Waste Management New Zealand is New Zealand's leading resource recovery, recycling, and waste management provider. We’re committed to safeguarding our beautiful environment through sustainable management of our valuable resources. Put simply, sustainability is what we do.
Job DescriptionOperations Graduate – Quality & Site Optimisation
WM New Zealand Dairy Flat, Auckland
Kickstart your operations career with New Zealand's leading resource recovery and waste business. This is a genuine development role to the Regional Manager — a broad, hands-on grounding across our landfill and transfer station operations, with a clear path toward an operational or site leadership role over time.
You won't be watching from the sidelines. From day one you'll be working across real projects, improving how our sites run, turning data into decisions, tidying up systems and processes, and helping deliver improvements that make a measurable difference.
What you'll get into
- Supporting operational improvement across multiple sites, using Lean and structured problem-solving
- Building dashboards and reporting that give leaders a clear view of performance
- Helping standardise and simplify systems, processes and the technology behind them
- Supporting improvement projects from ideas through to delivery
- Working alongside site managers and deputising for the Regional Manager on defined tasks
What we're after
- A recent tertiary qualification (operations, engineering, business, environmental or similar)
- Up to two years' operational or related experience, early career is fine, including internships or part-time
- Strong analytical head and solid Microsoft skills
- A genuine appetite to learn, get hands-on, and take on more over time
- Happy to move between sites and get out into the operation
How to apply
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Please note - we do not always work to fixed closing dates and may start considering applications as they are received so we encourage you to apply early.
WM is an EEO employer and promotes drug and alcohol-free workplaces.
You must be in New Zealand and hold a current work visa/residency or NZ citizenship.
Skills Required
- Recent tertiary qualification (operations, engineering, business, environmental or similar)
- Up to two years' operational or related experience, internships or part-time experience accepted
- Strong analytical skills
- Solid Microsoft skills
- Willingness to move between sites and work on-site in operations
- Genuine appetite to learn and take on increasing responsibility
- Must be in New Zealand with a current work visa/residency or NZ citizenship
What We Do
WM New Zealand is New Zealand's leading resource recovery, recycling and waste, and environmental services provider, driven by our focus on safety, sustainability, and service and underpinned by innovation. We provide recycling and resource recovery services, solid waste management, liquid and hazardous waste collection, treatment and disposal. We design and operate state-of-the-art waste management and recycling facilities nationwide, including leading edge sustainable modern landfill and energy parks, material recovery facilities, transfer stations and liquid, hazardous and medical waste processing facilities. We understand that our biggest asset is our people and we’re committed to their safety and wellbeing. We’re a company where every day our people get to make a difference – whether this be through exploring recycling opportunities, looking at new ways to create energy from waste, or delivering a great customer service to building facilities that will last a lifetime. We work with a diverse range of customers, from residential homes and small businesses, councils, through to large multinational commercial and industrial clients that span almost every industry in New Zealand, and we are proud to offer a comprehensive range of services that can be tailored to meet the needs of our customers. Our focus is on the future, the possibilities it holds, and ultimately the protection of it.
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