Manager Trade Waste Operations
CurrentResponsible for leading a team to manage the day-to-day engagement with over 11,000 trade waste customers to ensure the protection of people, assets, treatment processes, maximise reuse of wastewater by-products and the environment by ensuring compliant trade waste is discharged into the sewer network. This includes managing a team of Trade Waste Operation Team Leaders and Trade Waste Officers to directly engage with customers in the field to undertake monitoring, assessment of customers treatment plants and discharge quality. This includes management of trade waste consents and ensuring the appropriate risk ranking and requirements are in place.• Lead a high achieving team of people, by promoting and delivering excellent service standards in accordance with business objectives• Lead a team of field-based trade waste officers providing customer service to and monitoring regulatory compliance of over 11,000 customers across industrial and commercial trade waste in South East Water’s region. • Ensure appropriate systems are in place to maintain customer and trade waste data and to enable efficient and accurate workflow.• Drive development, delivery and evaluation of a range of high-level trade waste strategies, policies, projects and initiatives to optimise and implement best practice in the trade waste field.• Using systems and programs, including financial, procurement, people, records, auditing, risk assessment and reporting, to progress and monitor organisational and employee performance and achievement, to ensure compliance with relevant policies and legislation.• Provide technical advice on trade waste management, including assessment, approval, monitoring and compliance• Ensure staff are fully trained and competent in trade waste officer functions• Build trusted relationships with customers while ensuring appropriate risk management and regulatory requirements are met• Ensure non-compliant cases are resolved in a timely and reasonable manner