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Job Title: Operations Manager
Location: Highview Farm, Newyears Green Lane, Harefield, Middlesex, UB9 6LX
Salary: Dependant on Experience
Job Type: Full time/ Permanent
Working Hours: 50hrs per week, Mon - Fri
About Us:
Envar is a producer and supplier of high quality soil improver, woodland garden mulch, wood chip and biomass. We operate green waste composting sites across England with sites in Surrey, Northamptonshire, West London, Essex, Kent and Suffolk as well as our flagship site in Cambridgeshire where we also process food waste. In addition to composting Envar also recycle coffee grounds.
About the role:
We are looking for an Operations Manager to manage day to day site operations of the West London Composting Facility including the transfer station and commercial units.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Uphold Health and Safety and Environmental compliance across the site and third-party suppliers
- Arranging site operations to ensure that optimum throughput is achieved at the desired level
- Ensuring that KPIs are reported, delivered and targets met
- Ensuring that there is sufficient labour resource to satisfy input and output requirements
- Ability to ensure that sufficient space is available to receive incoming waste according to predictions
- Ensure that plant and machinery is fit for purpose, serviced and compliant with all legislation
- Produce CAPEX plans to ensure that plant and machinery is replaced in a timely manner
- Review reports to determine profitability and areas of improvement
- Maintain a positive outlook and attitude about the organisation and its goals, this will directly translate to how the staff takes on challenges and processes changes
- Aid in marketing and public relations for the company
- Reporting of key financial indicators on a timely manner when requested
- Create a competent team on site
About you:
Essentials:
- Experience of managing a team and have sound understanding of the machinery which it operates
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in order to work with, provide advice to, train, and promote excellence operational efficiencies
- The ability to organise and prioritise workload
- A flexible approach to working hours, ability to travel to other sites within the Envar Group (infrequent)
- Knowledge of machinery operations
- Knowledge of business process and functions (finance, HR, procurement, operations etc.)
- Strong ability to assess time it takes to perform a task
- IOSH
- COTC for all relevant activities on site under direct responsibility
- Develop a positive health and safety culture
- Provide guidance and advice to management
Desirable:
- Working towards IOSH
- Working towards COTC for all relevant activities on site under direct responsibility
Benefits:
- Life Insurance with access to GP24
- Commitment to wellbeing through Employee Assistance Programme
- Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme for eligible employees
- Cycle to work scheme
- Company Events
- GymFlex salary sacrifice
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Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of Site Manager, Recycling Operations Manager, General Manager, Site Operations Manager, Recycling Centre Operations Supervisor, Ops Manager, Environmental Site Manager may also be considered.
