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

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

So 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 day-to-day life in the city and be in direct dialogue with, among others, operations managers, waste management companies, contractors, utility owners, citizens and business operators. Here you function as the entry point to the municipality and help find good solutions when access routes to daily waste collection are blocked or impassable.

An important part of your responsibility is to create overview, ensure timely information and coordinate solutions, so challenges on access routes are addressed before they create issues for daily operations and citizens' everyday lives.

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 work sites.
• Coordination of, among other things, pharmacy arrangements, syringe collection and establishment of fix rooms.
• Inspections 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 with the waste sector, and/or traffic conditions is a plus. Additionally, it is an advantage if you have experience with citizen contact or customer service.

You are motivated by helping citizens and businesses progress to the right solution, and you focus on creating a professional, friendly and trustworthy dialogue. As the waste field is in continuous development, 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 value that you

• can create an overview of the task across many actors and disciplines
• enjoy coordination and have a view of the whole and a desire to create solutions that work in practice
• can work in a structured manner and follow up on your tasks
• have strong collaboration and communication skills
• can handle both planned and urgent tasks
• can work independently and at the same time involve relevant professionals when required
• have an understanding of operations, safety, health and safety culture and citizens' experience.

We offer

• a versatile function with a large amount of contact
• 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 everyday 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 approximately 30 employees spread across three teams. We continuously work with operations and development tasks and collaborate 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 in the Climate, Environment and Technical Administration of Copenhagen Municipality. 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, social housing, vulnerable city and analyses.

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

Terms of employment

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

The position is a permanent employment with a start date of 1 December 2026.

As an employee of the City of Copenhagen you have working conditions that enable you to balance work and private life, with an average 37-hour work week, including lunch break and flex time.

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

Additional 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.

Application deadline: 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 performs authority tasks and serves citizens and businesses, among others within the environmental area, local planning, urban renewal, building case handling and the transport 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 conducting parking control. We employ about 2,700 staff and administer a gross budget of just under 4.8 billion DKK.

Application deadline: 18 October 2026

Department: Njalsgade 13 2300 København S

Location: Climate, Environment and Technical Administration