As a Landfill Operations Manager, you’ll play a key leadership role in managing daily landfill operations, ensuring safety, efficiency, and compliance. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to grow into higher-level management within 1-3 years. What You’ll Do • Lead and supervise work crews operating heavy equipment and waste handling operations. • Monitor daily operations and adjust staffing or assignments as needed. • Conduct field inspections to ensure safety, compliance, and operational excellence. • Address customer concerns and ensure high service standards. • Coach and mentor team members; conduct performance reviews and development plans. • Set and execute short- and long-term operational goals. • Oversee compliance with environmental, OSHA, and local permitting regulations. • Support a culture of safety and continuous improvement. What You Bring • Bachelor’s degree is strongly preferred. • 3+ years of leadership experience in a fast-paced, people-driven environment. • Experience operating or managing heavy equipment operations preferred. • Strong communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills. • Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines. • Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and business systems. • Willingness to relocate for future promotional opportunities. Your Future Starts Here This role is ideal for a hands-on leader who thrives in a dynamic environment and is eager to grow within a company that values initiative, integrity, and impact. Ready to lead with purpose? Apply today and become part of a company that’s shaping the future of environmental services. To be considered for any of our current openings, you must complete an application at www.careers.wasteconnections.com. Once you select your position of interest, you will find application information and additional instructions. We offer excellent benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a flexible spending account, long-term and short-term disability insurance, life insurance, a 401 (k) retirement plan, and unlimited opportunities to "Connect with Your Future." A link to our benefits overview can be found here: https://careers.wasteconnections.com/why-waste-connections Waste Connections is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability or protected veteran status. Waste Connections is an integrated solid waste services company that provides solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly exclusive and secondary markets. Our goal is to create an environment where self-directed, empowered employees strive to consistently fulfill our constituent commitments and seek to create positive impacts through interactions with customers, communities, and fellow employees. OUR PEOPLE MEAN EVERYTHING TO US Waste Connections is always working to protect the health of the communities we serve, and we are grateful for the hard work and dedication that you bring to your job every day. Working here means you are a safety-minded individual who is making important contributions on a daily basis that will make a positive impact on those around you. We appreciate that you are a person of integrity who takes pride in the work you do. Our Opportunities BUILD TALENT FROM WITHIN People who want to gain valuable professional experience will find that Waste Connections is a fantastic place to work. You’ll enjoy the opportunity for beneficial training and professional development opportunities that can help enhance your skills and lead the way to a more promising future. LET’S REALIZE YOUR GOALS TOGETHER Bring your passion to succeed and you’ll quickly discover that great opportunities are all around you. At Waste Connections, you’ll thrive if you are friendly, dedicated, and prefer a work hard/play hard culture that is focused on maintaining our reputation as the premier waste services company in the markets we serve. Bring your passion to succeed and you’ll quickly discover that great opportunities and people are all around you. We operate a highly decentralized structure, so we look for energetic individuals who can demonstrate individual initiative and creativity and prefer a work hard/play hard team environment and culture. At Waste Connections, diversity and inclusion are essential to our success. We hire and empower great, capable people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lead with our values. For more than 20 years, we have maintained a culture of safety, integrity and service to build a great place to work. Our culture is built on taking care of each other and the communities we serve.

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