Landfill Operations Manager

Essential Duties And Responsibilities:

• Manages the day-to-day operations of a single site or multiple sites, and establishes and maintains performance and productivity metrics and cost management processes.
• Manages the day-to-day operations of the District, and provides daily support to managers in ensuring quality and budget performance.
• Monitors budget and operating metrics while diagnosing and improving processes, procedures, and performance.
• Executes the Market's strategic capital budget, ensuring effective use of the budget through asset allocation; ensures appropriate spare ratios and asset disposal.
• Executes necessary precautions to ensure safety and compliance with Company, OSHA, and other standards and regulations.
• Ensures thorough root cause investigations for all injuries and incidents, following-up with consistent discipline and retraining.
• Oversees personnel needs of the department including selecting, coaching, disciplining, and training employees and evaluating employee performance. Provides input into termination, compensation, and promotion decisions.
• Formulates both short-term and long-term goals and action plans in conjunction with the Market Area General Manager and/or Director of Operations.
• Participates in regular P&L reviews to ensure that budgets are met; develops and implements programs for optimal equipment utilization, equipment maintenance, and labor and material costs.
• Interacts with local city, municipal, and county agencies to ensure customer satisfaction, improve efficiency, renew contracts and negotiate new contracts; establishes WM as a good corporate citizen and valued resource.
• Engages suppliers in problem solving and participates in suppliers improvement processes by providing performance feedback on supplier surveys.
• Minimizes the total number of suppliers used by working with Supplier Partners to eliminate/reduce the number of one-time suppliers.
• Works with functional groups to resolve employee relations and labor relations issues.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree (accredited), or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and 4 years of relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in a role with supervisory and PNL responsibility (in addition to education requirement).
• ble to perform supervisory responsibilities which includes Direct supervision of 10 full-time employees.
• Experience in a position involving at least 2 of the following: operations, customer service, community relations, health and safety, financial, and human resources function, experience as a supervisor or manager; experience implementing safety (OSHA) programs and equipment specifications, experience preparing and managing budgets, and experience resolving labor relations issues required.
• Work Environment Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job; reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc) most of the work day.
• Required to exert physical effort in handling objects less than 30 pounds rarely.
• Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, burns, exposure to toxic chemicals, etc) rarely.
• Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements most of the work day.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements:
==> NEW EMPLOYEE TRAINING: RCRA, HAZWOPER (24 Hours).

RCRA/HAZWOPER Training:
==> Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA)
==> Clean Air Act (CAA).
==> Clean Water Act (CWA).
==> Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA).
==> Superfund Amendment & Reauthorization Act (SARA).
==> Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).
==> National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES).
==> Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA).
==> Hazardous Waste Transportation Act (HWTA).
==> Code of Federal Regulation (CFR 40, 29, & 49).
==> Contingency Plan.
==> Spill Prevention Control & Countermeasure Plan (SPCC).
==> Security Plan.
==> Hazwoper.

Standard Division Practices (per department) (SDP's).
==> Refresher Training As Required By Law.
==> RCRA.
==> Hazwoper.
==> DOT.
==> Forklift.

Medical Exam:
==> Pre Employment Physical and Drug Test.
==> Complete Physical Biennially.
==> Pulmonary Function Test (PFT), Audiogram and Respirator Fit Test annual.
==> Physical at Termination.

PPE:
==> Respirators Full face OV/AG or half face with face shield.
==> Full face supplied air in some arrears.
==> Suit Appropriate Barrier Suite: Liquid yellow Tyvek with sleeves, apron, booties Solid white tyvek.
==> Gloves appropriate to hazards present PVC over Nitrile or Butyl (Liquid Waste) Leather Work (Solid Waste), Leather/Cloth work (when handling equipment or containers).
==> Overshoes Vinyl Booties Waterproof Boots Chemical Resistant Boots.
==> Safety glasses.
==> Hard Hats.
==> Shoes Steel Toe.