Waste Management Manager

♻️ We're Hiring: Waste Management Manager 📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote) 🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time 💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior 🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully RemoteAbout Us We are an organization committed to responsible and sustainable waste management through waste prevention, resource recovery, recycling, operational efficiency, environmental compliance, and circular-economy principles. Our distributed teams collaborate across Waste Management, Sustainability, ESG, Environmental Management, Operations, Facilities, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, HSE, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Government Relations, Contractors, Waste-Service Providers, and Executive Leadership to minimize waste generation, maximize resource recovery, and ensure safe, compliant, and cost-effective waste management.The Role We are seeking an experienced and strategic Waste Management Manager to lead waste-management strategies, waste reduction programs, recycling and recovery initiatives, contractor and service-provider management, regulatory compliance, waste data and reporting, operational performance, and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will develop and implement integrated waste-management programs that reduce waste generation, improve segregation and recovery, increase recycling and reuse, strengthen compliance, optimize costs, and support broader sustainability and circular-economy objectives.Key Responsibilities - Develop and implement the organization's waste-management strategy, policies, standards, procedures, governance frameworks, and annual action plans. - Establish an integrated waste-management framework covering waste prevention, reduction, segregation, collection, storage, transportation, treatment, recovery, recycling, reuse, and disposal. - Assess current waste-generation patterns, operational processes, facilities, materials, suppliers, and disposal practices to identify improvement opportunities. - Conduct waste audits, waste-stream assessments, material-flow analyses, site assessments, and operational reviews. - Establish waste baselines, targets, performance indicators, and improvement plans across relevant facilities, operations, projects, and business units. - Develop waste-reduction strategies designed to minimize waste at source and improve resource efficiency. - Identify opportunities to eliminate unnecessary materials, reduce packaging, improve material utilization, prevent process waste, and increase product or material reuse. - Develop and implement waste segregation programs covering relevant waste streams and operational requirements. - Establish standards for waste identification, classification, labeling, storage, handling, collection, transportation, treatment, recovery, and disposal. - Develop waste-management procedures for general, recyclable, organic, construction, industrial, electronic, hazardous, and other applicable waste streams. - Ensure appropriate controls are established for hazardous and regulated waste, including safe handling, storage, transportation, treatment, and disposal. - Coordinate with HSE and Environmental teams on hazardous-waste management, environmental risks, worker safety, spill prevention, and emergency response. - Develop recycling and resource-recovery programs to maximize the recovery and productive use of materials. - Identify opportunities to increase recycling, reuse, refurbishment, composting, material recovery, and other forms of resource utilization. - Develop strategies to reduce landfill dependency and increase waste diversion from disposal. - Establish landfill-diversion, recycling, recovery, reuse, and waste-prevention targets. - Develop and manage waste collection, storage, transfer, transportation, treatment, recycling, and disposal processes. - Optimize waste-collection schedules, service routes, container capacity, storage arrangements, and operational processes. - Collaborate with Facilities, Operations, Logistics, and Site Management teams to ensure efficient waste-handling operations. - Manage relationships with waste-management contractors, recyclers, treatment facilities, disposal providers, logistics providers, and other service partners. - Develop waste-service specifications, scopes of work, service-level agreements, performance requirements, KPIs, and contractual requirements. - Support Procurement in tendering, supplier evaluation, contract negotiation, and renewal processes for waste-management services. - Evaluate waste-service providers based on regulatory compliance, technical capability, environmental performance, service quality, safety, traceability, and commercial value. - Monitor contractor performance against contractual requirements, service levels, collection schedules, reporting obligations, environmental standards, and agreed KPIs. - Conduct contractor reviews, performance meetings, site inspections, audits, and corrective-action follow-ups. - Verify waste volumes, service records, collection documentation, treatment records, recycling certificates, disposal records, and invoices. - Establish appropriate chain-of-custody and traceability controls for waste materials from point of generation through final treatment, recovery, or disposal. - Ensure accurate documentation