Environmental Crime and Pest Control Team Leader

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Public Protection

Environmental Crime and Pest Control Team Leader

Ref: 001503

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £39,152 - £42,839 per annum (Grade 7)

Hours: 36.66 per week

Location: Sir Robert Peacock House, Vulcan Street, Oldham, OL1 4LA

Closing Date: Sunday 7 June 2026

Interview Date: TBC.

Role Overview:

Oldham Council is seeking a motivated Environmental Crime and Pest Control Team Leader to lead the delivery of enforcement and pest control services, supporting statutory duties while contributing to the Council’s wider place-based agenda.

Reporting to the Environmental health Manager you will manage a team of Enforcement and Pest Control Officers, ensuring clear performance management processes are in place to monitor productivity, capability and service standards. You will allocate resources effectively, drive performance, and support staff development to achieve consistently high-quality outcomes.

The role includes overseeing environmental crime enforcement, ensuring compliance with legislation and promoting proactive, intelligence-led activity to address issues such as fly-tipping, waste offences and environmental crime. You will also raise the profile of the service, working in partnership with district teams and local stakeholders to support community-focused initiatives.

You will be responsible for managing the pest control service for domestic and commercial customers, ensuring all treatments, follow-ups and callouts are delivered efficiently and meet contractual targets. This includes undertaking escalation visits, conducting quality audits, and maintaining high service standards.

A key aspect of the role is developing the commercial pest control offer to increase income and managing associated budgets. You will also oversee the external Dog Warden contract, ensuring the provider meets all contractual and performance requirements.

This is a varied leadership role requiring strong operational management, commercial awareness and the ability to deliver effective, customer-focused services that improve environmental quality across Oldham.

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Key Responsibilities:

• To manage and oversee the day-to-day work of the Enforcement and Pest Control teams and in particular the workload, responding to service requests and contractual obligations.
• To manage and report on budgetary performance ensuring income targets are achieved and the overall budgets for the teams are maintained.
• Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of service improvements and change strategies following guidance and instruction from the Head of Service and Environmental Health Manager in accordance with current legislation and national policy guidance.
• Regularly monitor and measure workloads and allocate these appropriately across the Enforcement and Pest Control teams
• Investigate and resolve customer complaints and complete appropriate documentation.

Key Requirements:

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• An appropriate degree, professional qualification, or significant equivalent experience in a relevant enforcement discipline.
• Experience of investigation of offences and the enforcement of relevant legislation including experience of court procedures.
• Experience of performance management of staff and the successful allocation of workloads to aid performance.

About Us:

We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We’ve identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:

A Great Place to Live, Healthier, Happier Lives, and Green and Growing.

We’re looking for candidates who will support us to achieve our ambitions and we encourage you to download our Corporate Plan: Ready for the Future and our Oldham Plan for further information.

Our Values and Behaviours:

By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are ‘Proud, Ambitious, and Together’, and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.

We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:

• Work with a resident focus
• Support local leaders
• Committed to the borough
• Delivery high performance
• Take ownership and drive change

You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page

Our Benefits Package:

At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:

• 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-years’ service
• The option to purchase additional annual leave.
• An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions.
• Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active.
• Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and more.
• Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work.
• Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support.
• Staff recognition and celebration events.
• Peer support groups

Inclusive Recruitment:

We work closely with employees to help them work at their best, including making adjustments such as flexible working, describing available working patterns, providing equipment or making changes to the workplace.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

If you have lived or worked abroad for 3 months or more in the last 5 years or 12 months or more (whether continuously or in total) in the last 10 years whilst aged 18 or over, please refer to the link below for details for how to obtain your Certificates of Good Character. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.

If you’re an applicant with disabilities and have previously been in or currently in care, a carer, someone who has served in the Armed Forces, or you’ve participated in the GM Elevate Programme, and you meet the essential criteria of the role, you are guaranteed to reach the first stage of assessment under our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme.

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Important Information:

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for a current employee at risk of redundancy, it can be pulled back at any point, up to the post being formally offered to a candidate who is not at risk of redundancy.

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