Waste and Sustainability Manager

Job Introduction

How does a 4-day week sound? Here at Sodexo, we have an excellent opportunity for a Waste and Sustainability Manager to provide impactful and innovative support across a high profile client site in Weybridge.

In this role, you will work closely with our client to manage waste across three sites, incorporating their R&D business and global HQ, taking a consultative approach to reducing waste, adhering to compliance, and providing innovative solutions. Your focus will be to provide oversight to ensure the safe and compliant delivery of Environmental Services and to ensure all legislative and client requirements are met for all waste streams managed by Sodexo.

This is a great opportunity for a customer focused individual to join a world leading food and facilities management company, which can offer unrivalled opportunities for career progression. We are looking for someone with strong customer relationship/ influencing skills and consistent waste management experience; scientific experience/qualifications would be ideal.

Role Responsibility

What you’ll do:

• Ensure all aspects of Health & Safety, Environment and Quality Assurance within Environmental Services are compliant
• Legislative compliance. Ensuring that all aspects of waste operations under your responsibility are conducted in accordance with all relevant statutory requirements and Codes of Practice.
• Ensure routine waste collection and associated paperwork are completed safely, efficiently, and effectively.
• Work with science customer groups to ensure all waste are correctly handled and disposed of, to provide training to customers as required.
• Manage all project waste on site
• Work with client to review all waste streams on site to see if a more sustainable solution can we found.
• Work with QEHS manager to ensure all systems are compliant in regard to waste management.

For a full list of responsibilities please view the attached job description

The Ideal Candidate

What you bring:

• Extensive knowledge of all aspects of UK Waste Regulations.
• Qualification or relevant consistent experience in Waste Management Operations, preferably Pharmaceutical.
• Ideally a science-based degree or equivalent
• Financial acumen
• Valid driving licence.
• Basic chemical safety and awareness.
• Experience in auditing waste operations.
• Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Computer literate in Word and Excel.

Package Description

Up to £35,000pa + excellent benefits

Location: Weybridge KT13

Permanent Part Time

Work Pattern – 30 hrs pw

What we offer:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we offer:

• Flexible and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Access to ongoing training and development programs
• Countless opportunities to grow within the company
• Full training

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more!

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process