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Job Summary\nThe Director, Corporate Engineering provides strategic and operational leadership for the company's engineering function across landfill operations, renewable energy assets, and environmental compliance initiatives. This role is responsible for developing engineering standards, leading capital project planning, driving operational excellence, and ensuring engineering activities support the company's safety, sustainability, regulatory, and financial objectives.\nThe Director partners closely with Operations, Environmental Compliance, Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Fleet, Finance, Procurement, Legal and senior leadership teams to deliver complex capital projects, improve asset reliability, optimize operating performance, and support long-term business growth.\nII. Essential Duties and Responsibilities\nManagement of the monthly processes associated with Landfill Capital projects submitted for review at WM investment committee meetings.\nManagement of WM’s annual Engineer Training Program including involvement in recruiting, hiring and program management each year.\nResponsible for technical support (individual or with appropriate Engineering team personnel) as needed for WM’s Enterprise Risk programs as well as WM’s Wastewater Solutions team.\nResponsible for the P&L of the corporate Engineering Team department including SG&A personnel/expenses as well as Disposal Operations personnel/expenses with a total annual budget of approximately $3.5M+.\nManagement of a 10+ person team including the following responsibilities:Budgeting the annual LF Capital and Final Capping as well as monthly forecasting of LF Capital and Final Capping.\nProcesses associated with WM’s annual LF Workbook program as well as annual Engineering team reviews of LF Workbooks received from WM Area personnel.\nEnvironmental, compliance and property condition due diligence reviews of WM acquisitions.\nWM’s corporate CAD team including airspace policies and procedures, annual airspace report preparation procedures/processes, and annual overfill certification requirements and documentation.\nDevelopment and management of WM’s Reality Capture, DroneDeploy and AutoDesk Construction Cloud (ACC) platforms and processes\nImplementation of GHG emission strategies at an enterprise level including support for WM Scenario Planning Tool, GHG Capital budgeting and tracking, as well as risk and opportunity management associated with reduction of emissions from WM Landfill facilities. \n\nResponsible for the planning, development, implementation and execution of strategies associated with data analytics, process improvement, long term capital planning and the modernization of the current financial planning process.\nResponsible for go forward strategies associated with the development of AUF improvement analytics as well as facility fill sequence plans to continue to implement “Plan the Work and Work the Plan” processes as part of the implement of WM’s Reality Capture platform.\n\nIII. Qualifications\nThe requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job. Must live and work in the US.\nRequired\nBachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline.\n10+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience focused on solid waste and landfills. \nExperience managing large-scale capital projects and engineering teams.\nStrong knowledge of engineering design, construction, asset management, and project execution.\nDemonstrated success partnering with operations and executive leadership teams.\nStrong financial, analytical, and project management skills.\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.\nPreferred\nProfessional Engineer (PE) license.\nMaster's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.\nExperience within environmental services, waste management, recycling, renewable energy, industrial infrastructure, or heavy operations.\nFamiliarity with landfill operations, transfer stations, MRFs, RNG, or environmental compliance requirements.\nIV. Physical Requirements\nListed below are key points regarding physical demands, physical and occupational risks, and the work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.\nRequired to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc.) most of the work day; \nRequired to exert physical effort in handling objects less than 30 pounds rarely; \nRequired to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, burns, exposure to toxic chemicals, etc.) occasionally; \nRequired to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements occasionally; \nNormal setting for this job is in an office. \nPay: The expected base pay range for this position across the U.S. is $152000 - $218000. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific salary offered to a successful candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s relevant experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location\nV. Benefits\nAt WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short-term disability. In addition, we offer a stock purchase plan, company matching on a 401(k), and more. Employees also receive paid vacation, holidays, and personal days. 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