Community Reuse and Recycling Coordinator
Looking for a role where leadership meets purpose? Join us in making a difference in the community while driving both sales and sustainability. This ground-level opportunity is perfect for someone with strong community engagement skills who is eager to take ownership, contribute to shaping the role, and collaborate with the team as we work towards establishing a recent facility in the near future.
What You’ll Do
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a passionate team
- Deliver great customer experiences every day
- Boost sales and shop performance with smart strategies
- Maximise recycling and reuse opportunities
- Keep our reuse shop safe, organised, and thriving
If you're ready to lead by example, bring your operational, sales, and people skills to a role that makes a real difference to your community and the environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee all sales activities and sales associated jobs including supporting staff in greeting customers, answering questions, processing payments, and maintaining a professional attitude reflecting Councils commitment to customers.
- Lead, engage, mentor, and develop the team, ensuring effective personnel management in order to deliver operational works and achieve the best organisational and community outcomes.
- Plan and coordinate the Reuse team’s work activities including plant, materials, and contractors.
- Operate internal reporting systems and generate reports to management on request.
- Oversee onsite compliance against reporting requirements, ensuring key performance indicators are achieved.
- Effectively manage the collection, presentation and sale of re-saleable materials ensuring maximum recyclable diversion.
- Promote and plan opportunities to increase diversion and sales revenue.
- Communicate with other team members to maximise diversion and sales.
- Develop a yearly communications plan to support reuse shop activities.
- Maintain the reuse shop to a high level of housekeeping and establish a pricing mechanism that encourages the uptake of goods
- Develop procedures relevant to the role to provide guidance around the management of the reuse shop facility.
What’s in it for you?
- A chance to lead with impact
- Variety across sales, operations, and community engagement
- Be part of a team committed to sustainability and service
Essential Requirements Of The Position
- Class C Driver’s Licence.
- General Construction Induction Training Card.
- National Certificates of Competency - Forklift (LF) (Desirable).
- Demonstrated experience, skills, and knowledge relevant to the role, including but not limited to working in a retail environment; cash handling; and resource recovery and/or genuine interest in protecting the environment.
- Experience leading and working effectively in a team and independently.
In accordance with Work Health and Safety legislation, the successful applicant is required to be vaccinated for Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B and Tetanus and will be asked to provide evidence of this.
Applications close Friday, 17 October 2025 at 11.59pm AEDST with interviews to be held in the week commencing Monday, 20 October 2025.
If you are interested in this role and would like more information, please contact Andrea Baldwin, Resource Recovery Facilities Manager on.
Council is an inclusive employer. We strive to reflect the community in which we work, as a result we welcome and encourage applications from skilled people from all walks of life. This includes women, men, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with a disability, veterans, sexually and gender diverse people, people with lived experience and people of all ages.
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📌 Community Reuse and Recycling Coordinator
🏢 City of Wagga Wagga
📍 Wagga Wagga