At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a busy recycling facility, ensuring safety and operational excellence.
- Company: Dynamic waste management company focused on sustainability.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hands-on leadership role, and career development opportunities.
- Other info: Fast-paced environment with a focus on safety and compliance.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in recycling while leading a passionate team.
- Qualifications: Experience in site management and strong leadership skills required.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
Reporting to: Regional Manager
The Opportunity
We’re looking for an experienced Site Manager – Barkston to take full responsibility for our Barkston processing facility. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives in a fast-moving operational environment and enjoys being visible on site, leading from the front. You’ll have end-to-end ownership of safety, compliance, operational performance, plant reliability and people leadership across a busy 24/6 operation. As Site Manager – Barkston, you’ll play a key role in delivering our recycling strategy, maintaining regulatory compliance and ensuring the site performs safely, efficiently and commercially. This is not an office-based role. We’re looking for an active, decisive manager who understands waste processing, plant operations and people management in a live operational environment.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Health, Safety, Environment and Compliance
- Ensuring full compliance with health and safety legislation, environmental permits, EA requirements and internal standards
- Maintaining robust Safe Systems of Work, risk assessments, method statements and permits
- Leading accident investigations, near-miss reporting and corrective actions
- Delivering toolbox talks, safety briefings and supporting wider SHEQ initiatives
- Managing contractor and visitor safety at all times
- Ensuring the site is audit-ready and operating in line with all regulatory expectations
- Operations, Plant and Asset Management
- Managing material processing, recovery, storage, transport and offtake activity
- Maximising plant availability, throughput, quality and uptime
- Overseeing the safe and effective use of static and mobile plant
- Working closely with engineering teams to plan preventative and reactive maintenance
- Applying strong mechanical understanding to support fault finding, repairs and downtime reduction
- Driving operational discipline through daily planning, shift coordination and KPI reviews
- Supporting the effective production of SRF and RDF where applicable
You’ll act as the visible safety leader on site, setting the standard and embedding a strong zero-harm culture across all shifts. You’ll be responsible for:
You’ll take full accountability for day-to-day site operations, ensuring materials are processed safely, efficiently and in line with permit, quality and commercial requirements. You’ll be responsible for:
This Site Manager – Barkston role requires a visible leader who can build a capable, engaged and accountable team across a multi-shift operation. You’ll be responsible for:
- Leading, managing and developing all site personnel
Site Manager employer: Panda Recycling UK
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