Street Cleansing and Grounds Maintenance Manager
- Employer
- Essex County Council
- Location
- England, Essex, Braintree
- Salary
- £39868.0000 - £44068.0000 per annum
- Closing date
- 28 Jan 2025
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- Sector
- Public and Third sector
- Contract Type
- Full time
Job Details

Street Cleansing and Grounds Maintenance Manager - Braintree District Council
Braintree District Council
Permanent, Full Time
£39,868 to £44,068 per annum
Location: Braintree
Closing Date: Midnight on Sunday 2nd February 2025
Essex County Council (ECC) are delighted to be supporting Braintree Council to recruit this Street Cleansing and Grounds Maintenance Manager
To Apply for this role please click here: Street Cleansing and Grounds Maintenance Manager
The Opportunity:
Now is an exciting time to be joining Braintree District Council, as we are reviewing our services to ensure they are fit for the future. It is an important time of transition, and we are looking to recruit someone to drive innovation and ensure the provision of excellent services.
In this key role, you will manage teams across a diverse range of services, including Street Cleansing, Grounds Maintenance/Amenity, Horticulture and Open Spaces. These teams provide essential services to the community and visitors to the District - from play areas and nature reserves to car parks and street cleanliness.
You will manage the day-to-day operation of the teams, including performance management, recruitment, learning and development, team building, sickness absence management and discipline.
Your duties will include:
- Managing and overseeing the provision of high-quality customer focused services provided by the Street Scene Teams, ensuring they are responsive to change and embrace best practice in terms of efficiency and high performance.
- Providing operational leadership, support, motivation and development to the supervisors/team leaders.
- Managing and supervising external contractors involved in the day-to-day delivery of services.
- Regularly review working practices and procedures to optimise the best use of resources.
- Managing, and assisting in managing, corporate projects as and when directed by the Operations Manager.
- Assisting in managing the budgets including monitoring expenditure for all the respective areas within the reporting lines.
- Monitoring levels of sickness absence and take appropriate action and support
- Undertaking investigations as required e.g. service complaints, disciplinary matters, vehicle accidents etc.
Experience:
You will have the below skills and experience;
- Experience of leading and developing frontline teams
- Excellent people management skills with ability to manage, engage and motivate teams
- Experience of delivering grounds maintenance (amenity horticulture) services - desirable
- Experience of delivering street cleansing services - desirable
- Budget management
- Excellent knowledge of health and safety legislation
- IT skills
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills
Accountabilities:
- Manage and oversee the provision of high-quality customer focused services provided by the Street Scene Teams, ensuring they are responsive to change and embrace best practice in terms of efficiency and high performance under the Councils Corporate Objectives.
- Provide forward thinking operational leadership, support, motivation and development to the supervisors/team leaders and to co-ordinate with other Operations staff to ensure a cohesive and integrated approach to the delivery of services.
- Manage and supervise external contractors involved in the day-to-day delivery of services.
- Regularly review working practices and procedures to optimise the best use of resources.
- Participate in partnership working across departmental, organisational and cross-border boundaries to ensure best practice.
- Drive a strong performance culture of continuous improvement, ensuring a proactive approach to changing customer/service/legislative requirements.
- Undertake team meetings including preparation of agendas, minutes and chairing meetings as required.
- Manage and assist in managing corporate projects as and when directed by the Operations Manager.
- Assist in managing the budgets, including monitoring expenditure for all the respective areas within the reporting lines.
- Monitor levels of sickness absence and take appropriate action including conducting absence review meetings (Stage 1 and 2) and presenting at Sickness Absence Panel meetings and to the Operations Manager, as required.
- Undertake investigations as required e.g. service complaints, disciplinary matters, vehicle accidents (list is not exhaustive) etc.
- Establish and maintain effective communication mechanisms and foster good working relationships within Operations and other departments within the Council including excellent industrial relations with Trade Union representatives.
- Deal with all day-to-day service-related requests and corporate complaints ensuring they are thoroughly investigated, corrective action taken, and lessons learnt.
- Ensure the health and safety of employees at work through the implementation and monitoring of the Council's/Department's health and safety policies/plans and in accordance with all statutory requirements.
- Enable the development of staff, ensuring that staffing levels reflect the demands of the service and flexible/ generic working arrangements.
- Prepare reports and statistical information as required.
- Work with other Managers/Assistant Managers/Supervisors across Street Scene and other service areas in Operations to ensure a seamless approach to service delivery.
- Respond in a positive and timely manner to all service requests/enquiries/complaints ensuring that corporate deadlines are met.
- Ensure that all staff demonstrate a customer focused, professional attitude and represent the Council in an exemplary manner.
- Proactively respond to, resolve or escalate any operational issues in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Assist in carrying out compliance checks on all vehicles and plant deployed in the service to ensure compliance with the Council's Operator's Licence.
