Operations Manager - Neighbourhoods

Neighbourhood Services are seeking a highly motivated and experienced officer to operationally plan and manage a multi-disciplinary team with their responsibilities being associated with a wide range of grounds maintenance operations both statutory and non-statutory in nature.

Neighbourhood Services delivers its services across the 329km2 of the borough of Barnsley therefore it is essential for the role that the applicant has the ability to travel about our area as required in connection with the role.

You will require a wide range of skills and abilities ranging from policy lead effective and strong management skills to familiarity with the street cleansing environment through to horticultural and weed control knowledge, methodologies and legislative requirements.

You will need a strong focus upon health and safety matters and of the wellbeing of your team members as well as being confident to assertively challenge team matters and current working practice to ensure a culture of safety, wellbeing, excellence and continuous development and improvement is embedded.

As an Operations Manager for Neighbourhood Services you will be expected to provide resilience on a contingency basis across the full span of our service offer and work closely with colleagues and with both internal and external partners to best ensure the needs of our customers and communities are met.

If you feel you have the necessary skills and abilities to help us to successfully manage and develop services, we would very much welcome your application.