Operations Manager in San Antonio, Texas at Sims Municipal Recycling
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Job Description
About Circular Services
Circular Services is a leading developer and operator of circular economy infrastructure and services and the largest private recycling and organics company in the U.S. with operations across the country. We help businesses and municipalities reduce and divert waste, lowering disposal costs and fueling local supply chains by ensuring materials are recovered, recycled, and reused.
About the Role: The Operations Manager is responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of a high-volume recycling facility, ensuring a safe, efficient, and productive work environment while driving operational excellence. This role provides leadership across maintenance, warehouse, transportation, and administrative teams to achieve safety, quality, service, and financial objectives.
The ideal candidate is a:
- Leader – Hands-on leader who motivates teams, builds accountability, and promotes a strong safety culture.
- Strategic planner – Develops and executes operational plans that deliver measurable results.
- Communicator – able to work with a diverse group of staff that includes production, maintenance, and transportation personnel in both English and Spanish.
- Data Driven - Uses KPIs and metrics to improve productivity, control costs, and drives performance.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- 401k with company match
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
Responsibilities:
- Manage all production shifts as well as any shift supervisors or assistants.
- Responsible for creating a productive, efficient, and safe production facility, including intake of recycling material, material processing, and material shipping.
- Ensure quality recycling production through training, inspection, and quality control.
- Ensure proper grading of all inbound material with a particular focus on downgraded or contaminated loads.
- Ensure all duties are performed on shift, including unloading trailers, loading trailers, processing baskets, processing gaylords, processing bunkers, processing direct feed material, and processing main tip floor material.
- Maintain a clean and organized facility, including grounds outside the warehouse.
- Foster a culture of safety by enforcing company policies, conducting routine safety inspections, leading safety meetings, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Develop, document, implement, and continuously update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to standardize operations, improve efficiency, ensure compliance, and support employee training.
- Ensure all pre-shift operations inspections are completed and any deficiencies are reported to the maintenance staff.
- Manage inbound and outbound traffic through utilization of warehouse staff.
- Notify maintenance of any equipment damage or issues that affect safety or performance.
- Coordinate with transportation to ensure efficient unloading of material hauled by company drivers.
- Manage all hiring responsibilities including review of the employee handbook and completion of all pre-employment paperwork.
- Partner with the General Manager on workforce planning, employee relations, payroll approvals, scheduling, performance improvement plans, and other operational initiatives.
- Manage all injury and accident reporting, including any post-accident follow up in collaboration with the company’s Environmental, Health, and Safety Officer and Human Resources.
- Manage the inputting of all plant related production data on a daily basis through daily production and uptime reports.
- Fill in for the Shift Supervisors or Assistant Managers when needed.
- Operate the inbound and outbound scale as needed.
Minimum Job Qualifications:
- Associates degree and/or 5 plus years of experience in a plant or general management role.
- Experience in recycling, waste management, manufacturing, or similar industry in a plant or facility management role.
- Experience in and strong understanding of inventory and financial management.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- Up to 10%, dependent on travel restrictions of the area and/or Company
Working Conditions and Physical Requirements:
- Regularly use hands and fingers to handle or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach with hands and arms
- Frequently required to sit, walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, squat, kneel, crawl, speak and hear.
- Must frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds
- Vision abilities include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.
EEOC: Circular Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Circular Services is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Circular Services are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Circular Services will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.