Head Of Reinstatement, Aggregates And Waste

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and driven Head of Reinstatement, Aggregates and Waste to join our senior operations team.

Operating within our utilities and civil engineering divisions, this senior leadership role holds overall commercial, operational, and regulatory accountability for reinstatement programmes, material supply chains, aggregate management, and waste recycling operations across our regional depots. You will ensure end to end delivery meets strict client specifications, NRSWA standards, environmental targets, and commercial margins.

Position Title
:
Head of Reinstatement, Aggregates and Waste

JDT Salary Band: Level 3

Branch of organisation
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Business Support Group

Location: Westerham

Standard Hours (45 hours) Mon-Fri

Job Purpose

Accountable to the Director of Operations and Managing Director for the strategic execution and complete operational delivery of JDT's material lifecycle and street works networks. This comprehensive corporate remit combines end-to-end management of primary/secondary aggregate procurement, optimal handling and recycling of excavation mass via designated Waste Transfer Stations (WTS), and leading the Reinstatement Department to cross-contractual excellence (SGN & other client frameworks).

A vital commercial and regulatory objective of this post is ensuring that all strategic plant operations, transport logistics, and asset utilisation loops seamlessly leverage carbon-reduction mechanisms and sustainability goals outlined by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) while preserving low direct costs.

Key Responsibilities

1. Head of the Reinstatement, Aggregates, and Waste Networks Department, with definitive authority over the hiring, discipline, mentoring, structure, and operational deployment of all inner business staff and external supply chains.

2. Direction and commercial control of reinstatement budgets, ensuring that materials, logistics, direct field labour, and subcontracted work matrices achieve maximum cost-efficiency and return on capital assets.

3. Strategic optimisation of JDT Waste Transfer Stations (WTS), ensuring robust recycling loops to minimise landfill disposal charges and guarantee high-yield secondary aggregate processing loops.

4. Alignment of all company earthworks and back filling activities with national targets established by DESNZ, proactively implementing green procurement strategies such as expanding the utilisation of Cold Lay Asphalt variations.

5. Cross-departmental synchronisation with Heads of Operations Groups to build circular scheduling matrixes; ensuring excavation sizes are proactively restricted, tarmac cutting protocols are minimised, and reactive logistics are systematically ironed out.

6. Fostering elite relationship capital with corporate clients, Local Authorities, Highways Agencies, Transport Management and external regulatory auditors to preserve flawless permit delivery and project completion life cycles.

7. Ownership of performance monitoring frameworks, driving strict internal adherence to contractual Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) including Public and Private D+2 overrun limits.

8. Total ownership of the company reinstatement data layer, standardising metrics via active systems such as Control Hub, App Can, and JDT Vision to deliver clear weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance visibility directly to the Board of Directors (BOD).

9. Preservation of flawless safety metrics, maintaining an internal audit regime across projects using mobile inspection systems (iAuditor) to target zero high-voltage underground cable strikes and eliminate client safety interventions.

10. At all times act in the best interests of the company.

11. Promote a diverse and inclusive working…