and evidence are maintained for waste transportation, treatment, recycling, recovery, and disposal. - Monitor waste destinations and identify potential risks associated with improper handling, unauthorized disposal, illegal dumping, or inadequate treatment. - Establish and maintain comprehensive waste registers, waste-stream inventories, contractor records, collection schedules, disposal records, recycling records, and compliance documentation. - Monitor waste quantities, composition, destinations, treatment methods, recycling rates, recovery rates, disposal volumes, and associated costs. - Establish waste-management KPIs including total waste generation, waste intensity, recycling rate, recovery rate, landfill diversion, reuse rate, hazardous-waste volumes, contractor performance, cost per tonne, and waste-reduction savings. - Develop waste-management dashboards, performance reports, management summaries, executive presentations, and improvement recommendations. - Analyze waste data to identify trends, inefficiencies, abnormal volumes, operational issues, and opportunities for cost and environmental improvement. - Develop waste-reduction business cases and quantify financial, operational, environmental, and resource-efficiency benefits. - Collaborate with Finance to monitor waste-management budgets, expenditure, service costs, savings, and financial performance. - Identify opportunities to reduce waste-management costs through source reduction, improved segregation, material recovery, optimized collection, supplier improvements, and operational efficiencies. - Develop and implement waste-prevention and resource-efficiency initiatives in collaboration with Operations, Procurement, Product, Design, Engineering, and Supply Chain teams. - Support circular-economy initiatives focused on reuse, repair, refurbishment, recycling, material recovery, and product life extension. - Collaborate with Sustainable Procurement and Responsible Sourcing teams to reduce packaging, improve material efficiency, increase recycled content, and introduce more sustainable products and materials. - Establish supplier requirements relating to packaging reduction, take-back programs, reusable materials, recyclability, waste prevention, and responsible disposal where applicable. - Work with suppliers and business stakeholders to identify upstream opportunities to prevent waste before materials enter operations. - Support sustainable packaging and material-reduction programs across procurement and supply-chain activities. - Collaborate with Logistics teams on reverse logistics, return flows, reusable packaging, collection systems, and recovery programs. - Develop waste-management requirements for new facilities, projects, construction activities, operational changes, and major procurement initiatives. - Support construction and project teams in developing construction and demolition waste-management plans where applicable. - Monitor waste generated during construction, renovation, maintenance, manufacturing, or operational activities and identify opportunities for reuse and recovery. - Establish waste-management requirements for contractors, subcontractors, consultants, and project partners. - Monitor contractor compliance with waste-management plans, environmental requirements, permits, and contractual obligations. - Ensure waste-related activities comply with applicable environmental, health and safety, transportation, treatment, disposal, and regulatory requirements. - Monitor developments in waste-management laws, environmental regulations, recycling requirements, extended producer responsibility, landfill policies, hazardous-waste requirements, and government initiatives. - Maintain required permits, licenses, approvals, records, manifests, reports, and regulatory submissions related to waste management. - Coordinate with Legal and Compliance teams on regulatory interpretation, contractual obligations, environmental liabilities, and compliance risks. - Engage with government agencies, municipalities, environmental authorities, regulators, waste-management organizations, industry associations, and other relevant stakeholders. - Collaborate with Government Relations and Public Policy teams on waste-policy developments, national waste strategies, circular-economy initiatives, and regulatory changes. - Support engagement with local authorities and public-sector organizations on recycling, waste reduction, resource recovery, and environmental initiatives. - Conduct benchmarking and research into waste-management technologies, recycling markets, treatment methods, resource-recovery solutions, and international best practices. - Evaluate emerging technologies for waste sorting, recycling, treatment, recovery, digital tracking, smart collection, waste analytics, and resource recovery. - Identify opportunities to improve waste data quality, digital monitoring, traceability, and automated reporting. - Develop internal waste-management training, awareness programs, operating guidelines, and educational materials. - Train employees, site teams, facilities personnel, contractors, and other relevant stakeholders on waste segregation, handling, reduction, recycling, and compliance requirements. - Promote a culture of waste prevention, resource efficiency, environmental responsibility, and operational discipline. - Coordinate waste-awareness campaigns, recycling initiatives, employee