General Manager - Recycling

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General Manager Recycling - South Wales

The incumbent in this role will have full responsibility for the profit and health & safety of the Heidelberg Materials Recycling hubs located within a defined territory area. He/she will manage and lead a designated team of commercial, operational & logistical staff.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead and manage the geographic commercial and operational team
• Achieve targets for incoming material, sales volumes, selling price, costs and RCO
• Achieve the highest possible standards in Health & Safety
• Develop and maintain excellent local knowledge of the market and competitor activity
• Manage the customer portfolio and mix
• Manage operating costs ensuring optimum efficiency by maximising material recycling percentage and minimizing material (waste) sent to landfill.
• Drive product and service quality excellence
• Achieve Heidelberg Materials UK KPI expectations
• Generate and submit required reporting to the business timetable
• Close collaboration with other Business Lines including: maximise use of recycled aggregates within our value-added businesses, including RAP (and associated sourcing), sharing of site operational resources and logistics (where appropriate).

• RCO
• Sales and account management
• Debt collection and query management
• Production
• Health & Safety
• Quality
• Environmental Compliance, including ensuring all necessary permits and planning approvals in place
• Cost control
• Waste management and recycling

The role holder is expected:

• To comply with all aspects of the Heidelberg Materials Compliance Policy.
• To ensure that all the business/operations are performed in accordance with instructions and procedures and in such a way to prevent any fraudulent activities taking place.
• To comply with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and to observe the requirements of the Company Safety Policy and other relevant legislation.
• To proactively manage health & safety of employees to continuously improve the company's health & safety performance.
• To update all areas of knowledge as required to carry out the job with maximum effectiveness and to attend training/development courses as and when required.
• To comply will all aspects of the HR Policies and Procedures of the Company.

• Relevant degree preferable but not essential
• Experience in aggregates, muckaway, utilities or waste sectors preferable.