Environmental worker with a strong focus on operations, collaboration and solutions that ensure efficient waste collection in Copenhagen for the Waste and Recycling Infrastructure unit

Would you like to help ensure an efficient waste collection for Copenhagen's residents and businesses? Do you have knowledge of, or interest in, the connection between construction projects, renovation, traffic and daily operations?

We are currently seeking an employee for the Waste and Recycling Infrastructure Unit.

You will play a central role in the operation of waste collection in the City of Copenhagen to ensure that the municipality's roads, waste solutions and traffic conditions function in practice. You will work closely with daily life in the city and be in direct dialogue with, among others, operations managers, waste companies, contractors, utility owners, citizens and businesses. Here you will act as the entry point to the municipality and help find good solutions when access routes to daily waste collection are blocked or inaccessible.

A significant part of your responsibility is to create an overview, ensure timely information and coordinate solutions so that challenges on access roads are handled before they create difficulties for daily operations and citizens' everyday life.

Your tasks will include, among other things

• Coordination with external actors and ARC before, during and after construction works in the city.
• Handling of acute operational problems that arise at the work sites.
• Coordination of, among other things, pharmacy arrangements, needle collection and establishment of fix rooms.
• Site visits and collaboration with dispatchers from, among others, ARC

Your profile

You may have a technical or social science educational background – or something completely different. Practical experience in the waste sector, and/or traffic conditions is a plus. In addition, it is an advantage if you have experience with citizen contact or customer service.

You are motivated to help residents and businesses move on to the right solution, and you focus on creating a professional, welcoming and trustworthy dialogue. Since the waste sector is continuously evolving, you will need to familiarize yourself with new initiatives and projects that can change your ways of working – therefore it is important that you are adaptable and curious about changes.

In addition, we emphasize that you

• can create an overview of the task across many actors and disciplines
• thrive with coordination and have a view of the whole and a desire to create solutions that work in practice
• can work in a structured way and follow up on your tasks
• have strong collaboration and communication skills
• can handle both planned and urgent tasks
• can work independently while involving relevant professionals when required
• have an understanding of operations, safety, the working environment and citizens' experience.

We offer

• a versatile role with extensive contact surface
• a central role in daily operations
• opportunity to influence and develop solutions and workflows in Copenhagen
• close collaboration with internal and external actors
• a varied daily life with both planned and urgent tasks
• opportunity for professional and organizational development

About the unit

In the Waste and Recycling Infrastructure unit we are about 30 employees distributed across three teams. We continually work on operations and development tasks and cooperate closely with the waste company ARC, and you will become part of an environment where professionalism and complexity go hand in hand.

About the department

You will be employed by the Climate, Environment and Technical Administration of the City of Copenhagen. You will become part of the Climate and Urban Development department, which with a holistic view, curiosity and high professionalism solves tasks within waste and resources, climate initiatives, urban planning, public housing, vulnerable city and analyses.

Climate and Urban Development has approximately 400 employees distributed across 15 professional units and a secretariat, all of whom are passionate about making Copenhagen an even better and more sustainable city to live, move and build in.

Conditions of employment

Salary and employment terms in accordance with qualifications and the applicable collective agreement.

The position is a permanent appointment with commencement on 1 December 2026.

As an employee of the City of Copenhagen you have working conditions that enable you to achieve a balance between work and private life, as you will have an average working week of 37 hours, including lunch break and flex time.

There is the possibility of up to two days of remote work per week depending on the tasks – however with expectation of full attendance during the initial period. Our office is centrally located at Njalsgade 13 on Islands Brygge.

Further information

If you would like to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact Unit Manager Benjamin Nauta Ibsen at 28 82 28 39, or Team Leader Michael Niebling Llobet at 31 41 32 77.

Apply via the link no later than Sunday 18 October 2026

We expect to hold interviews in weeks 43 and 44.

About the Climate, Environment and Technical Administration

The Climate, Environment and Technical Administration is responsible for regulatory tasks and serves citizens and businesses, among other things within the environmental field, local planning, urban renewal, building case handling and the transportation sector. In addition, it is the Climate, Environment and Technical Administration that is responsible for cleaning, maintenance and development of the city’s roads and parks as well as parking control. We employ about 2,700 employees and administer a gross budget of just under DKK 4.8 billion.