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About the Role
The Landfill Maintenance Manager leads all aspects of equipment maintenance for the landfill's mobile fleet, support vehicles, and shop. This role focuses on maximizing equipment availability, minimizing downtime, ensuring safety, supporting compliance, and managing resources cost-effectively.
Responsibilities
- Lead, supervise, coach, and develop maintenance personnel.
- Establish daily and weekly maintenance priorities.
- Manage work order flow, labor allocation, shift coverage, emergency response, and shop productivity.
- Promote a culture of accountability, urgency, teamwork, professionalism, and safety.
- Support hiring, onboarding, training, and performance management for maintenance employees.
- Oversee maintenance and repair of landfill and support equipment.
- Ensure all repairs are completed safely, correctly, and in a timely manner.
- Provide technical direction for diagnostics and repairs.
- Coordinate field repairs and emergency breakdown response.
- Ensure scheduled services, inspections, and maintenance are completed on time.
- Drive PM compliance and use maintenance data to improve reliability.
- Incorporate predictive maintenance tools and practices.
- Partner with operations to ensure operators complete daily inspections and report defects.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED required.
- 5-7 years of heavy equipment maintenance experience, preferably in landfill, waste, construction, quarry, mining, recycling, or similarly severe-duty operations.
- Minimum 3 years of supervisory or management experience leading maintenance teams.
- Strong working knowledge of heavy equipment maintenance practices, diagnostics, and repair planning.
- Experience with diesel engines, hydraulic systems, electrical systems, powertrain systems, brakes, HVAC, welding, and fabrication.
- Experience using CMMS, fleet maintenance software, and diagnostic tools.
- Valid driver's license required.
- Strong organizational, communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, high-accountability operating environment.
Skills
- Heavy equipment maintenance
- Diesel engines
- Hydraulic systems
- Electrical systems
- Powertrain systems
- Brakes
- HVAC
- Welding
- Fabrication
- CMMS
- Fleet maintenance software
- Diagnostic tools
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
- Leadership skills
- Problem-solving skills
Location
- New York
- New Jersey
- Connecticut
- Ohio
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-7 years of heavy equipment maintenance experience
- 3 years of supervisory or management experience
Education Level
- High school diploma or GED
- Technical school or associate degree in diesel, heavy equipment, or industrial maintenance preferred
Salary/Compensations
- USD $115,000.00/Yr. - USD $150,000.00/Yr.
About the Company
- Interstate Waste Services is the most progressive and innovative provider of solid waste and recycling services in the greater New York, New Jersey and Connecticut markets with a rail-served landfill in Ohio.
- IWS is committed to delivering high-quality waste, recycling and environmental services, while prioritizing the safety of our employees, customers and communities.
- We cater to a diverse range of industrial, medical and commercial/residential customers.
- Founded in 1998, IWS has grown over the years through acquisitions, many of which were family-owned businesses that remain a part of our team today.
- We’re proud to combine the resources of a large company with the values and care of a family-run business.
Equal Opportunity
- Interstate Waste Services provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
- This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.