Street Scene and Open Spaces Manager

Join Braintree District Council at a pivotal moment as we reshape our services to be future-ready. We are in an exciting phase of transformation and are looking for a proactive Street Scene and Open Spaces Manager to lead innovation and uphold service excellence within our operations team.

Location: Braintree, Essex CM7 9HB

Salary: £39,868 - £44,086 per annum

Job Type: Full - Time, Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours Per Week

Close Date: 17th November 2024

About Us:

Braintree is an ambitious and dynamic Council and is 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.

Braintree District Council is a great place to work. We pride ourselves on our creative, innovative and forward thinking 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.

Street Scene and Open Spaces Manager The Role:

This role oversees a diverse range of services, including street cleansing, grounds maintenance, amenity horticulture, and the management of open spaces. These teams deliver essential services to both the community and visitors, from maintaining play areas and nature reserves to ensuring clean streets and car parks.

You will manage the teams' daily operations, focusing on performance management, recruitment, learning and development, team building, absence management, and discipline.

Street Scene and Open Spaces Manager Key Responsibilities:

- 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

Street Scene and Open Spaces Manager You:

- Knowledge and experience of working at a management level within public services, with knowledge of frontline service delivery aimed at delivering excellent customer service

- Excellent people management skills with ability to manage, engage and motivate teams

- Experience of delivering grounds maintenance (amenity horticulture) services

- Experience of delivering street cleansing services

- Budget management

- Excellent knowledge of health and safety legislation

- IT skills

- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills

Street Scene and Open Spaces Manager Benefits:

In return we will offer our Street Scene and open Spaces Manager excellent benefits including:

- Competitive pay and benefits

- Local government pension scheme

- Learning and development for all staff

- Free parking

- Staff discounts at local businesses

- Staff recognition schemes

- Extensive health and wellbeing programme including discounted gym membership

- Flexible working

If you re ready to make a meaningful impact in our community and lead a team dedicated to excellence, we d love to hear from you. Apply today for the Street Scene and Open Spaces Manager role and join us in shaping a vibrant, clean, and welcoming district for everyone.

Applications close on the 17th November 2024.