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Contract Manager (Municipal waste)
Salary: £57,000-£62,000 per annum depending on skills and experience plus bonus, company car/cash allowance, medical cover and pension
Hours: Full time, Monday to Friday - 40 hours per week
Location: Tendring, Essex
When you see the world as we do, you see the chance to help the world take better care of its resources, and help it become a better place for everyone. It’s why we’re looking for someone who’s just as committed as we are, to push for genuine change and bring our ambition of Ecological Transformation to life.
We know that everyone here at Veolia can help us work alongside our communities, look after the environment, and contribute to our inclusive culture.
What we can offer you;
Eligible for an annual performance bonus
Option to choose from a company car or car allowance
Private medical cover
25 days of annual leave
Access to our company pension scheme
One paid days leave every year to volunteer and support your community
Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential
What you'll be doing;
Lead the team to deliver the Tendring municipal contract in line with defined contract KPIs and specifications.
Develop and maintain relations with key stakeholders; client, members, residents, staff, unions.
Manage resources (people, vehicles, equipment) to best effect prioritising the wellbeing of our people and service to our customer and communities.
Ensure compliance against the VMR standard, supporting assurance checks and improvement planning to enhance contract performance and customer service.
Ensure the commercial performance of the contract overseeing all expenditure, staffing and resources.
Assess management team competency including observing them carrying out their role (crew monitoring, PDR, team briefings).
Set and present budgets and manage monthly financial performance.
Deliver the contract against required budgets and KPIs
Managing people & assets to deliver efficient & profitable service.
Maintain a compliant and well run fleet of vehicles.
Seek efficiencies to maximise contract performance.
Utilise data to improve operational performance.
What we're looking for;
Previous waste management & fleet management experience or operational management experience of frontline services
Previous experience managing P&L.
IOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) Managing Safely or equivalent.
Client Management experience.
Level 3 Leadership & Management or equivalent work experience.
What’s next?
Apply today, so we can make a difference for generations to come.
We're proud to have been named as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work for three consecutive years in 2023, 2024 and 2025. This consistent recognition reflects our commitment to our people, demonstrating that Veolia is not just transforming the environment, we're also transforming what it means to have a rewarding, purposeful career.
We're dedicated to supporting you throughout your application journey, offering adjustments where reasonable and appropriate. As a proud Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who opt-in to the Disability Confident scheme, and meet the minimum criteria for our roles.
We're also committed to ensuring that all applicants and colleagues receive fair treatment without discrimination on any grounds, aiming to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
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What We Do
Veolia UK provides solutions for ecological transformation. We are a company of almost 14,000 employees, although we prefer to think of ourselves as “resourcers”. Every day across the country our “resourcers” design and deploy useful and concrete solutions, which help our customers fight against climate change, prevent pollution of our water and create a circular economy where nothing goes to waste. Every year, we serve around 1.8 million people through our municipal wastewater contracts. We complete over 400 million waste collections across our Local Authority contracts, serving over 3 million residential properties; and we treat over 1.5 million tonnes of commercial and industrial waste from our 85,000 private customers. We also produce over 560 MWe of renewable and low carbon electricity, to power over 1.3 million homes. Veolia UK is an exciting and innovative place to work, but don't just take our word for it - we were named as one of the top 10 'Very Big Organisations' to work for in The Sunday Times' Best Places to Work 2024. We're resourcing the world through our purpose of ecological transformation, and we're doing this by working together to constantly progress. We are reinventing the way things work to reduce our environmental impact and increase efficiency, whether in the reuse of wastewater or the recovery of waste, such as plastics. At the same time, we anticipate the needs of tomorrow with innovative solutions that will decarbonise our energy and heating demands. We do this through the development of microgrids and energy management through our Hubgrade solution, which optimises the management of resources using digital and artificial intelligence. We are driven by optimism and passion, not to see the world as it is, but how it should be; and we are tenacious in our efforts to achieve our goals. These aren't just empty words
