Outbound Manager

Company Description

Veolia has acquired Clean Earth. As Clean Earth completes its integration into Veolia, recruiting and hiring for this role is being managed in partnership with the Clean Earth talent acquisition team. Veolia in North America is the top-ranked environmental company in the United States for three consecutive years, and the country’s largest private water operator and technology provider as well as hazardous waste and pollution treatment leader. It offers a full spectrum of water, waste, and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. Veolia helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Veolia has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across North America.

Job Description

Under the guidance of the Plant General Manager, the Outbound Manager will oversee outbound operations, plan office production, and act as a technical resource for the team. The Outbound Manager will review outbound waste streams and creates accurate loads for shipment and determines appropriate disposal method. Utilizing their strong leadership skills, the Outbound Manager will ensure their staff track all waste in compliance with Clean Earth’s policy and applicable local, state, and federal regulations. The Outbound Manager will coordinate regularly with Plant management to ensure safe, proper, and consistent handling of all outbound waste.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions): The main duties and responsibilities.

Outbound

• Ship treated waste to permanent storage facilities, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Manage outbound shipping of treated waste, ensuring efficient and compliant operations.
• Maintain inventory in waste tracking system.
• Manages Outbound Team to ensure daily production goals are met.
• Provide ad-hoc approvals to outbound disposal 3rd party facilities.

Inbound

• Provide insights on waste receiving strategies and methods, offering recommendations for improvement.
• Provide insights on lab testing strategies and methods, offering recommendations for improvement.

Waste Processing

• Stay updated on changes in waste processing and treatment regulations and industry standards.

Plant Management

• Provide expertise and recommendations for cost management improvement.
• Review Weekly and Monthly Production summaries.
• Keep informed about updates in supply management regulations and industry standards.
• Direct, coach, and develop employees, ensuring they meet operational needs and compliance with company policies.
• Implement safety protocols and compliance measures to ensure operational efficiency and regulatory adherence.
• Stay updated on changes in cost management regulations and industry standards and provide recommendations for improvement.

Performs other related duties and/or project work as required or requested.

Work Environment: 

• Required to wear company-provided personal protective equipment including eye protection, foot protection, hard hat, Tyvek coveralls, and respirator.
• Willingness and ability to travel via automobile, commercial airline and other public transportation as needed 10% or less of the time.
• Must be able to pass a DEA background check when relevant.
• Must be willing and able to abide by Clean Earth’s Core Values and Code of Conduct.

Qualifications

Education: (BA or BS degree required or preferred)

• High School Diploma required, B.S. in an environmental-related field preferred, or can demonstrate related equivalent work experience.
• 40-hour HAZWOPER training completed and current, or ability to obtain.

Experience

• 5+ years of progressive environmental/hazardous waste management experience working in an operations capacity in outbound waste or materials management.
• Experience in the hazardous waste industry and general knowledge of RCRA and Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations as it relates to the transportation and processing of waste is preferred.
• Understanding of waste profiling and tracking related to outbound load creation.

Facilities Management

• Able to Implement and communicate continual improvement of productivity standards and team member safety in all phases of the operation.

Skills: (The skill