Job Description
Join us as an Environmental Services Manager!
Thirteen Group is on the lookout for an Environmental Services Manager
You’ll manage our specialised contractors for arboriculture, pest control, and environmental services, while leading the successful delivery of our estates compliance functions.
This is a roam role where you will need to work closely with various internal colleagues/teams to meet service needs from our fantastic office at Hudson Quay in Middlesbrough.
You’ll have autonomy to plan your time and manage your workload while ensuring you stay visible and connected to teams. We’ll need you to be flexible around business and service needs, so you may need to come into the office or visit sites more frequently when required.
Thirteen Benefits:
- Salary – £49,665 per annum
- Annual leave – starting at 28 days and rising to 31 days after three years, a day off for your birthday, plus bank holidays.
- Pension – up to 17% contributions (flexible contribution rates of up to 7% colleague and up to 10% employer).
- Simply Health – save money on common health expenses and get access to health and wellbeing support services.
- T’dar – our Discount and Reward platform giving you huge savings on everyday brands.
- Opportunities to buy and sell annual leave
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of 8 direct reports responsible for pest control, invasive species management and arboriculture services, including Urban Rangers, an Arb Surveyor, Arb Operatives and a Pest Control Co-ordinator. You’ll ensure thorough estate inspections and quality control measures are in place.
- Manage pest control contractors and proactively work with internal teams on preventative and prompt actions.
- Manage environmental health risks including pests, invasive species, sustainable drainage management, fly-tipping enforcement, and safety standards.
- Provide expert technical guidance on pest control, arborist and environmental issues, ensuring compliance with legal and safety standards.
- Build strong, influential partnerships with local authorities and environmental health teams, collaborating on enforcement, statutory investigations, and community environmental matters.
- Shape, instigate and support projects that enhance safety standards, customer experience, and the overall appearance of our neighbourhoods.
About You:
- You’ll bring solid knowledge of pest control and arboriculture. Your operational experience may come from environmental health, estate compliance, arboriculture, housing, or facilities management.
- A fantastic people manager, with the ability to lead high performing teams, set clear direction, and shape culture to deliver consistent, quality outcomes.
- Proven experience of managing contractors, service delivery schedules and operational activity within a compliance or environmental services setting.
- An effective understanding of statutory compliance and health and safety of environmental health and arborist safety standards.
- As a champion of continuous improvement and innovation, you’ll use data-driven insights and digital tools to innovate and enhance services, provide business intelligence to support the wider business in providing excellent services.
- Exceptional communication and partnership working skills and someone who brings about positive change in collaboration with customers, colleagues and external partners.
Why Thirteen
At Thirteen, we work together to provide quality homes, build stronger communities, and support people to live well. As the largest housing association in the North East and among the top 25 nationally, we manage over 36,000 homes, with over 1,600 colleagues providing services for around 100,000 customers.
Our vision is to be the most trusted housing association, with happy customers. In fact, we put customers at the heart of everything we do.
- Join a team that’s local at heart but welcomes talent from everywhere.
- Be part of an organisation that values diversity and inclusivity.
- Be a part of a company that offers tailored support services, going beyond just housing solutions.
Interested?
For more details, please refer to the attached documents.
If you’d like to talk more about the role, please contact Michael Hall, Senior Estates Manager on 07795 602436 for an informal discussion.
NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES, please.
Are You Ready for a Rewarding Challenge?
Join us at Thirteen Group and be a part of our vision to improve lives every day. APPLY NOW and start your journey towards making a meaningful impact in our community!
As part of our hiring process, if you’re successful we’ll need to verify your right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not a Skilled Worker Sponsoring Employer at this time.
