Materials Audit Lead

Role Overview

The Materials Audit Lead plays a key role in advancing CAA's mission to improve recycling and resource recovery across Colorado. This position oversees CAA's statewide Waste Characterization Program, managing staff and contractors responsible for daily operations, field sampling, and data analysis at the materials audit center. By leading waste and recycling audits, ensuring high-quality sampling standards, and implementing advanced data collection methods, the Materials Audit Lead transforms raw data into actionable insights that drive measurable improvements in recyclable recovery. This role also fosters innovation in sorting, measurement, and reporting processes-helping shape data-driven strategies that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of Colorado's materials management system.

Key Responsibilities

CAA Colorado Waste Characterization Program

• Oversee CAA Colorado's waste characterization program.
• Collaborate with CAA's national and state teams to identify key learnings from the waste characterization studies for translation into improved recyclables recovery.
• Maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for material sampling, sorting, weighing, and reporting.
• Plan, schedule and oversee the audit sample sortation and data collection process ensuring comprehensive and accurate composition record keeping.
• Oversee, review, and approve the audit sample composition results, addressing any errors as necessary and implementing process improvements to help eliminate error recurrence. Ensure all record keeping is accurate and uploaded / input into the CAA's tracking system to meet all reporting requirements.
• Report and flag sample results that contain high, unusual, or hazardous contamination and forward this information to the Collections team to address directly with the participating Collector.
• Participate in audit process evaluation and performance management focusing on improvement and implementation of auditing processes and tools to drive efficiency and productivity, reduce error, and enhance performance.
• Coordinate activities related to special studies by identifying additional sorting categories, overseeing necessary logistics and sorting arrangements, and communicating special requirements to the audit team. Produce necessary information for invoicing the special studies as required.
• Collaborate with CAA's national and state teams to harmonize the audit program, protocols, and categories.

CAA Colorado Recyclable Materials Audit Center

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Compensation & Other Information

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