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Onboarding Optimization Manager

WM
Minneapolis, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Jan 2025

About the role

Why join WM?

Stability. Great Pay / Benefits. Growth Opportunities. People-First Culture.

 

About the Role
The Onboarding Optimization Manager is responsible for Centralized Hiring, Onboarding, Retention, and workforce planning for operational success within our organization - primarily supporting the Twin Cities. This role is key to the long-term success of talent within frontline operations.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Manages daily driver candidate interviews, will be able to partner with multiple sites and meet candidates on site, to provide a realistic job preview.
  • Manages logistics of scheduling on site interviews at various sites. Will also be responsible for Weekly new employee onboarding training.
  • Partners with multiple business units to lead workforce planning and set staffing goals for sites. Is responsible for helping move those sites toward achieving those goals.
  • Oversees candidate offer process in partnership with Talent Acquisition partners.
  • Responsible for assurance of OJT completion, and assignment of a Dedicated Driver Trainer/Mentor.
  • Investigates, why employees are leaving the company and provide feedback to business unit leadership, Operations Solutions Manager, Talent Acquisition, and People Team.
  • Assist District manager in the creation and execution of retention strategy for frontline employees.
  • Creates and submits weekly and month end reports to senior management.

 

What does it take to be an Onboarding Optimization Manager? 
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.

  • Education: Bachelor’s Degree (accredited) or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four (4) years of relevant work experience.
  • Experience: 3 years of previous operations management experience (in addition to education requirements) in transportation, logistics, or solid waste operations and three years’ experience interviewing and hiring CDL Drivers and other frontline positions.

 

About our Benefits
At WM, each eligible salaried employee receives a competitive total compensation package including:

  • Industry leading health insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 401(K) + company match
  • Life Insurance
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Employee Discount Programs 


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As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
 

ABOUT WM WM (WM.com) is North America’s largest comprehensive waste management environmental solutions provider. Previously known as Waste Management and based in Houston, Texas, WM is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides collection, recycling and disposal services to millions of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. With innovative infrastructure and capabilities in recycling, organics and renewable energy, WM provides environmental solutions to and collaborates with its customers in helping them achieve their sustainability goals. WM has the largest disposal network and collection fleet in North America, is the largest recycler of post-consumer materials and is the leader in beneficial reuse of landfill gas, with a growing network of renewable natural gas plants and the most gas-to-electricity plants in North America. WM’s fleet includes nearly 11,000 natural gas trucks – the largest heavy-duty natural gas truck fleet of its kind in North America – where more than half are fueled by renewable natural gas. To learn more about WM and the company’s sustainability progress and solutions, visit Sustainability.WM.com.

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