We are currently seeking a highly capable, self-directed individual to serve as the Solid Waste and Sustainability District Manager at Champ Landfill in Maryland Heights, Missouri. This is one of the Midwest’s most exciting leadership roles in the solid waste and renewable energy sector.

Champ Landfill Background: Situated in an active limestone quarry, Champ is a premier resource management center delivering renewable energy, safe materials handling and disposal services. Formerly the Fred Weber Sanitary Landfill, Champ is the largest solid waste facility in Missouri in the middle of its largest city. The site’s neighbors include two schools, a church, multiple businesses including an adventure park, St. Louis’ largest amphitheater, a casino, corporate woods, and two large subdivisions. Most of Champ’s neighbors are active partners and/or participants in the Facility’s sustainability initiatives.

Your Role: You will head a team of site and region managers to continue Champ’s transformation from being a landfill to a facility delivering sustainable solutions for the region and striving for continued financial growth while achieving demonstrable reductions in the site’s carbon footprint.

Total Comp: $225-250k with Bonus Opportunities!

Your Core Work Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of over 25 professionals to efficiently manage over 3,500 tons of waste per day. Above all else will be your commitment to human health/safety, compliance, and environmental stewardship.
• Lead and manage the site’s operations with a forward thinking mindset. Oversee intricate landfill gas collection/control and leachate removal/pretreatment systems; continually striving for opportunities in improved operating efficiencies.
• Partner closely with our local hauling company managers along with our municipal, commercial, roll-off, and special waste partners to expand Champ and Waste Connections’ growth.
• Interact with and manage coordination between multiple on site parties to include an active quarry company, asphalt plant, concrete plant, and two landfill gas-to-energy ventures.
• Be able to run the business of Champ. Must be familiar with budgeting, forecasting expenses, managing expenses/capital purchases and projects. Must be able to drive revenue creation, analyze/execute pricing strategies, and manage customer contracts.
• Lead construction as well as drive growth of the Waste Connections Sustainability systems and campus including a new state of the art Sustainability Education Center. Evaluate new opportunities to harness value from discarded materials and assess viability of technologies/techniques toward that end.
• Be a key voice in further developing relationships and partnerships with municipal partners, businesses, regulators, schools, church officials, local reporters, and special interest groups. Regularly attend/participate in government, community and business events.
• Be passionate about coaching and developing employees at all levels in the organization.
• Foster the work hard, play harder attitude that defines Waste Connections.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in engineering, the sciences, or business.
• 10+ years management level experience in solid waste, mining, oil & gas, or civil construction.
• Demonstrated highly effective leadership of diverse groups of blue and white-collar people
• Knowledge of waste hauling, recycling, and disposal operating systems
• Broad Knowledge of environmental and health/safety regulations and laws
• Flexibility in spending several days at a time being away from home
• Accustomed to being exposed to challenging physical environments which involves, dirt, odor, noise, weather extremes or similar elements

You will be joining colleagues who embrace a “work hard, play harder” culture. Our total compensation package is competitive and comes with excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending account, long term disability, life insurance and a 100% company match 401(k) retirement plan. You’ll also be associating yourself with a company that leads by example, through a strong presence in our local communities, charitable giving, sustainability initiatives and more.

Waste Connections is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer (Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans)