Location
Central London with daily travel across the Southern region, including regular overnight stays and occasional UK-wide travel.

Hours
Full Time - standard working hours with flexibility required to meet operational needs.

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Help us make a difference as a Site Manager overseeing the safe, compliant, and cost-effective management of a portfolio of closed landfill sites across the Southern region. This home-based role involves 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 will 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 include managing a portfolio of closed landfill sites to ensure ongoing compliance with environmental permits, planning conditions, and Health & Safety legislation; carrying out regular site inspections and overseeing contractors to ensure aftercare activities are completed safely, efficiently, and to required standards; managing landfill gas collection and leachate control systems, identifying opportunities to improve environmental performance and operational efficiency; taking ownership of aftercare budgets, monitoring expenditure, controlling costs, and supporting capital investment projects; developing and implementing short, medium, and long-term site management plans to maintain compliance and improve site performance; working collaboratively with operational, environmental, engineering, compliance, finance, and health & safety teams to deliver business objectives across the region; building positive relationships with regulators, local authorities, landlords, contractors, and other key stakeholders, representing the business professionally at all times; and providing health, safety, and compliance support to operational sites across the Southern region, responding to incidents and regulatory issues as required.

Join Biffa and benefit from ongoing career development, training and coaching, a car or allowance, competitive salary, generous pension scheme, retail and leisure discounts, holiday and travel discounts, and life cover. Be part of a company dedicated to changing the way people think about waste and committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Experience
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.

About you
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, including regular overnight stays and occasional UK-wide travel.

Qualifications
No specific qualifications stated; however, relevant experience and a commitment to health, safety, and environmental compliance are essential.