Waste Supervisor

Our client operates the city's waterfront event campus as well as a ticketing agency and a local hotel. Playing a leading role in shining a spotlight on Liverpool, they have successfully staged a wide array of national and international events, from shows and conventions, business gatherings to exhibitions, developing our offer over the last decade to that of a world-class provider of venue and event services.

They are looking to recruit a Waste Supervisor to join their Team.

The successful candidate will safely and efficiently manage all waste throughout the campus.

The ideal candidate will have experience of managing waste in a fast-paced commercial environment, ideally within the events industry, have experience of manual handling, COSHH regulations and a good understanding of H&S coupled with an understanding of recycling waste streams and sustainable practices.

The candidate should also have experience of supervising a team of operatives.

Main duties of this role include:

• To deliver the operational elements of the Group's waste strategy, by collecting, sorting and correctly disposing of all waste across the campus, including both event and non-event waste.
• Working with the Cleaning and waste manager to motivate and encourage all personnel under your supervision.
• Direct the team to undertake waste tasks as required to meet the responsibilities of this job role.
• To manage the movement of waste around the campus, ensuring safe working practices are always used.
• Keep accurate event waste data records to feed into the energy impact statements.
• Ensure the external campus is always kept litter free and is well maintained.
• Ensure that all equipment and machinery is safely and properly used by team members and that any faults are promptly reported and fixed.
• Ensure that safe work practices are followed by all team members.
• Maintain effective communications with the Cleaning and waste manager.
• Monitor casual and agency staff whilst on shift if applicable.
• Ensure any COSHH items are correctly stored in the relevant cleaning cupboards.
• Produce a weekly summary report for the Cleaning and Waste Manager of any tasks that are planned for the following week.
• Carry out toolbox talk with all team members as per the Operations and Venue Management programme, or as directed by the cleaning and waste manager.
• Undertake documented cleaning audits on the day-to-day cleaning elements of the building.
• Maintain PPE to ensure all issued PPE is worn when and where appropriate and stored carefully in the lockers provided when not in use.

They highly value the behaviours, attitudes and skills which will help you to develop and excel in this role. In this case, they re looking for someone who is:

• Resilient
• Pragmatic
• Confident
• Customer facing

In addition to the above, the candidate will need to be enthusiastic, like minded and complement their experienced and talented team. If you have drive, passion, ambition and wish to play a part in the group s continuing success story this could be just the job for you.

Company Benefits

They are an award winning, world class venue and their people are at the heart of everything that they do. Recognition and reward is of huge importance to them, and just some of the benefits staff can enjoy include:

• An enhanced holiday scheme, starting with 240 hours (inclusive of BH), which increases with length of service.
• An excellent pension scheme is available.
• Access to a premium health care policy, which includes an employee assistant line, contributions towards a wide range of medical costs, such as dental and optical and staff discounts.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes.
• An excellent occupational sick pay scheme.
• Free onsite parking right in the heart of the city centre.
• Employee Reward Platform.
• A dedicated wellbeing strategy to support staff when at work.
• 27 Qualified Mental Health First Aiders on site.

The group is a place where you can truly make a difference. Some of the wonderful things they have achieved/continue to work towards:

• Disability Confident Employer
• Member of the Fair Employment Charter
• Real Living Wage employer
• Social value impact plan - last year we contributed over GBP6.4m
• Green Meeting s Gold Standard
• Sustainability Strategy
• Positively influencing biodiversity in the grounds of our campus, we have 3 beehives
• Carbon Neutral Campus
• Accessibility Strategy
• AccessAble Guide

Closing Date: 23rd April 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 28th April 2025

Please note, our client may close this vacancy before the stated closing date if they receive sufficient applications for the position. Therefore, if you are interested in this position, please submit your application form as soon as possible.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

They know the value of having a diverse and representative team across their organisation. They promote equal opportunities, and are committed to having an inclusive work force where everybody feels respected, are treated fairly and diversity is celebrated. As such they strongly encourage and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates from all members of the community regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion, belief or sexual orientation.