Job Description

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.

Job Summary

Plans, organizes and leads the Company's Landfill Gas Program while reporting to the VP - Disposal Operations Support. Environmental Management Group This Corporate team addressing LFG related issues such as; safety, training of in house landfill gas technicians, creating and implementing design and construction standards for Gas Collection and Control Systems (GCCS), coordinating activities focused on data acquisition, and interpretation of Federal and State regulations. The Company's Landfill Gas Program also includes providing technical expertise to support Area LFG operations and the development of landfill gas to energy projects.

Additional, duties include oversight of the Elevated Temperature Landfill "ETLF" Program corporate-wide direction based on companywide strategic goals and objectives. Responsible for establishing, developing and implementing the policies, procedures and systems relating to engineering and operations at our existing and potential ETLF facilities. Obtains advanced information on new developments in regulatory changes in environmental requirements, incorporates this data into the organization's strategic and tactical business planning, and designs and implements tactical plans for dealing with specific ETLF operations throughout the organization. Communicates with Corporate and Area Management regarding the policies and procedures, best management practices for ensuring that environmental standards are met for existing ETLFs and precluding development of new ETLFs. This role would require at least 50% travel.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Landfill Gas:

• Leadership in the creation and implementation of specifications for the design, installation, and operation of landfill gas collection systems.
• Ability to review technical data concerning landfill gas modeling and providing projections for the development of landfill gas to energy facilities.
• Provide technical assistance to the review of Federal or State environmental regulations concerning Landfill Gas.
• Support the implementation of the Company's Landfill Gas Program at the Area Level. This would include items such as; technical standards for material and equipment purchases, training, safety, and minimization of LFG emissions.
• Provide budgetary review of proposed GCCS Area capital budgets. Ensure both compliance and optimization of the collection of LFG is achieved through the budgeted projects.

Elevated Temperature (ETLF):

• Plans, directs, and coordinates activities of internal and external staff involved in directing research, procedures, best management practices, equipment, and techniques to provide environmental solutions to the corporation's handling of ETLFs. More specifically:
• Leads the process for identifying the probability of the occurrence of an ETLF.
• Works with the corporate and field team in evaluating the collected data and establishes the classification of the potential facilities.
• Leads the research and development of mitigation strategies and processes associated with ETLF.
• Develops and implements safety proper safety protocol to address the aspects of hot liquids and gases under pressure. This will include evaluating waste stability, implementing early warning systems, etc. to keep on-site and off-site situations safe.
• Develops short and long-term mitigation strategy if a facility is classified at a level that requires action.
• Coordinate funding, logistics for work progression and actual progress identified in the mitigation plans ensuring quality of work is being performed as per the standards.
• Provides leadership and program management to Corporate and Field Directors in the following disciplines as it relates to ETLF: Engineering Science, Wastewater Treatment Alternative, Environmental Compliance, Landfill Gas Treatment.
• Balances the financial goals of the enterprise with the external regulations and applied environmental solutions.
• Confers with federal regulatory agencies to discover national environmental quality standards, industrial practices, and new developments in pollution abatement.

Qualifications

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

Education and Experience

• Education: Bachelor's Degree including Engineering, Environmental Management, or similar area of study required. Masters of Sciences Degree, in Engineering, Environmental Management preferred. Certifications and/or PE license preferred but not required.
• Experience: Fifteen plus years of landfill experience. Experience should include a minimum of 5 years of primary focus on landfill gas management design and operation, Experience should also include a minimum of 5 years of management responsibility. Similar area of study, and fifteen or more years previous experience.
• Must live and work in the US.

Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required

• An enthusiastic, dedicated, self-disciplined and self-reliant person capable of being decisive with the best available scientific evidence and judgment.
• An ability to clearly articulate (both verbally and written) in a professional manner to fellow employees as well as multi-disciplinary group of internal and external technical experts.
• Capable of multi-tasking on a wide range of activities in an ever-changing setting.
• Capable of utilizing Microsoft Office Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and SharePoint.
• Motivate and challenge to drive high performance.
• Role model and enable development of competencies in others needed to implement WM's strategy.
• Establish and support a safety culture in which all accidents are preventable.
• Must be a team player who can work within a matrix organization to achieve results.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and build strong relationships and facilitate changes in systems and processes to support internal and external customers; has quickly evaluated a complex system and identified problems and potential solutions.
• Demonstrated strong strategic thinking and ability to execute and implement.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead cross-functional teams to results.
• Possess strong financial acumen and operational expertise.

Work Environment

Normal setting for this job is: office setting

The expected base pay range for this position across the U.S. is $185,000 - $230,000. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific salary offered to a successful candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate's relevant experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location.

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.

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About Us

ABOUT WM

WM (WM.com) is North America's largest comprehensive waste management environmental solutions provider. Previously known as Waste Management and based in Houston, Texas, WM is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides collection, recycling and disposal services to millions of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. With innovative infrastructure and capabilities in recycling, organics and renewable energy, WM provides environmental solutions to and collaborates with its customers in helping them achieve their sustainability goals. WM has the largest disposal network and collection fleet in North America, is the largest recycler of post-consumer materials and is the leader in beneficial reuse of landfill gas, with a growing network of renewable natural gas plants and the most gas-to-electricity plants in North America. WM's fleet includes nearly 11,000 natural gas trucks - the largest heavy-duty natural gas truck fleet of its kind in North America - where more than half are fueled by renewable natural gas. To learn more about WM and the company's sustainability progress and solutions, visit Sustainability.WM.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity

For United States: WM is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

For Canada: WM is committed to the principle of equal employment for all applicants and employees, without discrimination on the basis of all grounds protected by applicable human rights legislation. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please notify us if you require accommodation.

Real ID

In order to travel by air or access federal property, federal law requires individuals have a REAL ID or an acceptable alternative. This position may require the successful candidate to travel by air for business reasons, or service federal property. Accordingly, successful candidates must have, or be willing to obtain, a REAL ID, or TSA approved alternative.