District Manager - Hazardous Waste

The rural community of Emelle, Alabama, in Sumter County, offers outdoor activities focused on hunting white tailed deer and wild turkey, trophy sized bass fishing, and boating in local recreational areas and nearby lakes.

Preferred Skills and Experience: Minimum of 3-5 years of leadership experience. Candidates with hazardous waste / chemical waste experience and experience managing other leaders will be given priority; landfill experience is a plus. Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Proficient with Microsoft Office.

Hours: Manages a 24/7 facility; site typically closes by 12:00 pm CT most Saturdays and is typically closed on Sundays, (some exceptions). Will mostly work the day shift; however, must be flexible to work multiple shifts, as business dictates.

Waste Management (WM), a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.

I. Job Summary
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.

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned.

• 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.

III. Supervisory Responsibilities
The highest level of supervisory skills required in this job is the management of supervisory employees. This includes:

• Direct supervision of, approximately, 10 full-time employees, including:
  Department Managers, Supervisors.
• Indirect supervision of, approximately, 100 full-time employees, including Equipment Operators, Drivers, Technicians, etc.

IV. Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.

A. Education and Experience

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's Degree (accredited) , or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and 4 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience:
  
  3 years of relevant work experience (in addition…