Come join the largest independent Medical Waste Service Provider in the country for an exciting leadership opportunity! We provide essential services to healthcare facilities nationwide and operate within one of the most stable and highly regulated industries in the country. Join a growing organization that offers long-term career development across 35+ locations.
As we continue to grow, we are expanding our hazardous waste business and are seeking an experienced operational leader to help build the future of our national hazardous waste platform. As the Director, Hazardous Waste Operations, you will lead and grow hazardous waste operations across multiple markets nationwide, supporting Large Quantity Generator (LQG) healthcare systems, on-site hospital hazardous waste programs, and regional route-based services for Small Quantity Generators (SQGs). This role is responsible for developing scalable operating strategies, driving operational performance, ensuring regulatory compliance, improving profitability, and building high-performing teams that deliver safe, efficient, and compliant hazardous waste services. You will partner closely with Operations, Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S), Transportation, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Finance leadership to support business growth, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence across the hazardous waste platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead all hazardous waste operations across the organization, including on-site hospital programs, regional route-based services, third-party transportation coordination, and hazardous waste disposal partnerships.
- Develop and implement scalable national operating models, standardized operating procedures, staffing strategies, performance metrics, and best practices that support growth, consistency, and service excellence.
- Develop operating plans and resource strategies that support business growth while maintaining operational efficiency, service quality, and regulatory compliance.
- Drive operational performance by improving safety, service execution, labor productivity, route efficiency, customer retention, vendor performance, operating margin, and overall profitability.
- Lead hazardous waste service delivery within healthcare systems while ensuring operational readiness for new customer implementations, expansions, and operational transitions.
- Ensure proper staffing, training, scheduling, and performance management of field operations teams supporting healthcare customers.
- Partner with Transportation and Supply Chain leadership to optimize routing strategies, fleet utilization, scheduling efficiency, equipment utilization, and overall operational effectiveness.
- Identify opportunities to improve operational leverage through process improvements, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Manage transportation, treatment, recycling, and disposal vendor relationships while supporting enterprise vendor negotiations, strategic vendor consolidation initiatives, and accountability for service levels, compliance, responsiveness, and pricing.
- Partner closely with Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) leadership to ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local hazardous waste regulations.
- Support regulatory inspections, audits, corrective actions, incident investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen safety, compliance, and operational excellence.
- Promote a strong safety culture focused on accountability, operational discipline, and risk reduction.
- Build, develop, and lead a high-performing hazardous waste operations organization by establishing clear goals, accountability, and performance expectations.
- Recruit, coach, develop, and retain operational leaders while supporting succession planning and organizational scalability.
- Serve as the company's operational subject matter expert for hazardous waste operations and provide strategic leadership that supports long-term business growth and operational excellence.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
