Responsibilities: 

• Ensures that the facilities daily activities operate smoothly and efficiently

• Hiring & training key facility staff members

• Monitor and review reports to ensure employees are meeting performance standards

• Create procedures to improve safety, quality, and productivity

• Responsible for all elements of facility operations to include plant safety

• Establish production schedules and ensuring productivity

• Work to motivate employees to accomplish production targets

• Develop & implement daily and long-term operations strategy

• Provide technical guidance to staff members

• Allocate resources wisely and fully utilize assets to achieve best results

• Create and manage budgets

• Create reports for key production areas and procedures to distribute to executives

• Ensure team members have a strong sense of direction and focus

• Develop a trusted relationship with employees

Experience and Skill Requirements: 

• Extensive understanding of operational planning

• 10 years hands-on experience formulating and implementing plans, strategies, resource allocations and budgeting

• Well-versed in Health, Safety and Environmental laws governing hazardous waste recycling

• Problem solving abilities

• Computer literacy

• Communication and personnel management skills

• Organization skills 

• Conflict management skills

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to wear personal protective gear most of the day.

• Must be able to see and respond to dangerous situations.

• Must be able to lift and carry or otherwise move 50 pounds occasionally.

• Must be able to ascend and descend ladders, scaffolds, stairs, and work in confined spaces and in proximity to loud equipment.

• Must be able to respond quickly to sounds.

• Must be able to work in cold/hot environments and on concrete floors.

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.

• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position.

• The worker is required to have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment.

Working Conditions:

• The worker is required to function in narrow aisles or passageways.

• The worker is subject to atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system: Fumes, odors, dust, mist, gases, or poor ventilation.

• The worker is subject to fluids: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other fluids 

• The worker is required to wear a respirator.

• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.