Hwrc Contract Officer

HWRC Contract Officer - Cumbria
Salary: up to GBP31,500 per annum
37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday
Renewi manages 14 Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC) under a 25-year contract with Cumberland Council. We're seeking an HWRC Officer to ensure compliance with contractual obligations. This role involves extensive travel throughout Cumbria, maintaining high operational and safety standards for these public-facing sites.
Your key responsibilities:
• Conduct weekly on-site inspections of Contractor Operational Compliance.
• Identify, report, and resolve Performance Failures in collaboration with Sub-Contractors.
• Perform regular on-site Health and Safety Inspections, liaising with Sub-Contractors and our SHEQ department.
• Manage the planned maintenance programme and arrange for reactive repair and maintenance of site infrastructure and plant in accordance with the Asset Management Plan and procure and supervise Sub-Contractors and suppliers carrying out maintenance and repair works ensuring compliance with Health & Safety standards
• Maintain accurate records, including expenditure, maintenance logs, and incident reports
• Assist in the review and revision of Risk Assessments, Operational Procedures, and Service Delivery Plans
• Contribute to the production of the Monthly Monitoring Report for our customer
• Participate in contractual meetings with our customer and subcontractors
This role will require that you acquire a detailed knowledge and understanding of the contractual obligations under both the Project Agreement and Sub Contracts. You will need to be pro-active and self-motivated to learn and apply this specialist knowledge on an ongoing daily basis. You will use your knowledge and problem solving skills to identify areas for improvement and work closely with our customer and our Sub-Contractor to help to deliver those improvements.
Essential Criteria:
• You will be a highly personable individual with a keen eye for detail, and a real passion for driving operational excellence
• To be successful in this role you will need to develop effective working relationships with your partner HWRC Officer, our Sub-Contractor and our customer and be an excellent communicator.
• Previous experience of the management of contractors and supervision of infrastructure maintenance
• Highly organised and able to work unsupervised, meeting deadlines whilst maintaining high standards
• Ideally hold IOSH Managing Safely or other equivalent Health & Safety qualification
• Experience of working within a SLA based contractual environment, such as Facilities Management
• Full clean driving licence
What do we offer you?
• A competitive salary
• Enhanced employer contribution pension plan
• 33 days' annual leave entitlement including statutory holidays
• Access to our Sharesave scheme - Your chance to own shares in the business you work so hard for
• Numerous opportunities for career development, we have a history of promoting from within
• Access to Renewi wellbeing and reward platform from Day 1
• Company vehicle provided alongside all other required resource to assist you in succeeding in this role
Will you become our new HWRC Contract Officer?
Want to know more? Please contact our Talent Acquisition team today!
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
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