- Ensure the timely investigation into complaints, road traffic accidents and health and safety incidents and submit completed reports to the Operations Manager/Insurance department as required.
- Work closely with the Transport Manager & Plant Workshop ensuring vehicles, plant and equipment is serviced, inspected, and maintained in accordance with the road transport legislation and in compliance with the Council's Operator's Licence.
- Manage the Open Spaces Assistant in relation to open spaces furniture, allotments, play areas (list is not exhaustive) etc.
Why choose Braintree District Council?
Braintree District Council is an ambitious and forward-thinking authority with a vision of creating a great place for our residents and businesses.
As a Council our role is as a guardian of the place and its people; where residents live well in healthy and resilient communities; a well-connected district with high-quality homes delivered with the infrastructure and a place which attracts and provides good employment opportunities.
We are becoming one of the fastest growing Districts in the East of England with three growing towns, London just 45 minutes away and the district located directly between the international transport centres of Stansted Airport and Harwich and Felixstowe International Ports. We have a deserved track record for delivering and a strong reputation within the business community and are committed
Braintree District Council is a great place to work. We pride ourselves on our creative and innovative approach which is led by our staff. We are committed to having an engaged workforce who understand our strategy and how they can help deliver it. Some of the benefits of working for Braintree District Council are:
- Flexible working
- Free parking
- Local government pension scheme
- Learning and development for all staff
- Staff recognition schemes
- Extensive health and wellbeing programme including discounted gym membership.
This is a varied and interesting role and a great opportunity to be part of a dynamic and innovative local authority, and we would love to hear from you.
To apply, click here: Street Cleansing and Grounds Maintenance Manager
Closing date for receipt of applications: Midnight on Sunday 2nd February 2025.
Please Note - Essex County Council is advertising this role on behalf of Braintree District Council and if successful you will be employed by Braintree District Council.
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Why Essex?
Essex County Council covers 1,300 square miles from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary. From the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest – Basildon and Harlow – are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career.
We celebrate difference and work to ensure that no one is disadvantaged when accessing services, employment or public life in Essex. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interviewing all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. We’re also committed to interviewing all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.
Free to deliver big
We recruit creative, ambitious, talented people, and free them up to think – and deliver – big.
We’ve made substantial changes in recent years, reorganising how we’re structured and how we work, so we can protect the most vulnerable and enable our economy to grow. Join us and you’ll be trusted to take control, manage change and make a lasting impact. You’ll be able to call upon external partners and suppliers to help you deliver. More importantly, talented, trailblazing colleagues – including many industry-leaders – will be right by your side to share ideas, knowledge and experience.
Find out how Essex County Council is changing, and how you’ll fit in.
Employee Recognition & Engagement
Here are some of the things we have in place to give our employees a sense of belonging, involvement and recognition.
Employee Networks:
- Ethnically Diverse Employee Network (EDEN)
- Carers Forum
- Christian Network
- Disabled Employees Network
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Network
- Parents Network
- Women’s Network
- Men’s Network
- Young People and Apprentice Network.
You Make The Difference’ Awards - giving employees the opportunity to nominate individuals or teams who go above and beyond for our residents.
Employee Surveys – where we listen to the voices of our people and take action on what we hear.
Employee Panels – giving you the opportunity to feed back on a range of policies and initiatives, network with colleagues and influence far-reaching changes.
Learning and Development
We have developed diverse learning opportunities to support our people to grow both personally and professionally. This includes:
- A large suite of online training and tools
- Dedicated learning events such as ‘LearnFest’ – our flagship annual celebration of learning
- Apprenticeships for both new and existing colleagues
- Financial support to achieve professional qualifications
- Support from subject matter experts
- The opportunity to share your own expertise to up-skill colleagues
- Leadership and executive coaching
- Learning on demand
- Career pathways
Rewards and Benefits
- Family Friendly flexible Working
- Generous holiday and special leave allowances (including the option to purchase extra holiday)
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Life Assurance of three times annual salary
- Volunteering leave (up to 4 days per year)
- Employee wellbeing and counselling
- Travel discounts & season ticket loans
- Learning and Development opportunities/coaching & mentoring
- Payment of professional fees for approved professions
- Eye care vouchers
- Lease car scheme (dependent on business needs)
- Up to £8,000 relocation package (subject to terms and conditions)
You’ll also have access to MyReward, a unique platform for Essex County Council employees to gain various discounts and savings.
Your Wellbeing
At Essex County Council we are committed to supporting the wellbeing of our people. We work closely with our employees to provide wellbeing support based on their needs. We strive to enable the right environment, conditions, and behaviours so individual and organisational wellbeing is embedded in everything we do.
Join us and get Inspired to do More.
- Website
- https://workingforessex.com/
- Telephone
- 0845 743 0430
- Location
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County Hall
Market Road
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 1QH
United Kingdom
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