Porirua City Council has highly commendable solid waste management and zero waste strategies and programmes. The Council carries out a series of activities associated with the management of solid waste to ensure that the waste created by the City is disposed of in a way that minimises any effect to the environment and the community.
The opportunity exists to take lead of a small and highly effective team.The focus of this role is the integrated management of the reduction, reuse, recycling, recovery and residual disposal of solid waste services and assets. You will be working at the core of community waste management and contributing to improved environmental impacts.
This is a broad role spanning policy and strategy development and implementation, and asset, operational, contracts and financial planning and management.
With a strong customer service orientation you will ideally possess experience in policy development, asset and waste management, with an engineering or related facilities or technical services background.Your wider skills and experience will include:
Operational management
Financial management
Excellent verbal & written communication
Computer literacy
Strategy planning and reporting
Porirua City Council has an enthusiastic commitment to driving not only their stated Zero Waste goal but the waste minimisation and resource recovery goals of the wider Wellington region and indeed New Zealand. Step forward and make your mark!
To apply for this opportunity please submit your resume with a covering letter to Campbell Hepburn via info@thejohnsongroup.co.nz quoting ref 1729.
