Principal Waste Contracts Officer

Job Title: Principal Waste Contract Officer Hours: 37 Salary: HC09 £ 40,778 - £45,092 per annum Contract: Permanent Location: Hereford Closing date: 31/08/2026

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Waste Management Team at Herefordshire Council.

Working within a supportive and ambitious team, you will play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of the council's waste collection and disposal services and helping to achieve our environmental objectives.

Herefordshire Council is looking for an experienced waste contract monitoring officer to join its friendly Waste Management Team. We have an Integrated Waste Strategy with far reaching ambitions and new targets to cut carbon, increase waste minimisation, reuse, recycling and composting activities.

Your role will be responsible for analysing performance and using a performance management framework to demonstrate how the services are achieving contractual outcomes. We’re looking for someone who can develop effective partnerships with our contractors through productive client/commissioner and provider relationships to deliver continuous improvement, drive efficiencies and demonstrate value for money.

The ability to travel independently around the county is essential. The working day can involve some early starts and some late finishes. Weekend working is also expected on some occasions.

You’ll need to have:

• Great analytical skills
• Be proficient in the use of excel
• Have experience of monitoring contracts and budgets, specifically within the waste sector would be preferable.
• The expertise to identify improvements.
• Experience of working with multiple stakeholders to implement change.

The post is based at Plough Lane in Hereford with the team working from here for 2 days per week and with working from home also current practice.

A competitive salary, holiday entitlement, and access to our contributory pension and staff benefits scheme, which includes:

• Salary range of £ 40,777- £ 45,091.
• Enrolment in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Career progression: clear pathways to progress
• Annual Leave: 31 days’ annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum during the request period
• Flexible working: including the potential for job-sharing, part-time hours and agile working.
• Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 access to support and counselling
• Payment of professional membership fees (based role requirements)
• Pick your perks – our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits. This includes savings, cash back and discounts.

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At Herefordshire Council, every role matters and every person makes a real difference for our communities. We’re a team where people feel valued, supported and empowered to grow together.

Herefordshire is big hearted, welcoming and friendly. We have strong and independent communities and idyllic countryside, situated in the South West Midlands and bordering Wales. The county sits between Worcestershire and the Malvern Hills to the east, and Bannau Brycheiniog (the Brecon Beacons) in Wales to the west.

Historically Herefordshire has been the gateway to the Marches. We embrace partnership working. We are a member of the Marches Forward Partnership, which is a cross border collaboration between Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Powys and Shropshire who are collectively working to secure funding to invest in the region.

The council priorities over the next four years are set out in the Council Plan, with four main areas;

People
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We will enable residents to realise their potential, to be healthy and to be part of great communities who support each other. We want all children to have the best start in life.

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We will protect and enhance our environment and ensure that Herefordshire is a great place to live. We will…