of Waste & Highways

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Highways & Environmental Service Director to come and join a busy client in West Yorkshire.

The main duties of the experienced Highways & Environmental Service Director are:

• Supporting, developing, promoting and maintaining constructive multi-agency working to ensure the Council can deliver its priorities, overall aims and objectives ensuring the delivery of high quality services that focus on the needs of local people.
• Specific responsibility and accountability for managing the on-going contractual relationship with the Council’s waste management PFI partner, to ensure that all aspects of the Waste PFI contract are managed appropriately and that national and local targets relating to waste minimisation and recycling are met, including full compliance with regard to all associated legislation.
• To be a Nominated Responsible Officer on the Council’s Transport Services Operator Licence
• Work with colleagues across the Council to provide services which deliver sustainable improvements to the environment.
• Take opportunities to explore and deliver effective partnership working where benefits to improved service delivery can be identified.
• Work successfully with Elected Members, partners and key stakeholders including residents, communities and other business sectors to deliver organisational objectives.

The experienced Highways & Environmental Service Director will have skills and knowledge in:

• Knowledge of Waste collection, recycling and disposal.
• Understanding of how to deliver operational services with the lowest environmental impact.
• Excellent understanding of both contract and relationship management including negotiating.
• Thorough understanding of partnership working to enable positive outcomes.
• Excellent understanding of good governance principles.
• Commitment to own personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the role.
• Knowledge on compliance with Operator Licence requirements.
• Create a vision and direction that challenges and looks beyond the obvious. Inspiring and motivating others in order to
• achieve successful outcomes.
• Driving change and leading by example.
• Develop strategies and solutions to enable the Council’s long term vision.
• Highest level of interpersonal skills and communication skills to establish positive relationships and engage with a wide range of stakeholders that generate confidence and trust.
• The ability to influence and negotiate to establish credibility an enhance relationships for positive outcomes.
• Ability to employ a range of leadership styles which focus on achieving results in terms of outcomes for managers and customers.

For a full description and further information on the role, please call Harriet Simmonds at Carrington West on (phone number removed).

FOOTNOTE:
If you feel that you are right for this role technically, but the rate, location or seniority does not suit you specifically then please still feel free to send us your CV. We constantly recruit for roles very similar to this one at all levels UK Wide. We are always keen to chat with you discreetly about your employment situation.

Even if you are happy in your current role for now, we always welcome calls from Highways, Traffic & Transportation professionals keen to make their introductions for future months or years. Our specialist team has a combined 40+ years’ experience in this market. Please call Harriet at Carrington West on (phone number removed) for more information.

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