Job Description

Operations Supervisor

We’re looking for a motivated and hands-on Supervisor to lead our recycling, waste collection. This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a key leadership role where your decisions make a real impact on local communities and environmental services.

Working closely with the Operations Manager, you’ll take ownership of daily operations, ensuring services run smoothly, safely, and efficiently.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading and coordinating daily operations – from crew deployment to vehicle and equipment allocation
• Ensuring services are delivered on time and meet contractual standards
• Managing and supporting frontline teams, including performance, attendance, and development
• Overseeing schedules and resources to keep everything running efficiently
• Promoting a strong health & safety culture and ensuring full compliance
• Monitoring performance and quickly resolving operational issues
• Building strong relationships with Local Authority clients and stakeholders
• Identifying ways to improve services and drive additional value

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in a supervisory or team leader role (waste, logistics, or similar operational environment preferred)
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
• Confident communicator with the ability to lead and motivate teams
• Good understanding of health & safety practices
• Full, valid UK driving licence (able to drive vehicles up to 3.5T).

Requirements

Benefits

And here’s why you’ll love it at Biffa.

• Ongoing career development, training and coaching – because if you don’t grow, we don’t grow.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Medical and dental scheme.
• Retail and leisure discounts.
• Holiday and travel discounts.
• Bike to work scheme.

Changing the way people think about waste.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,500+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull.

Dedicated to diversity.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.