Director of Post Collections

Interstate Waste Services • Danbury, CT

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About The Position

Interstate Waste Services (IWS) is a leading provider of solid waste and recycling services in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut markets, with a rail-served landfill in Ohio. IWS is dedicated to delivering high-quality waste, recycling, and environmental services while prioritizing the safety of its employees, customers, and communities. The company serves a diverse range of industrial, medical, and commercial/residential customers. Founded in 1998, IWS has grown through acquisitions, maintaining the values of a family-run business alongside the resources of a large company. The Director of Post Collection is responsible for leading safe, compliant, efficient, and cost-effective transfer station operations within their assigned market. This role provides strategic and day-to-day oversight of transfer station throughput, material handling, loading and hauling coordination, facility maintenance, labor planning, customer service, environmental compliance, and operating performance. The Director collaborates with various departments, including collection operations, maintenance, safety, environmental compliance, finance, dispatch, and senior leadership, to ensure post-collection activities align with service reliability, productivity, regulatory requirements, and company objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, operations management, environmental science, logistics, engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
• Minimum of seven years of progressively responsible operations leadership experience in solid waste, recycling, environmental services, logistics, transportation, heavy industrial, or related operations; transfer station or post-collection experience strongly preferred.
• Minimum of five years of people leadership experience, including supervising managers or multi-site operations teams.
• Strong working knowledge of transfer station operations, material handling, equipment utilization, hauling logistics, facility maintenance, scale operations, safety practices, and environmental compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, analyze operational data, identify performance trends, control costs, and implement process improvements.
• Ability to lead in a fast-paced, safety-sensitive environment, exercise sound judgment, resolve operational issues, and communicate effectively with employees, customers, vendors, regulators, and senior leadership.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and ability to use operational systems, reporting tools, scale systems, maintenance systems, and other business technology.
• Valid driver’s license required; ability to travel between company locations and work outside normal business hours as operational needs require.
• Knowledge of OSHA, DOT, EPA, state environmental regulations, solid waste permits, and local transfer station requirements preferred.

Responsibilities

• Directs and oversees transfer station operations, including receiving, weighing, tipping, sorting, processing, loading, hauling coordination, housekeeping, and traffic flow to ensure safe and efficient movement of materials.
• Leads, coaches, and develops transfer station managers, supervisors, scale personnel, equipment operators, laborers, and other operations team members; supports staffing, scheduling, performance management, training, and accountability.
• Ensures operations are performed in accordance with company policies, OSHA requirements, environmental permits, applicable federal, state, and local regulations, and site-specific operating procedures.
• Monitors daily operating metrics, including tons handled, cycle times, trailer utilization, labor productivity, equipment availability, contamination, customer wait times, and disposal or transportation costs; develops corrective action plans as needed.
• Partners with maintenance leadership to prioritize preventive maintenance, repairs, equipment readiness, facility upkeep, and capital improvement needs for transfer station assets, rolling stock, compactors, scales, loaders, trailers, and related infrastructure.
• Develops and manages operating budgets, forecasts, purchase approvals, expense controls, vendor performance, and cost-reduction initiatives while maintaining safety, service, and compliance standards.
• Maintains required operational, safety, environmental, tonnage, and customer records; prepares reports and presents performance updates, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Coordinates with collection, dispatch, disposal outlets, recycling facilities, rail or third-party transportation partners, municipalities, commercial customers, and regulatory agencies to resolve operational issues and support business continuity.
• Champions a safety-first culture by ensuring completion of safety meetings, incident investigations, root cause analysis, corrective actions, employee observations, training, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Supports planning for growth, acquisitions, integration of new facilities, permit changes, process improvements, technology adoption, and operational standardization across post-collection operations.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director