Agricultural Recycling Manager

at  Thames Water Utilites

Are you looking for a dynamic role that involves managing the safe and efficient recycling of sewage sludge for agriculture?
Join Thames Water’s bio recycling team as a manager responsible for the safe and efficient recycling of sewage sludge to agriculture. Build relationships with customers, landowners, and other communities, liaise with various organizations, and coordinate with the wider recycling team. Monitor sites, oversee contractor health and safety, and ensure the performance of agricultural operations in your defined area is up to standard. Apply now for a challenging and rewarding role with a tangible impact.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING AS A AGRICULTURAL RECYCLING MANAGER

• Manage and develop a geographically dispersed technical team, ensuring the delivery of performance targets and objectives for the team.
• Responsible for safely and efficiently recycling sewage sludge for our customers in agriculture within a given geographical area.
• Developing, liaising with, and building relationships with farmers, land owners, agronomists, agents, and others in rural communities to maintain and build the company’s reputation and credibility, thus promoting the beneficial use of sewage sludge as a fertiliser replacement.
• Liaising with Environmental Health Officers, Environment Agency Officers, and local communities to ensure that the recycling operations have a minimum impact on the environment and the public.
• Coordinate with the broader recycling team to ensure the safe, effective, and efficient management of the recycling operation and contract, thereby improving financial performance.
• Manage and monitor the contract and the contractors in a defined area, promoting a robust, challenging and effective business relationship.
• Responsible for monitoring the contractors Health and Safety performance of agricultural operations in a defined area.
• Source land for recycling biosolids, building and maintaining a land bank to sustain the company’s recycling requirement for now and the future.
• Management of the sales process, which includes fertiliser advice, pricing and availability, land suitability, soil sampling, risk assessment of land to be spread and stockpiled site, site-specific contractor liaison, order entry and permit production via TDS (land application management software), and the timing of operations and the signing off order prior to invoicing.
• Developing and reassessing procedures and work methods to increase working and financial performance.
  Based Hybrid, Deephams, you will be required on-site as part of your role 2-3 times a week.
  36 hours a week, Monday to Friday.
  This role does require a driver’s licence and has access to a work van.

WHAT YOU SHOULD BRING TO THE ROLE

• An agricultural background with a good knowledge of rural practice is essential, preferably with sales experience in a similar field such as Biosolid Management.
• You must confidently talk to farmers, agronomists, and contractors.
• You must be organised, flexible, responsive to change, and able to manage your own time.
• Ideally, you will be aware of current agricultural initiatives and legislation, such as the Nitrates Directive and Cross-Compliance.
• It would be advantageous if you were FACTS or BASIS-trained.