Landfill Manager

Job description / Role

Overall Responsibilities
The landfill Manager is responsible for overseeing all operations and activities at the landfill site. This includes managing daily landfilling operations, supervising 30+ staff in 2 shifts, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing budgets and costs, coordinating with local authorities and community groups, supervising the landfill cell closures, landfill gas extraction & treatment (flaring); landfill gas to energy or any other activity related, and developing policies and procedures.

Specific Duties
- Coordinate and oversee daily waste acceptance, waste placement/compaction, earthmoving, road maintenance, litter control, heavy equipment activities, leachate treatment activities; LF gas treatment activities, LF gas to Energy activities, and any other activity in the landfill site.
- Ensure landfill policies, procedures, and best practices are followed to maintain a safe, efficient, and compliant operation.
- Supervise, train and evaluate landfill staff including technicians; equipment operators, maintenance crew, administrative staff, etc.
- Track operational costs/budgets and prepare a saving plan.
- Ensure compliance with contract terms and conditions, local, country regulations including permitting, waste acceptance, environmental controls, etc.
- Coordinate construction activities for new landfill cells and closure activities on completed cells.
- Liaise with regulators, authorities, officials, and other stakeholders.
- Collect and evaluate environmental monitoring data; submit regulatory reporting.
- Follow, develop, implement, and update Standards Operations Procedures (SOPs), emergency plans, safety policies, environmental controls, and other operating procedures.
- Lead the QHSE within the site.
- Ensure a high level of integrity towards the client by handling the client meeting and submitting the documents on time.
- Provide technical support to the Proposal team on new projects.

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree, in environmental science or related field.
- 10+ years experience in landfill operations, and integrated waste management systems including leachate treatment, LF gas treatment, and LF gas to energy.
- Solid waste management certifications.
- Budget management skills.
- Strong leadership and communication abilities.
- IOSH and/or NEBOSH certificate.
- IT literate with experience in operational management systems.
- Valid GCC driving license.

About the Company

Veolia is the world's largest environmental services company.

For over 160 years, Veolia has provided public and private sectors with Water, Energy and Waste Management solutions and services which are vital to human development and sustainable growth.

With over 200,000 employees on five continents, Veolia designs practical solutions for the management (operation, treatment, distribution and/or supply) of Water, Waste and Energy. Through these three complementary activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, to preserve available resources and to renew them.

Veolia Group achieved revenues of EUR 28.5billion in 2021. (In 2020) the Veolia Group served 95mn inhabitants with drinking water, 62mn with sanitation, produced nearly 43mn MWH of energy, and recycled 47mn tonnes of waste.

Veolia aims to become the benchmark company for ecological transformation. Our goal is to build a better 21st century. We therefore see ourselves as #resourcers.

VEOLIA IN THE NEAR & MIDDLE EAST

Veolia has operated in the Middle East for over 30 years, providing innovative and sustainable water & waste services to industries, governments & communities, retail and commercial businesses.

Veolia has more than 3,000 employees in the Near & Middle East and a strong regional network of ~12 offices in the UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey.

Veolia currently has over 6,000 project references of work delivered in the region, and continues to develop new projects through public-private partnerships and innovative contractual schemes.