Operations Manager

Pendle Borough Council are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Operations Manager to join their Waste Services team.

The Waste Services team, on behalf of Operational Services, deliver critical, essential and income generating services throughout the Borough of Pendle.  More widely, the service area has a major role in delivering key milestones for the Council and as such we are looking to recruit a person with proven service delivery experience and desire to improve the service whilst working towards meeting the challenges that East Lancashire, District colleagues and the County as a whole will face over the coming years.

The postholder will have day-to-day responsibility of overseeing a wide range of services and will take direct lead for a team of supervisors and approximately 60 full time frontline employees.

Pendle Borough Council offers an excellent work-life balance including flexitime with no core hours, up to 2 days flexi leave a month, compressed working options and up to 31 days annual leave.

The Council’s benefits package includes an excellent Local Government Pension Scheme, generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional annual leave, a cycle to work scheme, home tech and car scheme salary sacrifice schemes.  You will also be rewarded with access to our benefits programme, Viv up, which provides easy access to unbeatable discounts for retailers such as Argos, M&S, B&Q, Currys PC World, etc.

We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.  Pendle Borough Council does not discriminate on any basis of disability, sex, marriage or civil partnership, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, or maternity.