What you’ll be doing

as an 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 contractor's 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 before invoicing.
• Developing and reassessing procedures and work methods to increase working and financial performance.

This is a field-based role, covering the Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire area.

36 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

This role does require a driver's licence as you will be provided with a work van.

What you should bring to the role

What’s in it for you?

Who are we?

At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.

Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.

But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

Working at Thames Wate r

At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that each individual brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.