Agricultural Recycling Manager

Purpose

Due to continued success and growth, my client is recruiting for a full-time Agricultural Recycling Manager to join their team.

The job holder is responsible for the day to day management and delivery of recycling service contracts. This involves liaison with both producer and farmer clients, supervising land-spreading activities, sourcing & securing new farm outlets, assist with planning and directing HGV movements.

You will also need to gather and prepare the information required for the technical team to submit permit applications to the regulatory body, such as mapping, previous fertiliser applications, cropping details, site assessments, risk assessments & method statements, soil sampling. This role requires a good level of IT competence.

To provide competent advice and guidance to farmer clients, as well as ensuring Health and Safety requirements are met and all aspects of environmental compliance.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

What you need to do:

• Interact effectively with clients, land-owners, suppliers and environmental regulators
• Securing suitable outlets for recycling operations (agricultural land or land restoration sites)
• Manage sub-contractors and land-spreading applications
• Carry out field pollution risk assessments, mapping, data collection, post application inspections, stockpile storage management, RAMS
• Collection and submission of soil, water and product samples for laboratory analyses
• Provide data and reporting to the wider business via a variety of IT software packages- excel,word and mapping software
• Occasionally provide holiday or sick cover for site operators
• Assist with the organising & manage HGV movements between client production sites and recycling outlets
• Responsible for cost control and operating within contract budgets
• Ensuring all activities comply with applicable regulations, defined Health & Safety standards, Quality Management Systems and ISO accreditations

Shared Duties

What everyone does:

• To act as an ambassador for the Group at all times.
• Health and Safety: to work to and follow all safety regulations under prevailing legislation and any relevant policies and job risk assessment.
• Quality Management Systems: to be aware, understand and work to the requirements under the Group’s external accreditations including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001.
• Teamworking: the nature of work and the size of the team requires everyone to be flexible. The job descriptions are not intended to be exhaustive, and you may be required to complete such reasonable additional or other responsibilities and tasks to help the team as the Group may need from time to time.

Personal Specification

What you should have:

Qualifications / Experience/ Knowledge

• Agricultural experience/knowledge required
• An understanding of the benefits of by-products as fertilisers and soil conditioners advantageous
• Knowledge of environmental issues affecting soils, air & water
• FACTS / WAMITAB qualification would be an advantage
• Basic understanding of the waste regulatory environment in the UK and Experience of contract management
• IT: user of MS Word, Excel, Outlook and familiar with a mobile and flexible working environment
• Knowledge of mapping, grid references, what 3 words software.

Skills/Competencies

• Excellent service and communication skills verbal and written
• Commitment to relationship management and client satisfaction
• Excellent attention to detail especially for record keeping
• Good planning, organising and time management skills
• Full clean driving licence & Right to Work in UK.

Benefits

• Company car and fuel card
• 33 days inclusive of public holidays plus Birthday day off
• Pension, Life assurance and Company sick benefits, SAGE employee benefits scheme and Cycle to work Scheme
• All mandatory training paid by company, one professional membership & encouragement for continuing professional development

 The Company offers a great working culture, opportunity for significant personal development and progression within the Company and a whole lot more.

This is a full time position with a mixture of home/office-based working, on  farm/agricultural sites with  occasional visits to the office in Knottigley and Newent.