Site Manager

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Site Manager
(Recycling & Waste Operations)
Location: Blackburn

Sector: Environmental Services / Waste Management / Production
Salary: up to £45,000 negotiable + Bonus + Benefits
Hours: Full-time, Permanent
Are you a hands-on Site Manager with a passion for operational efficiency, compliance, and improving processes?
Do you enjoy leading people, driving performance, and ensuring a safe, well-run site?
If so, this is a great opportunity to take ownership of day-to-day operations at a growing recycling facility with strong demand, clear KPIs, and a positive environmental impact.
The Opportunity
As Site Manager, you'll oversee the daily throughput of materials, ensuring the efficient processing of associated commodities. You'll be responsible for workforce planning, cost control, reporting, audits, and maintaining a safe, compliant and high-performing site.
This is a leadership role with operational autonomy ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving production, recycling, waste, or materials handling environments.
What You'll Be Doing
Allocating labour and shift resources within agreed budgets
Managing operational throughput and improving productivity
Ensuring correct segregation, quality control and commodity standards
Leading stock management, inbound deliveries and outbound loads
Booking transport and overseeing load planning
Producing accurate weekly computerised reports and KPI updates
Maintaining purchase orders, petty cash, audits and paperwork
Managing site compliance documentation (WAN, WTN, SCN)
Conducting performance reviews and managing staff conduct
Driving a culture of continuous improvement, waste minimisation and housekeeping
Ensuring machinery is operated correctly, safely and maintained (incl. FLT & baler)
Upholding high standards of safety, compliance and environmental responsibility
Running inductions, H&S briefings, fire drills and accident reporting
Supporting the Operations Manager with projects and improvement initiatives
About You
You'll be a proactive leader who enjoys improving processes, coaching teams and ensuring the site runs safely and efficiently. You'll understand how to balance operational demands, production targets, quality standards and compliance obligations.
Essential Qualifications & Requirements
WAMITAB certification (COTC competent)
IOSH (Managing Safely or equivalent)
First Aid qualification
Strong organisational, reporting and record-keeping skills
Experience managing people in a production, recycling, waste, or logistics environment
Confident working to strict safety, compliance and audit standards
Why Join?
Be part of a growing recycling and environmental services operation
Real leadership responsibility full ownership of site performance
Supportive Operations Manager and wider leadership structure
Opportunity to deliver real improvements, efficiencies and sustainability outcomes
Autonomy to shape culture, compliance and operational excellence

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Location:
Mellor
Salary:
£45,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Construction

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