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Interstate Waste Services

Interstate Waste Services

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Operations Manager

Far Rockaway, NY
full-time
Posted 10/7/2025
Verified Source
Key Skills:
Operations Management
Budget Management
Coaching
Employee Relations
OSHA Compliance
Process Improvement
Performance Metrics
Safety Compliance
Customer Relations
Logistics

Compensation

Salary Range

$110K - 110K a year

Responsibilities

Manage day-to-day depot operations, oversee supervisors and staff, ensure safety and compliance, manage budgets and performance metrics, and maintain community and customer relations.

Requirements

Associate degree or equivalent experience with 3+ years in transportation, logistics, or solid waste operations including supervisory experience, budget management, OSHA safety program implementation, and labor relations.

Full Description

Overview: Interstate Waste Services is the most progressive and innovative provider of solid waste and recycling services in the country! We primarily service Northern New Jersey, Southern New York State, New York City, with a landfill located in Ohio, where we also own and operate a state-of-the-art rail-served landfill. We cater to a diverse range of residential, industrial, and commercial customers. Our mission has always been to provide our customers with the highest quality waste, recycling, and environmental services, while keeping focus on employee, customer, and environmental safety. What makes our company culture unique is we have mastered the ability to balance the standards of a large corporate company while maintaining our small business family style culture. Overview: Reporting to the Site Manager, the Operations Manager manages the day-to-day operations of a single depot and establishes and maintains performance and productivity metrics and cost management processes. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned. • Manages the day-to-day operations of the depot and provides daily support to supervisors in ensuring quality and budget performance. • Monitors budget and operating metrics while diagnosing and improving processes, procedures, and performance. • Executes necessary precautions to ensure safety and compliance with Company, OSHA, and other standards and regulations. • Ensures thorough root cause investigations for all injuries and incidents, following-up with consistent discipline and retraining. • Oversees personnel needs of the department including selecting, coaching, disciplining, and training employees and evaluating employee performance. Provides input into termination, compensation, and promotion decisions. • Formulates both short-term and long-term goals and action plans in conjunction with the Site Manager and/or Director of Operations. • Participates in regular P&L reviews to ensure that budgets are met; develops and implements programs for optimal equipment utilization, equipment maintenance, and labor and material costs. • Interacts with local city, municipal, and county agencies to ensure customer satisfaction, improve efficiency, renew contracts and negotiate new contracts; establishes IWS as a good corporate citizen and valued resource. • Works with functional groups to resolve employee relations and labor relations issues. Supervisory Responsibilities The highest level of supervisory skills required in this job is the management of supervisory employees. This includes: • Direct supervision of full-time employees: 5 • Indirect supervision of full-time employees: 100 What does it take to be an Operations Manager with IWS? The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job. A. Education and Experience • Education: Associate degree (accredited) or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and 2 years of relevant work experience. • Experience: 3 years of work experience (in addition to education requirement) in transportation, logistics, or solid waste operations in which coaching, routing assessments and leading employees • Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required • Experience in a position involving operations, customer service, community relations, health and safety, financial, and human resources function, experience as a supervisor or manager; experience implementing safety (OSHA) programs and equipment specifications, experience preparing and managing budgets, and experience resolving labor relations issues required. Work Environment Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. Normal setting for this job is: office/field setting. Essential Job Summary:: Additional Information: IWS’s base pay actually offered takes into account a range of factors including, but not limited to, internal equity, the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Bonus: This role is bonus eligible as part of the compensation package. Benefits: IWS employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should an employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance, retirement savings benefits, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents. Career opportunities We believe in providing the training and development you need to grow your career with Interstate Waste Services. Many of our Supervisors, Managers, and other leadership staff started their careers as Helpers, Drivers, or Dispatchers. IWS is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. This job description is intended to be an accurate representation of the general functions of the job, rather than exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities, or experience. Other duties may be assigned, requested, or required. Aspects of the job may be altered without notice. Interstate Waste Services provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment andprohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Salary Range Minimum: USD $110,000.00/Yr. Skills: Budget Management, Budgeting, Coaching, Community Relations, Contract Approval, Contract Negotiation, Corporate Compliance, Cost Control, Customer Relations, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Support/Service, Disciplinary Action, Employee Relations, Environmental Work, Equipment Maintenance/Repair, Equipment Specification, High School Diploma, Human Resources, Identify Issues, Industrial Relations, Leadership, Logistics, Maintain Compliance, Metrics, OSHA, Operations Management, People Management, Performance Metrics, Performance Reviews, Problem Solving Skills, Procedure Development, Process Improvement, Profit & Loss, Recycling, Regulations, Root Cause Analysis, Safety Compliance, Safety Process, Safety/Work Safety, Small Business, Staff Requirements, Staff Training, Team Player, Training/Teaching About the Company: Interstate Waste Services

This job posting was last updated on 10/8/2025

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