Site Manager

We're looking for an experienced Site Manager to oversee the safe, compliant and cost-effective management of a portfolio of closed landfill sites across the Southern region. This is a home-based role with daily travel to operational sites, working closely with internal teams, contractors and regulatory bodies to ensure environmental compliance, optimise landfill gas and leachate systems, and support operational sites with health, safety and compliance. Alongside regular site visits, you'll spend time working from home completing reports, managing budgets and planning future improvement projects that protect the environment while maximising operational performance.

Your core responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of closed landfill sites, ensuring ongoing compliance with environmental permits, planning conditions and Health & Safety legislation.
• Carry out regular site inspections and oversee contractors, ensuring aftercare activities are completed safely, efficiently and to the required standards.
• Manage landfill gas collection and leachate control systems, identifying opportunities to improve environmental performance and operational efficiency.
• Take ownership of aftercare budgets, monitoring expenditure, controlling costs and supporting capital investment projects.
• Develop and implement short, medium and long-term site management plans to maintain compliance and improve site performance.
• Work collaboratively with operational, environmental, engineering, compliance, finance and health & safety teams to deliver business objectives across the region.
• Build positive relationships with regulators, local authorities, landlords, contractors and other key stakeholders, representing the business professionally at all times.
• Provide health, safety and compliance support to operational sites across the Southern region, responding to incidents and regulatory issues as required.

Our essential requirements

• Proven experience managing landfill or waste management operations, including a strong understanding of environmental compliance and site aftercare.
• Demonstrable experience managing landfill gas and/or leachate systems, with the ability to interpret technical data and identify improvement opportunities.
• Strong financial management skills, including budget ownership, cost control and project management experience.
• A proactive, organised and safety-first approach, with the ability to work independently across multiple sites and priorities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience working alongside regulators, contractors and operational teams.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel daily across the Southern region, with regular overnight stays and occasional UK-wide travel.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,500+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull. And it’s why we’re the UK’s No. 1 choice for business waste management.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.