Senior Technical Manager

Job Description

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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

Provides technical guidance and oversight to several Hazardous Waste Business Units with the Area to ensure compliance with regulatory agencies and facility permits, as well as determine hazardous waste solutions to customer needs on an area level, including utilizing brokers.

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.

• Assessing and determining business efficiency and solutions for all Hazardous BUs within the Area for all involved stakeholders
• Works in conjunction with Operations and EP Manager(s) on improvement of applicable process and treatment methods
• Provides regulatory and technical guidance to sales, approvals, customer service, and operations personnel.
• Organizes and schedules all necessary resources required to accomplish activities.
• Works with regulatory agencies to obtain reasonable permit conditions and other requirements.
• Develops, implements, and maintains systems to support and monitor compliance and minimize risk.
• Reviews and signs environmental and other reports and project submittals.
• Reviews all waste approvals and provides second signature authorization.
• Provides technical assistance to operations to improve existing or develop new treatment methods. Develops and maintains written documents and/or plans.
• Maintains a technical communication network amongst various coordinators and participates in community out-reach efforts.
• Oversees personnel needs including selecting, coaching, and training employees and evaluating employee performance. Provides input into termination, compensation, and promotion decisions.
• Submits reasonable budget information and analyzes data versus year-to-date data and prior year budget.
  
  
  
  

III. Supervisory Responsibilities

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

Direct supervision of full-time employees

IV. Qualifications

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

Education and Experience

Education: Bachelor's Degree (accredited), or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four (4) years of experience.

Experience: Minimum of ten (10) years of previous experience (in addition to education requirement).

• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements
  
  
  
  

None required.

• Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required
  
  
  
  

Project planning, budgeting, extensive knowledge of hazardous waste regulations, hazardous waste treatment, site operations, chemistry/engineering, and supervisory/management skill required.

V. 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.) part 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.) part of the work day;
• Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements part of the work day;
• Normal setting for this job is: office setting or client site.
  
  
  
  

Benefits

At Waste Management, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.

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