Landfill Operations Manager

Field Supervisor Landfill Operations Manager

The City of Wichita is not an E-Verify Employer.

About the Office of Environmental Health, Landfill Operations Section :

Landfill Operations include operating the City's construction and demolition landfill, industrial landfill, and composting site as well as maintaining the current and past landfills following closure, per State and Federal regulations. These operations provide a means of disposal for City waste, primarily street sweepings, illegal dumping, neighborhood clean ups, construction debris, and grass clippings. The operation of open and closed landfills is key in ensuring Wichita's continued focus on Environmental Health and Safety.

Vision Statement :

Provide environmentally sustainable composting, recycling, and landfill facilities for City and public waste, and manage the long-term closure process of past and current landfill facilities.

What We Are Looking For :

Looking for individuals who take pride in their work. Seeking individuals to join a team that provides excellent service. Are you ready to be part of an organization that will help you achieve your career goals? Are you ready to see what you can accomplish for the community?

This is a working supervisory position which performs a wide variety of duties both administrative and operational to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental and waste management statutes and regulations. Work involves directing the activities of laborers, equipment operators, office staff, and lower-level supervisors in the daily operation and maintenance of the City's active and closed landfill sites. Work involves scheduling, training, advising, inspecting, evaluating, reporting, ordering, permitting, estimating, and monitoring. Technical expertise is required in all areas being supervised and in the proper use, care, and maintenance of tools and equipment.

The position exercises independent decision making in response to situations involving active and closed landfill operations. General direction, strategic goals, maintenance plans, and priorities are established by higher-level supervision.

This position will require working both indoors in an office setting and outdoors in inclement weather including but not limited to, rain, snow, ice, sleet, heat, and humidity and may include snow and ice removal and / or emergency response operations that would include operating equipment and vehicles on overnight shifts, weekends, and in low-light and low-visibility conditions, or other adverse weather conditions.

Workdays and Hours - Monday - Friday 8 : 00am - 5 : 00pm Bargaining Unit : Employee Council Posting may close at any time

Examples of Work Performed :

• Prepare schedules and work assignments for employees.
• Prepare and issue asbestos disposal authorization permits.
• Direct the construction and maintenance of the landfill tipping deck.
• Direct and participates in the maintenance of buildings, equipment, roads, landfill infrastructure, and / or grounds.
• Ensure compliance with safety, EEO, and other regulations that govern work performed.
• Completes required daily, weekly, monthly, and annual reports.
• Recommend policy and procedure improvements.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, county, and local statutes, regulations, and permit requirements.
• Ensure the Facility Operations Plan and the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan remain up to date and are being followed.
• Ensure that preventive maintenance is performed on varied and complicated equipment.
• Maintain program and project data files and assist with database management.
• Maintain the daily activity log.
• Trains entry-level employees.
• Supervises other employees having difficult or technical problems.
• Coordinates work with other divisions as necessary.
• Investigates complaints and follows through appropriately.
• Directs the development and administration of safety activities among employees.
• Monitors work in process, making frequent on-site evaluations.
• Evaluates employee performance and initiates recommendations for disciplinary action and / or merit recognition.
• Inspects and documents construction projects.
• Gather and compile data related to inventory and condition of the active and closed landfills and landfill gas collection systems.
• Confer with suppliers and purchases materials and supplies.
• Schedule and monitor service contractors.
• Communicate with regulatory agencies, to include the Kansas Department of Health and Environment Bureaus of Waste Management and the Sedgwick County Department of Environmental Resources.
• Make and check engineering computations.
• Prepares and presents technical reports.
• Completion of work assignments will require the operation of a vehicle.
• May be required to assist at the scale house window, weighing vehicles in and out and collecting payment for services rendered.
• These examples are not intended to be all-inclusive.
• Other related duties may be assigned as needed.

Requirements of Work :