Project Manager Waste Services

The Role

Herefordshire Council are seeking an experienced Project Manager for the Waste Management department to successfully deliver waste collection service changes and procurement of new waste disposal services.

What will you be doing?

Working with our award winning waste team, you will be leading and managing waste-related projects from initiation to completion, ensuring alignment with council objectives and delivery plans.

• Scope, plan, and manage projects with clear objectives and deliverables.
• Develop business cases and communication plans
• Coordinate project teams and stakeholders.
• Maintain documentation, governance, and communication.
• Monitor and report on budgets (up to and over £1 million).
• Report risks, issues, and performance to stakeholders..
• Close projects effectively and capture lessons learned

About You

You’ll be a successful and dynamic project manager able to demonstrate:

• Educated to degree level, management qualification or relevant experience
• Be a PRINCE2 Practitioner, have an APM PFQ qualification or equivalent project management qualification or relevant experience and be experienced in:
• Delivery of medium to large-scale capital projects in construction or infrastructure and delivery of services.
• Use of project management methodologies, systems, and frameworks.
• Leading and facilitating project boards and workshops.
• Procurement of services and contracts, including working with legal and commercial professionals.
• Familiarity with governance processes, decision-making structures, and council strategic objectives.
• Experience in benefits tracking, risk management, and producing robust project documentation.

The Waste Management Team

We are a friendly and successful team, demonstrated through winning LARACs 2024 Team of The Year award. We work in a busy environment ensuring service delivery to every household across the county along with many business customers. In 2021 the Council adopted a new Integrated Waste Management Strategy with far reaching ambitions and new targets to cut carbon, increase waste minimisation, reuse, recycling and composting activities. We are looking to successfully roll out new collection services to help meet these ambitions and are looking to procure new waste disposal services from 2029 following the end of our long term disposal arrangements.

We Offer

A competitive salary, holiday entitlement, and access to our contributory pension and staff benefits scheme, which includes:

• Salary range of £46,142- £50,269 (HC10)
• Enrolment in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Career progression: clear pathways to progress
• Annual Leave: 31 days’ annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum during the request period
• Flexible working
• Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 access to support and counselling
• Payment of professional membership fees (based on role requirements)
• Pick your perks – our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits. This includes savings, cash back and discounts.

Why Choose Us?

Herefordshire is big hearted, welcoming and friendly. We have strong and independent communities and idyllic countryside, situated in the South West Midlands and bordering Wales. The county sits between Worcestershire and the Malvern Hills to the east, and Bannau Brycheiniog (the Brecon Beacons) in Wales to the west.

Historically Herefordshire has been the gateway to the Marches. We embrace partnership working. We are a member of the Marches Forward Partnership, which is a cross border collaboration between Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Powys and Shropshire who are collectively working to secure funding to invest in the region.

The council priorities over the next four years are set out in the Council Plan, with four main areas;

People: We will enable residents to realise their potential, to be healthy and to be part of great communities who support each other. We want all children to have the best start in life.

Place: We will protect and enhance our environment and ensure that Herefordshire is a great place to live. We will support the right housing in the right place, we will support access to green spaces and we will do everything we can to recover the health of our rivers.

Growth: We will create the conditions to deliver sustainable growth across the county; attracting inward investment, building business confidence, creating jobs, enabling housing development along with providing the right infrastructure.

Transformation: We will be an efficient council that embraces best practice, delivers innovation through technology and demonstrates value for money.

Don’t meet all parts of the job description?

Herefordshire Council is committed to strengthening a diverse and inclusive work environment which reflects the communities of Herefordshire. If you are looking at the next stage of your career and have a broad base of fieldwork experience, we can provide supportive and welcoming opportunities to help you develop your professional, management & supervisory skills.

Reasonable Adjustments

Our recruitment process runs in partnership with Hoople Resourcing. If you require any reasonable adjustments or alternative methods for the online application process, please contact the resourcing team by email: [email protected].

Creating an inclusive workplace

We encourage our employees to feel empowered and to use their voices to help embrace diversity, promote inclusivity and shape our organisation. We have eight employee network groups, collectives of colleagues who often share identities, life experiences or cultures and offer support and community. They also play an important role in strengthening the voices of employees at Herefordshire Council. Embedded in the Council's values is a commitment to listen to people's views and needs.

For more information on our Employee Network Groups please view our dedicated recruitment website: www.spiritofherefordshire.com.

Commitments, Covenants and Statutory Obligations

The following candidates will be interviewed if they meet the essential criteria for the post they are applying for:

• Those who indicate that they have a disability. This is part of our commitment to the “Disability Confident” scheme.
• Those who indicate in their application that they are an Armed Forces Veteran or Reservist. This is part of our pledge to support the Armed Forces Covenant.
• Those who indicate in their application that they are a Herefordshire care leaver. This is part of our commitment to supporting young people leaving our care.

We take our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults seriously and expect all of our staff, visitors and volunteers to share in this commitment.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children & young people and vulnerable adults. If you are offered this position, it will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Closing date: Monday 3rd November 2025 12:00 midday
Interview date: Friday 14th November 2025