Environmental Compliance

Waste Connections is looking to hire an Environmental Manager to manage environmental program and special waste streams for facilities across 8 states.  This is an excellent opportunity with Waste Connections!

Responsibilities will include the following:

• Review and approve industrial and special waste profiles against local, state, and federal regulations to protect facility personnel and ensure landfill compliance.
• Support our customers and sales team in identifying and optimizing waste handling solutions and advancing environmental sustainability initiatives.
• Review and understand all environmental permits governing our various facilities (landfill, transfer station, material recycling facility, and hauling) and provide guidance to Region Engineers and District leadership to verify compliance.
• Conduct environmental audits at our various landfill, transfer station, material recycling facility, and hauling locations.
• Perform environmental compliance activities through communication with Regulatory Agency representatives and third-party consultants (e.g. SPCC, SWPPP, groundwater monitoring, and Title V).

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Ability to follow established procedures with minimal amount of direct supervision.
• Capability to interpret documents such as safety rules, contracts, federal, state and local regulations, engineering design and operating plans, maintenance and procedural manuals.
• Excellent technical report writing skills.
• Aptitude to define problems, collect data, interpret data and draw valid conclusions.
• Experience to predict and manage future compliance needs and adapt to changing regulatory environments.
• Skill to build and maintain strong relationships with sales team, operations team, outside consultants and vendors, and customers.
• Desire to be a leader in the company’s special waste market and to learn and grow all business sectors across the company.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Chemistry, or related field.
• 4 or more years of practical environmental experience.
• The ability to travel up to 50 percent of the time.
• CHMM, CHMP, or CHP certifications preferred.

Successful candidates are those seeking a mix of field service, remote office if desired, and business office work in an environment of operational excellence and accountability.  As leaders, we serve the field as part of a regional team.  We offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and unlimited opportunities to “Connect with Your Future”. 

Waste Connections is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer (Minority/ Female/ Disabled/ Veterans).