Landfill Operations Supervisor

Waste Connections

6d•$80,000 - $83,000•Onsite

About The Position

At Waste Connections, we’re more than just the premier waste services company in North America—we’re a team of passionate, driven individuals who thrive on making a difference. We believe in empowering our people, encouraging innovation, and fostering a culture where every voice is heard. We’re looking for servant leaders, mentors, and high performers who are ready to grow their careers and have fun doing it. If you’re ready to be part of a company that values integrity, respect, and hard work, we want to hear from you. We invest in long-term career development and offer opportunities to advance into higher-level leadership roles. If you’re ready for new challenges and want to make an impact, this is the place for you. 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. 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. 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.

Requirements

Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to meet tight deadlines and juggle multiple priorities.
Weekends will be required
Demonstrates strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage with employees, customers, contractors, and leadership, ensuring clear direction, alignment with organizational goals, and consistent follow-through.
Ability to relocate for promotional opportunities based on performance
Intermediate to advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite and related business systems.

Nice To Haves

Prior landfill experience
Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Assign and supervise work crews operating in the landfill, self-haul pad, and material recovery facility.
Monitors progress of daily operations, and reassigns employees and makes staffing changes as necessary.
Helps develop and execute safety goals.
Conducts field inspections and audits of all site personnel to ensure proper work procedures.
Receives and reviews customer complaints.
Performs reviews and performance management discussions.
Formulates both short-term and long-term goals and action plans for the Landfill.
Oversees a variety of complex compliance programs: knowledge of and execution of our waste acceptance criteria, landfill gas monitoring system, regulatory agency’s such as CalRecycle, California State Waterboard, OSHA, etc.
Provides operational oversight of heavy equipment (“yellow iron”) and collaborates with maintenance teams to prioritize repairs, support troubleshooting efforts, and ensure equipment reliability and safe operation.