Assistant Waste Operations Manager in Coventry

In this role, you will play an important part in supporting the delivery of our waste and recycling services. This includes coordinating waste collections, assisting frontline colleagues, and ensuring that services are delivered in line with our Council values and our commitment to high‑quality, inclusive public services. You will contribute to a range of environmental initiatives, customer engagement activities, and continuous improvement projects designed to enhance the effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of our services for all members of the community. Your work will help us build stronger relationships with residents and support our wider sustainability goals.

A key aspect of the role involves maintaining compliance with health and safety requirements. You will help ensure that staff are working safely at all times, that our operations meet statutory standards, and that we continue to promote a positive and inclusive safety culture across the service. Your contribution will directly support the wider waste management process, helping the Council meet recycling targets, improve service reliability, and encourage environmentally responsible behaviour throughout the community.

We are seeking a suitably experienced operational leader who can help us deliver safe, reliable waste and recycling services for the residents of Coventry, while also supporting residents to make positive use of those services. This role combines hands‑on operational management with leadership responsibilities for a small team of Waste Education Officers, who run campaigns and initiatives to improve recycling habits and reduce contamination.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be confident managing frontline services.
• Have experience planning routes and resources.
• Be skilled in problem‑solving within fast‑moving operational environments.
• Build strong working relationships with crews, supervisors and partners.
• Provide supportive leadership to staff delivering education and engagement work in the community.

Within our team, women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds are currently underrepresented across middle management roles. We therefore actively encourage applications from women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds. This does not prevent any other applicants with or without protected characteristics from applying.

For an informal conversation about this challenging and rewarding role, please contact: Sarah Elliott – Strategic Lead for Environmental Services.

Interview Date is 23 February, in person at Whitley Depot.

About Coventry: Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change. We are cutting‑edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse. At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things. To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.