**Variable Shifts Available**

Interstate Waste Services is the most progressive and innovative provider of solid waste and recycling services in the country! We primarily service Northern New Jersey, Southern New York State, New York City, with a landfill located in Ohio, where we also own and operate a state-of-the-art rail-served landfill. We cater to a diverse range of residential, industrial and commercial customers. Our mission has always been to provide our customers with the highest quality waste, recycling and environmental services, while keeping focus on employee, customer and environmental safety. 

What makes our company culture unique is we have mastered the ability to balance the standards of a large corporate company while maintaining our small business family style culture. 

Production Lead is responsible for supervising the post-collections activities in one or more lines of business (operations, maintenance, administration, and EHS). The Production Lead oversees laborers, operators, maintenance, and administrative staff and works with the Site Manager to implement tactical initiatives to drive functional excellence and budget achievement. The Production Lead ensures adherence to all accident prevention programs and leads operations to ensure compliance with all safety, environmental, operating, regulatory, accounting, ethics and other standards. Responsibilities include the execution and delivery of Safety, Customer Experience, and Efficiency while supporting a culture of employee engagement.

Safety

• Understand and provide leadership to achieve and communicate about safety goals and objectives.
• Work to remove unsafe conditions or situations from drivers' routes.
• Work with the Operations Manager to identify and eliminate any unsafe conditions on new or existing customers
• Partner with the maintenance department to ensure all equipment remains in working order and in compliance with safety standards.
• Oversee effective safety and accident prevention programs to ensure all reasonable actions are taken to prevent accidents and injuries; ensure a safe and productive work environment for all employees; implement and maintain an effective safety program.
• Engage assigned employees in active participation to instill a culture of safety by demonstration of a personal commitment to safe operations and active personal outreach to operational employees.

Efficiency

• Provide service to all customers that meets or exceeds customer expectations with regard to the entire customer experience.
• Understand facility operations goals and meet or exceed those goals
• Resolve unusual events, equipment breakdowns and schedule changes with timely communications to all stakeholders.
• Interact with employees to solve and rectify any issues and improve the overall operational success off the facility.
• Serve as a positive representative of the Company to drive customer satisfaction and loyalty to the Company.

Employee Engagement

• Create a collaborative, communicative team environment and drive employee engagement with the Company.
• Build and develop talent on the team, understand employees' career goals and provide coaching to get employees ready for advancement with the Company.
• Perform other job-related duties as needed or assigned.

• Experience from the transfer station or material recovery industries strongly preferred
• Driver’s license required
• Extensive knowledge of OSHA and DOT safety requirements
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
• Excellent communication and leadership skills

This job description is intended to be an accurate representation of the general functions of the job, rather than exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities, or experience. Other duties may be assigned, requested, or required. Aspects of the job may be altered without notice.

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.