📍 Placerville, CA
🕒 Monday–Friday; start times vary between 3:00 am and 8:00 am based on the needs of the site. Occasional weekend work. Averaging 50 hours per week.
💰 $90,000–$120,000 + 30% cash/equity bonus
Waste Connections (NYSE: WCN) is one of North America’s leading waste services companies—and a place where high-performing leaders thrive. We empower our teams to make decisions, take ownership, and grow their careers alongside a company that values integrity, respect, and results.
If you're a driven, people-focused leader looking to step into broader operational ownership and fast-track your career, this is your opportunity.
Our Culture- Integrity: We do what we say we’ll do
- Respect: We value our people, customers, and communities
- Empowerment: Leaders here are trusted to make decisions and drive results
As an Operations Manager, you’ll lead day-to-day hauling operations while developing your leadership team and driving performance across safety, service, and profitability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and supervise drivers and frontline supervisors in daily collection operations
- Monitor routes and staffing; adjust resources in real time to meet service demands
- Partner with the District Manager on budgeting and P&L performance
- Coach, develop, and hold accountable a team of frontline leaders
- Conduct field inspections and safety audits to ensure compliance and best practices
- Handle and resolve customer escalations with professionalism and urgency
- Oversee environmental, OSHA, and local regulatory compliance
- Set and execute short- and long-term operational goals
- Drive a strong safety culture and continuous improvement mindset
- 5+ years of leadership experience in a fast-paced, people-heavy environment
- Proven ability to manage large, hourly teams and shifting priorities
- Experience with operations, logistics, or field-based teams
- Exposure to budgeting or P&L management
- Strong decision-making, communication, and leadership skills
- Proficient in Excel and business systems
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Willingness to relocate for advancement opportunities
- Hands-on leader who thrives both in the field and in the office
- Strong coach and mentor who develops future leaders
- Comfortable operating in high-accountability, fast-moving environments
- Safety-focused with experience in regulated industries (a plus)
To be considered for any of our current openings you must complete an application at www.careers.wasteconnections.com . Application information and additional instructions can be found once you select your position of interest.
We offer excellent benefits including: medical, dental, vision, flexible spending account, long term & short term disability, life insurance, 401K retirement and unlimited opportunities to "Connect with Your Future".
Waste Connections is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability or protected veteran status.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of leadership experience in a fast-paced, people-heavy environment
- Proven ability to manage large, hourly teams and shifting priorities
- Experience with operations, logistics, or field-based teams
- Exposure to budgeting or P&L management
- Strong decision-making, communication, and leadership skills
- Proficient in Excel and business systems
- Willingness to relocate for advancement opportunities
- Bachelor's degree
- Safety-focused experience in regulated industries
What We Do
Waste Connections, Inc. is an integrated solid waste services company that provides waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly exclusive and secondary markets in the U.S. and Canada. Through its R360 Environmental Solutions subsidiary, the Company is also a leading provider of non-hazardous oilfield waste treatment, recovery and disposal services in several of the most active natural resource producing areas in the United States, including the Permian, Bakken and Eagle Ford Basins. Waste Connections serves more than six million residential, commercial, industrial, and exploration and production customers from a network of operations in 39 states, six provinces and the District of Columbia. The Company also provides intermodal services for the movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest. Our corporate strategy targets secondary and suburban markets that have strong demographic growth trends and where competitive barriers to entry can be developed. We seek to avoid highly competitive, large urban markets and target markets where we can provide either non-integrated or integrated solid waste services under exclusive arrangements, or markets where we can be integrated and attain high market share. We are a leading provider of solid waste services in most of our markets, and approximately 50% of our revenues are derived from market areas where we have franchise or exclusive rights to provide our waste services.
