Executive Manager - Waste Services

• Shape the operational direction of Waste Management Services
• Unique leadership opportunity within NSW’s largest regional Council
• Permanent opportunity, a role YOU design to ensure you’re there for the moments that matter most

As a member of our team, you won't just work for the city; you’ll co-create it.

Here, your ideas and efforts directly shape the places where you and your community live, work, and play.

Through your work, you’ll have a behind the scenes pass to Newcastle's evolution as you shape our future as a liveable, inclusive city.

The Executive Manager Waste Services provides clear leadership in the management of the city's waste, promoting safe, compliant, efficient and innovative ways of working to deliver a value for money range of services to CN, the community and commercial customers.

This position reports to the Executive Director City Infrastructure and forms part of the City Infrastructure leadership team that will drive culture and values with a strong commitment to, and advocacy for safety & wellbeing, compliance, diversity and inclusion

In this role you will be responsible for delivering City of Newcastle's “Our Sustainable Waste Strategy” with a focus on the pillars of Planet, People and Prosperity and associated metrics, deliverables and outcomes. The role will require the ability to build effective working relationships internally and externally with key stakeholders to best enable delivery of the operational elements of the waste strategy. In this role you will collaborate and report across the organisation to shape a business culture, achieve shared goals and deliver exceptional customer service. You will also embrace and lead change in a dynamic, complex, and high growth environment.

The key focus for this position will be across the following operating portfolios:

• Customer Call Centre & Weighbridge
• Collections
• Landfill and Site Enablement
• Resource Recovery Centre
• Service Delivery and Contractor Management
• Environmental Management and Regulatory Interface

Find out more about your new career by viewing the position description here.

Life at City of Newcastle (CN)

You’ll get to experience your work up close alongside the brilliant minds of your colleagues who care for one another and the region.

You’ll chip away at ambitious plans with a talented, passionate crew alongside you, shaping the very fabric of our community. Showing up for neighbours not shareholders.

Every single day offers the chance to think big and act local. Planning and prioritising to achieve the most important outcomes with the community.

You’ll add value in the moments that matter. From librarians to lifeguards, in a range of iconic places, we achieve a better Newcastle together.

Whether we’re planning to host major events, providing essential services or supporting creative artists, it’s what we do when the cameras aren't rolling that matters most.

And we’ll be there for you in important times in your life. We embrace flexible work arrangements to find a balance that allows us to enjoy the city we shape.

Our focus on inclusion and respecting culture, will help you feel a deeper connection with others. You'll connect with internal communities that will help you to feel a sense of belonging and reflect the diversity of the growing region.

You’ll do meaningful work and do it sustainably as you take ideas from plan to play, in your own backyard.

With hundreds of different roles, each person adds their uniqueness to our culture and plays their part as we head towards our 2040 vision.

With natural assets and a focus on the environment, co-create a sustainable region with us.

Why join CN?

At CN, we value our employees, and their wellbeing takes priority. We encourage employees to make time for what's important and provide the benefits to enable a work life balance that allow us to enjoy the city we shape. To read more, visit here!

We champion inclusion so that everyone is valued, and we encourage innovation and creativity. We are committed to creating a safe and inclusive workplace where different styles, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, encouraged, and respected.

People with diverse lived experiences (including but not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, people with diverse gender identities and sexualities, people from different cultural, racial, ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability, carers, and veterans) are encouraged to apply.

Don’t just work for the city, co-create it. Join and expand your career at the City of Newcastle.

Application Closing Date: Monday 3 August 2026

Remuneration: Total Remuneration Package $260K - $280K per annum (inclusive of 12% superannuation)

Contact: David Witherdin - Director City Infrastructure: +61431581720

If you need any adjustments to be made to the recruitment process or if you would like to discuss any accessibility requirements, please contact [email protected] for a confidential discussion.

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

CN do not accept unsolicited resumes, and we respectfully ask that recruitment agencies do not contact us at this stage.

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