This is the perfect time to join St Helens and become part of our exhilarating journey and help build our legacy for the future. Now more than ever, we need to drive innovative change across our services, enabling the Council to take the next step in delivering its ambitious agenda and adapting collectively to a changing world and achieve our carbon zero goals.

This is a key role in the new Environment and Operations team, with this role leading the management of the Council’s fleet of over 200 vehicles including our first hydrogen refuse collection vehicle, development of a new operational depot and the enhancement of our security and CCTV teams. This role will be involved in leading, commissioning, procuring, specifying and co-ordinating a range of services focusing on the delivery and change.

Professional qualifications, and managing professional & technical staff, including personnel matters, proven track record of significant knowledge of fleet and waste industries, knowledge of Environmental legislation and policies are all essential for this post. It is essential the post holder has specialist technical experience and holds CPC in Transport Management and Operations; and COTC - WAMITAB Level 4 qualification.

Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 NOLAN principles of conduct in public life. These include selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.

We welcome applications from the BAME community.

For an informal discussion, please contact Trevor Nicoll, Assistant Director of Environment and Operations on 07874 641500 or TrevorNicoll@sthelens.gov.uk