Senior Technical Officer - Waste

In this role you will help improve waste and recycling services for nearly a million residents, leading key facilities, projects, and contracts. You’ll shape service improvements in collaboration with partners and stakeholders while supporting major policy changes and net-zero ambitions. You will analyse data, manage budgets, and prepare clear briefings to inform decisions. This is an opportunity to impact waste strategy and delivery at scale within a dynamic, changing environment.

• Manage facilities, projects, and contracts related to waste and recycling services
• Lead service improvements and change initiatives
• Analyse data and manage budgets and payments
• Prepare reports, develop policies and procedures, and briefings
• Collaborate with partners (Veolia, Brighton & Hove City Council, district/borough councils) to deliver outcomes
• Support major reforms (Environment Act, UK ETS, closed landfill, PFI expiry, future waste strategy)
• Translate policy into workable solutions and provide strategic guidance to decision-makers

• Significant strategic experience in the waste industry
• Experience developing and maintaining effective partnerships
• Ability to take on new and complex areas of work and deliver
• Experience preparing reports and developing strategies/policy ideas for decision-making
• Self-motivated, able to work under pressure and translate policy into workable solutions

• Strong partnership-building
• Self-motivation and resilience
• Adaptability to learn quickly
• Data analysis
• Budget management and payments
• Policy development and procedural design