Operations Manager – Waste Services
5 days ago
Rugby
Operations Manager – Waste Services (Interim / Service Recovery) Location Office-based, 5 days per week Duration 3 months initial contract (likely extension) Rate Flexible – please state your day rate The Role We are seeking an experienced Operations Manager to take immediate, hands-on responsibility for stabilising and improving Waste Services within a local authority setting. This is a frontline, operational role, not a purely strategic or advisory position. You will be embedded within the service, working closely with managers, supervisors, and crews to restore performance, improve standards, and ensure reliable day-to-day delivery. Key Responsibilities • Take direct control of day-to-day waste service operations, • Identify service failures, inefficiencies, and performance issues, and implement immediate practical solutions, • Provide visible, hands-on leadership to frontline teams, supervisors, and managers, • Improve route efficiency, workflows, and operational processes, • Ensure compliance with health & safety, statutory requirements, and council standards, • Monitor service performance, KPIs, and outputs, reporting regularly to senior leadership, • Support resource plann...