Jobs at Biffa

Supports daily recycling-centre operations by assisting visitors with waste sorting, maximizing segregation, preventing non-compliant waste, and maintaining a clean, safe, organized site. The role involves outdoor work, customer service, teamwork, independent problem-solving, and proactive site maintenance in a dynamic recycling environment.

The Bid Writer develops high-quality public sector tender submissions, method statements, and quality responses. Responsibilities include managing compliance matrices, coordinating bid content and deadlines, preparing internal reports, gathering information from cross-functional teams, and maintaining bid libraries and templates. The role supports continuous improvement of bid-writing capability and commercial performance while ensuring submissions meet client requirements and demonstrate value, innovation, and compliance.

Manage contract data integrity, performance reporting, KPI and SLA monitoring, compliance governance, audits, and continuous improvement. Produce dashboards and management information, analyze operational performance, identify risks and root causes, and coordinate compliance documentation, training records, environmental requirements, and external accreditation audits.

Manage complex waste management contracts across the Northwest, serving as the primary client contact and ensuring compliance, safety, service quality, retention, and profitability. Responsibilities include account growth, pricing negotiations, monthly reporting, P&L management, waste minimisation, continuous improvement, and coaching site teams. The role also supports specialist projects, emergency response, and hazardous waste services.

Identify and secure new business opportunities in the waste and resource management sector. Build relationships with prospective customers, manage the sales pipeline, lead opportunities from initial contact through contract award, and support growth targets. The remote-based role requires regular travel to customer sites and meetings.

Operate a household waste recycling centre, helping visitors segregate materials, supporting weighbridge transactions, maintaining skips and equipment, completing housekeeping and litter-picking duties, and ensuring site safety, environmental compliance, and effective recycling. The role involves working as part of a small team and providing support at other regional sites when required.

Operate household waste recycling centres safely and efficiently, assisting the public with waste disposal, directing site traffic, maintaining clean and organized facilities, completing records, monitoring safety, and reporting incidents. The role also supports waste collection, street cleansing, and municipal recycling activities. Candidates must work effectively in a team, operate machinery, follow health and safety procedures, work with minimal supervision, and hold a UK driving licence.

Manages supervisors and depot teams delivering recycling, waste collection, and street cleansing services. Ensures safe, compliant, reliable operations; maintains client relationships; achieves contract KPIs, budgets, and revenue targets; oversees training, performance, equipment, vehicles, reporting, and health and safety. The role also drives continuous improvement and addresses operational, employee, and customer issues.

Designs and delivers apprenticeship, graduate, internship, and work experience programmes. Leads recruitment campaigns, outreach, mentoring, development, university and training-provider partnerships, impact measurement, inclusion initiatives, and social mobility programmes. Collaborates with internal stakeholders and government-backed initiatives to build early-career talent pipelines and support long-term retention and progression.

Manage the day-to-day workshop operation for a fleet of waste collection vehicles and equipment, ensuring availability, compliance, safety, productivity, and downtime control. Responsibilities include scheduling inspections and repairs, supervising workshop staff, maintaining records, overseeing hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical fault diagnosis, and partnering with depot operations. The role requires strong HGV maintenance expertise, supervisory experience, an HGV licence, and knowledge of DVSA and Operator Licence requirements.

Supervise rotating-shift operations in a waste refinement plant, ensuring safety, environmental compliance, productivity, availability, and cost control. Manage operational resources, material movements, inventory, pest control, contractors, maintenance scheduling, inspections, and housekeeping. Maintain operational records, investigate downtime, monitor KPIs, implement corrective actions, and lead continuous improvement projects. The role also involves shift planning, people management, HR processes, and compliance with company standards and legislation.

Schedules planned and corrective engineering maintenance work across shifts, manages PPM programs and CMMS scheduling, supports statutory inspections, safety compliance, stores control, parts preparation, suppliers, contractors, and maintenance KPI delivery. The role also assists with plant downtime diagnosis, continuous improvement, project planning, risk assessments, method statements, and compliance with engineering, health, safety, and environmental standards.

Operate forklifts, front-end loaders, 360 excavators, and mobile grabs to handle materials, feed process plant, stockpile products, and load vehicles. Perform housekeeping, basic maintenance, equipment inspections, cleaning, record keeping, and traffic control while complying with site permits and health and safety requirements. Coordinate with internal teams and external hauliers to support timely material dispatch.

Manages daily depot transport operations, including vehicle allocation, route planning, vehicle utilisation, driver availability, compliance, safety checks, maintenance coordination, payroll, timesheets, tachograph records, and reporting. The role also supports cost-efficiency, customer service, employee engagement, and operational improvement initiatives while maintaining health, safety, environmental, and O licence standards.

Operate a household waste recycling centre safely and efficiently. Assist the public with waste disposal and segregation, direct site traffic, monitor compliance with site licence requirements, handle hazardous waste, maintain cleanliness and site safety, complete records, prevent unauthorised tipping, and deliver professional customer service. The role is outdoors in all weather, includes weekend and bank holiday work, and requires teamwork, reliability, communication skills, and a strong commitment to health and safety.

Supervise day-to-day operations across Somerset Recycling Centres, leading site teams, managing staffing, equipment, budgets and performance. Ensure health, safety, environmental and regulatory compliance while coordinating maintenance, audits, incident investigations and corrective actions. The role also involves managing client, contractor, regulator and customer relationships, improving recycling efficiency, and maintaining excellent service standards across multiple contracted sites.

Manages day-to-day recycling site operations, overseeing production, safety, compliance, performance, budgets, reporting, and continuous improvement. Leads multidisciplinary teams, monitors operational targets such as downtime and yields, addresses safety non-conformities, supports environmental and permit compliance, and deputises for the Site Manager when required.

Analyze engineering, fleet, maintenance, financial, and operational data; build Power BI dashboards; develop Power Platform workflows and applications; improve data quality, reporting, automation, and business processes; support engineering systems, asset management, capital programs, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Supports daily finance activities, purchase order processing, invoice preparation, month-end and year-end accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost control, council reporting, and audit data preparation. The role provides management information and supports the Financial Controller while maintaining accurate financial records and meeting strict deadlines.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines, integration solutions, and data platforms using Microsoft Fabric and Azure technologies. Develops ingestion, transformation, storage, and orchestration processes for structured and semi-structured data. Partners with business and technical teams to deliver trusted data products, while ensuring data quality, security, performance, monitoring, and availability. Contributes to data architecture, governance, documentation, troubleshooting, optimization, and knowledge transfer.