engagement programs, and sustainability activities where appropriate. - Collaborate with Sustainability and ESG teams to align waste-management initiatives with broader environmental and sustainability objectives. - Provide accurate waste data and metrics for ESG disclosures, sustainability reports, annual reports, customer requirements, investor reporting, and regulatory submissions where applicable. - Develop waste-related sustainability reports, performance assessments, impact summaries, and management updates. - Identify and manage waste-related environmental, operational, regulatory, financial, health and safety, supply-chain, and reputational risks. - Develop risk registers and mitigation plans for significant waste-management risks. - Establish emergency response and contingency arrangements for waste incidents, spills, hazardous-material events, contractor failures, service disruptions, or regulatory incidents. - Support environmental audits, regulatory inspections, contractor audits, site assessments, external assurance, and other compliance activities. - Maintain comprehensive records of waste-management activities, waste streams, contractors, permits, manifests, audits, recycling certificates, disposal documentation, KPIs, and improvement initiatives. - Identify opportunities to improve waste prevention, recycling, resource recovery, environmental performance, operational efficiency, compliance, cost effectiveness, and circularity. - Provide strategic advice to senior leadership on waste-management performance, regulatory risks, recycling opportunities, resource recovery, landfill reduction, contractor performance, and long-term waste strategy.Ideal Candidate The successful candidate should have experience in waste management, environmental management, waste reduction, recycling, resource recovery, sustainability, circular economy, environmental compliance, facilities management, HSE, or related fields. Experience working with waste-management companies, municipalities, utilities, construction organizations, manufacturers, retailers, industrial companies, property organizations, logistics providers, or other complex operational environments is highly advantageous. The candidate should demonstrate: - Strong understanding of integrated waste management, waste prevention, waste reduction, segregation, recycling, recovery, treatment, and disposal. - Proven experience developing and implementing waste-management strategies, programs, procedures, or operational frameworks. - Strong understanding of waste-stream classification, waste audits, waste balances, material flows, recycling, recovery, and landfill diversion. - Experience managing waste-management contractors, recyclers, disposal providers, treatment facilities, and other external service providers. - Strong supplier and contractor-management capabilities, including tendering, performance monitoring, audits, KPIs, and corrective-action management. - Experience developing waste-management plans, service specifications, KPIs, dashboards, reports, and performance-improvement programs. - Strong understanding of environmental, health and safety, waste, hazardous-material, transportation, and disposal regulations. - Experience managing hazardous or regulated waste is highly advantageous. - Strong understanding of circular-economy principles, resource efficiency, reuse, repair, refurbishment, recycling, and material recovery. - Experience with construction and demolition waste, industrial waste, commercial waste, or other specialized waste streams is highly advantageous. - Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret waste data, operational performance, contractor records, costs, and environmental impacts. - Experience developing waste-reduction business cases and identifying operational and financial savings. - Strong understanding of waste traceability, chain of custody, manifests, certificates, disposal documentation, and compliance records. - Experience with sustainability, ESG, environmental reporting, or resource-efficiency programs. - Strong project-management capabilities with experience managing multiple sites, contractors, programs, stakeholders, and deadlines. - Strong communication, negotiation, facilitation, stakeholder-management, and influencing skills. - Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. - Familiarity with waste-management, environmental, ERP, facilities-management, contractor-management, data-analysis, or sustainability platforms. - Knowledge of recognized environmental, waste-management, sustainability, circular-economy, or resource-efficiency standards is highly advantageous. - Ability to balance environmental performance with operational requirements, regulatory compliance, service quality, safety, cost, and business continuity. - Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; Arabic is highly advantageous for UAE and broader GCC environmental and waste-management environments. - Ability to work independently in a fully remote and internationally distributed environment. - High level of integrity, accountability, environmental awareness, operational discipline, and professional judgment. - Strong strategic, analytical, operationally focused, contractor-oriented, compliance-conscious, and sustainability-driven mindset. -

• HSE Officer - Waste Management

  Al Khayyat Investments (AKI) · Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates