# Depot Manager

**Company**: Biffa
**Location**: Atherstone, England
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Waste Management
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4904749

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## Description

As a Depot Manager in Atherstone, you will take overall responsibility for the day-to-day operations of Biffa's Atherstone Transfer Station and Packaged Goods Transport operation.

You will lead a team of 10 and be responsible for delivering safe, compliant, and efficient operations while driving customer service, financial performance, and continuous improvement.

Your core responsibilities:

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of 10, creating a strong culture of safety, engagement, accountability, and continuous improvement.

- Take overall responsibility for the site's health, safety, and environmental performance, ensuring compliance with legislation, permits, and company standards.

- Drive operational excellence by ensuring the right people, plant, and processes are in place to deliver an efficient and effective service.

- Manage customer requirements, site capacity, bookings, and resources to ensure service levels and OTIF targets are consistently achieved.

- Take ownership of the depot's financial performance, managing costs, budgets, and P&L performance while identifying opportunities to improve profitability.

- Monitor site KPIs and performance, identifying areas for improvement and taking action to deliver against operational, compliance, and commercial targets.

- Work collaboratively with regional and national teams to optimise transport, processing, and disposal costs and develop innovative service solutions.

- Support new projects and continuous improvement initiatives, while ensuring the depot is prepared for future legislative, customer, and operational requirements.

Essential requirements:

- Experience managing an operational team within the hazardous waste industry, ideally within a hazardous waste transfer or physical-chemical treatment environment.

- A degree in Chemistry, a related science discipline or Engineering, alongside IOSH Managing Safely or an equivalent qualification.

- Strong knowledge of hazardous waste legislation, with an understanding of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001.

- Proven leadership experience, with the ability to coach, motivate, and develop a mixed-skilled team in a busy operational environment.

- Strong organisational, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and make decisions confidently.

- Experience with risk assessments, method statements, incident investigations, and performance management, alongside good IT skills including Microsoft Office.

Benefits:

- Ongoing career development, training, and coaching

- Car allowance

- Generous pension scheme

- Medical and dental scheme

- Retail and leisure discounts

- Holiday and travel discounts

- Bike to work scheme

## Skills

### Required
- hazardous waste legislation
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- ISO 45001
- leadership
- team management
- risk assessments
- method statements
- incident investigations
- performance management
- Microsoft Office

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