Environmental and Waste Manager

Environmental and Waste Manager

Mobile with regular travel

£ 45,421 - £ 50,468 per annum (depending on experience)

Permanent, 40 Hours per week

Join Platform Property Care and play a key role in our growing Estates team.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Environmental & Waste Manager to join our growing team. This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape and deliver our waste services ensuring they are fully compliant, efficient, cost-effective and environmentally responsible, supporting a more sustainable future for the organisation.

You will lead a team of trade operatives, overseeing day-to-day operations while driving performance, supporting staff development and ensuring full compliance with health, safety and regulatory standards. Working collaboratively across PPC, you will partner with colleagues in sustainability and waste functions and act as a key link across directorates including Compliance, Health & Safety, Assets, PPC and Procurement.

In this role, you will help embed continuous improvement, enhance sustainability performance, reduce waste across the supply chain and support the transition towards a more circular waste management model.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting new role offering the chance to make a real and visible difference. You will help improve the sustainability and cost-efficiency of our waste services, supporting initiatives that drive waste reduction, reuse, recycling and correct segregation across the organisation.

What you'll be doing:

• Responsible for all aspects of waste management, including the planning, coordination and reporting of waste collection performance across all waste streams
• Managing team performance through regular check-ins, 1:1s, coaching and development, using tools such as the Multi Skill Framework
• Ensuring compliance with health, safety, environmental regulations and quality standards through regular briefings, checks and accurate record keeping
• Fostering a positive, inclusive team culture by encouraging engagement, recognising contributions and responding to feedback

This is a mobile role requiring regular travel across our Estates, as well as travel to group offices, particularly Worcester and Solihull, for meetings and training as required.

Some of the key requirements we are looking for include:

• WAMITAB / CIWM Level 3–4 qualification, or specialist waste-related training (e.g. Duty of Care and Hazardous Waste Management).
• Experience managing waste services within a housing, residential, or facilities management environment.
• Proven experience managing a mobile or geographically dispersed workforce, including performance management, coaching, and staff development.
• Experience leading a multi-site or locality-based service, with responsibility and accountability for operational delivery.

Some of the great benefits we can offer:

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with the opportunity to buy and sell leave

• Family friendly policies including generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared Parental and Adoption leave plus 3 days paid Urgent Domestic Leave

• Medicash membership for all employees which includes access to an employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership and exclusive discounts

• Health Cash Plan worth up to £1700 p/a with cashback for dental, optical, physio and complementary therapies and more

• Pension contribution scheme with employer contributions of up to 12% (inclusive of life assurance and based on employee contributions)

• Learning and Development opportunities

• Employee reward and recognition scheme with wellbeing hub and discount from a wide range of retailers

Next Steps – How to apply

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, click Apply to complete your application and upload your CV, highlighting how your skills and experience align with the role.

In-person interviews are expected to take place from 01st July at our Worcester office (WR5 1DU)

For further information about the role, please refer to the attached role profile or contact Adam Eccleston or Stuart Whitteron, Locality Operations Managers.

• Adam.Eccleston@platformhg.com
• Stuart.Whitteron@platformhg.com

Early applications are encouraged, as we may close the advert earlier than the closing date.

We do not require recruitment agency support at this time. Any speculative CVs will be treated as direct applications.