Landfill Gas Operations Manager
Location: Oakdale, Louisiana
At Waste Connections, the Landfill Gas Operations Manager plays a vital role in managing and optimizing landfill gas collection and control systems (GCCS). This role is critical in ensuring compliance, operational efficiency, and environmental stewardship while supporting a High BTU landfill gas plant. The Landfill Gas Operations Manager will lead a team of technicians and contractors while working closely with engineering and operations teams.
Key Responsibilities:
• Oversee the operation and maintenance of landfill gas collection and control systems (GCCS) to optimize system performance and ensure compliance.
• Supervise and direct technicians and contractors, ensuring efficient work delegation and training.
• Maintain and operate Elkins Envision Gas Analyzer and Landtec GEM Gas Analyzer for accurate gas monitoring.
• Implement and manage the GCCS preventative maintenance plan to ensure system reliability.
• Operate and maintain liquid management system pneumatic or electric-driven pumps, troubleshoot liquid levels, and manage LFG collection wells.
• Perform wellfield valve/vacuum adjustments, interpret data, and make necessary modifications to optimize landfill gas recovery.
• Perform routine maintenance on piping systems using PVC or HDPE materials.
• Troubleshoot GCCS mechanical, electrical, and software systems to identify and resolve issues promptly.
• Assist with the preparation of state and local reports related to landfill gas operations.
• Participate in the development of capital and expense budgets for landfill gas operations.
• Monitor environmental compliance requirements, ensuring all GCCS systems adhere to regulatory standards.
• Provide project management support for GCCS design and construction initiatives.
• Be available for on-call response to GCCS-related malfunction events.
Qualifications:
• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 5 years of landfill gas collection and control system (GCCS) operations experience.
• Strong mechanical and technical aptitude with the ability to troubleshoot and optimize gas system performance.
• Computer proficiency, including Microsoft Excel/Word and the ability to learn specialized company applications.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data from gas analyzers and monitoring devices.
• Willingness to relocate for promotional opportunities within Waste Connections.
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.
