COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Our client is a group of industrial businesses with the commitment to creating a more sustainable planet and making significant contributions to human wellbeing. In the US, we are leaders focused on recycling and circular economy, managing all different environmental liabilities in a sustainable way.
POSITION: Landfill Operations Manager
COMPENSATION: Competitive salary + DOE + bonus
BENEFITS: Standard package
LOCATION: Baton Rouge, LA
SUMMARY: As the Landfill Operations Manager, you will lead the day-to-day operations of our Baton Rouge landfill and directly manage a team of approximately 12 employees, including landfill operators, drivers, and administrative staff.
DUTIES OR RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide hands-on leadership and daily direction to a team of approximately 12 landfill operators, drivers, and administrative employees, maintaining an active field presence and helping resolve operational challenges.
- Set clear performance expectations, provide ongoing coaching and feedback, and hold employees accountable for safety, productivity, attendance, and quality of work.
- Plan staffing and daily work assignments to meet operating requirements while effectively managing overtime and available resources.
- Build a collaborative, accountable team culture focused on safety, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee daily landfill surface operations, including grading, waste placement, compaction, cover application, odor control, traffic flow, and waste unloading.
- Drive a strong Environmental, Health, and Safety culture and ensure landfill operations comply with all applicable permits, regulations, environmental standards, safety requirements, and company procedures.
- Coordinate equipment operations, preventive maintenance, repairs, contractors, site construction activities, and planning for future equipment and capital needs.
- Evaluate workflows, equipment utilization, traffic patterns, staffing, and operating practices, and implement practical improvements that increase safety, productivity, efficiency, and cost performance.
- Monitor key operational measures and use performance data to identify trends, address issues, and support operational decisions.
- Monitor leachate, stormwater, perimeter controls, liquid and gas extraction systems, and other environmental control systems
- Ensure incoming and deposited waste is continuously monitored and that materials not permitted on site are identified and removed.
- Supervise required testing and reporting, including monitoring well sampling, cover material utilization, and soil reports, and provide information to the Environmental Manager as needed.
- Partner with Environmental, Maintenance, Transportation, and regional leadership to resolve operational constraints and support site development.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
- Minimum of five years of direct landfill operations experience required.
- Previous experience leading or supervising employees in a landfill environment required.
- Strong working knowledge of landfill operations, including waste placement, compaction, cover application, equipment utilization, leachate management, stormwater controls, traffic flow, and permit compliance.
- Demonstrated experience improving operational processes, productivity, equipment utilization, or cost performance.
- Proven ability to lead from the field and effectively manage operators, drivers, and administrative employees.
- Ability to analyze operational challenges, develop practical solutions, and follow improvements through implementation.
- High school diploma or GED required; associate or bachelor’s degree in operations, environmental science, business, or a related field preferred.
- Landfill Operator Certification required or ability to obtain it within six months of hire.
- Ability to work the schedule for which you are hired.
- Ability to work on-site as described in the job description.
- Ability to read, write, and understand English.
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