Project Manager - Environment Services Transformation
Posted Today by Connect2Halton
£500 Per day
Outside
Onsite
Widnes, Cheshire
Summary: The Project Manager for Environment Services Transformation at Halton Borough Council will lead a transformative program aimed at enhancing the efficiency of environmental services, including waste management and green spaces. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to develop and implement project plans, ensuring compliance with data handling requirements, and effectively managing project risks. The position is integral to the Council's broader change and transformation initiatives, contributing to sustainable service delivery for residents. The role requires a minimum of two days per week on-site in Halton.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain project documentation, plans, and registers for monitoring and reporting progress.
- Ensure project activities align with overall direction and achieve milestones and outcomes.
- Verify and analyze sensitive and confidential data while maintaining compliance with data handling requirements.
- Identify and manage project risks, supporting operational services in developing mitigating measures.
- Implement effective benefit tracking and liaise with relevant stakeholders.
- Contribute to corporate and project-specific communications, capturing key milestones and changes.
- Support budget re-profiling at project conclusion to align residual service budgets with post-project needs.
Key Skills:
- Experience in project management, preferably in environmental services including waste management or greenspaces.
- Formal relationship and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in risk management approaches.
- Ability to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal presentation skills.
- Resilience and adaptability to change.
Salary (Rate): £500/day
City: Widnes
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
Job Title: Project Manager - Environment Services Transformation
Employer: Halton Borough Council
Initial Placement Length: To 31st March 2026
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: Based in Halton (minimum of 2 days per week)
We are at the outset of an exciting programme of change and development for our Environment Services in Halton; we have identified a number of key workstreams that the Department wants to deliver which will help to improve the efficiency of our services and also deliver better outcomes for our residents. This includes rolling out some brand new arrangements for waste collection & recycling across Halton, as well as changes to how we deliver a range of frontline services. You'll be joining a new team which will support and work collaboratively with colleagues across the Environment and Regeneration directorate, while being a core part of our corporate change and transformation programme.
We're seeking a Project Officer to support the delivery of multiple Environment services projects, including Waste Management and Green spaces, which form part of a wider change and transformation programme aimed at ensuring that the Council is financially responsible and sustainable.
You will work with the Programme Manager and an environment services subject matter expert to support the development of the various projects so that they form a coherent programme of work. You will also play an important role in supporting the Environment & Regeneration Directorate to deliver change across multiple service areas which will contribute to a wider programme of work across the Council.
Initial analysis has taken place; a series of recommendation are currently being drawn up and will shortly need to be developed into a plan.
Key Duties
- Be responsible for developing and maintaining project documentation, plans and registers to enable monitoring and reporting of progress.
- Ensure that project activity supports the overall project direction and that milestones and outcomes are clearly achieved.
- Verify and analyse sensitive and confidential data (including staffing, financial, performance and operational data), having regard to compliance with organisational and statutory data handling requirements and maintaining confidentiality at all times.
- Identify and manage project risks. Support operational services to develop mitigating measures, document and clearly communicate decisions and actions, reporting or escalating where appropriate.
- Implement effective benefit tracking to ensure that benefits are captured liaising with relevant stakeholders (HR, Finance, Operational Services etc) as appropriate.
- Contribute to both corporate and project specific communications, ensuring that key milestones and changes are captured with the Communications Plan and target groups (staff, management, Members, public, partners etc) are communicated with appropriately.
- Support the re-profiling of budgets at project conclusion, ensuring that saving are raised and that residual service budgets are aligned to post-project business needs.
About You
An experienced project manager, ideally with experience and expertise in an environment services field including waste management or greenspaces.
Proven formal relationship and stakeholder management skills
Proven experience in risk management approaches
Evidence of working collaboratively on projects in multi-disciplinary teams
Good negotiation and problem-solving skills
Strong written and verbal presentation skills
Resilience and an ability to adapt to change
Connect2Halton is a trading style of Halton & Kent Commercial Services LLP- A joint venture between Halton Borough Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Halton is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.