Operations Supervisor

Safely monitor and supervise all site operations and employees while ensuring all equipment is in proper working order. Provide leadership, which results in positive employee/employer relations. Project a professional corporate image, effective resource management, a sound risk management program, high production standards and business expansion and profitable operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Sustain a productive and motivated workforce by screening, selecting, hiring, training and developing and evaluating personnel required to meet service commitments.
• Adhere to all wage and hour laws and compensate personnel for services rendered in accordance with established guidelines.
• Ensure safe working conditions at each job.
• Develop and implement an effective preventive maintenance program that reduces down time, reduces maintenance costs and results in lowest cost of service possible.
• Schedule and conduct safety meetings and document attendees and topics covered. Ensure employees follow safety guidelines and perform duties in a safe manner.
• Maintain necessary records.
• Manage inventory of supplies and materials.
• Operate equipment as necessary.
• Conform in all respects with applicable federal, state/provincial and local laws, regulations, ordinances and other orders and to all company policies, procedures and directives from supervisors.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
  
  

Requirements:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Three (3) or more years experience in the waste industry desired (landfill or transfer operations preferred).
• One (1) year supervisory experience.
• Combination of education and/or experience.
• For Transfer Stations must possess (within 60 days of hire) a SWANA certified transfer station operator.
• For Landfills must have one (1) years of experience operating horizontal baler and bobcat/forklit. Also must successfully complete training for certification in the removal of Freon and handling of hazardous materials (i.e. motor oil, lead-acid batteries, PCB’s, and CFC’s, etc.)
  
  

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent leadership, communication and management skills.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, instruction and procedure manuals, routing reports and correspondence.
• Ability to satisfactorily perform all duties required.
• Ability to regularly lift/move up to 35 pounds and occasionally lift/move up to 50 pounds.
  
  

Physical/Mental Demands:

• Ability to stand, sit, walk, use hands and fingers, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk, hear, climb, balance, taste and smell.
• Visual Requirements: include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to regularly lift/move up to 35 pounds and occasionally lift/move up to 50 pounds.
  
  

Working Conditions:

• Work in outdoor environment 70% of the time.
• Frequently exposed to loud noise, humidity, hot and cold weather conditions, moving mechanical parts, vibration, toxic and caustic chemicals, fumes and airborne particles.
• Occasionally work in high precarious places.
• Noise level is usually loud.
  
  

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