Operations Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Operations Manager

Location: Birch Run, MI

Manager: Director of Landfill Operations

Pay Status: Salary Exempt

Responsible for the safe, clean, compliant, and profitable construction, operation, and maintenance of a landfill gas upgrade facility. The Construction Operations Manager will oversee all aspects of the facility's construction, ensuring adherence to project schedules, budgets, and regulatory requirements. This role will involve managing on-site personnel, support staff, and third-party contractors while coordinating with the operations teams, Project Management/Engineering teams, and EHS team to ensure seamless project execution. This role will transition to an Operations Manager once the facility construction is complete. The facility will operate on a 24/7 basis, producing renewable natural gas, requiring strict quality control and safety measures throughout the construction and operational phases.

The Project Construction & Operations Manager will also be responsible for various duties related to the construction, operation, and maintenance of the facility's mechanical and biological assets. This includes monitoring construction progress, conducting on-site inspections to verify installation quality and compliance, overseeing structural, mechanical, and electrical installations, and ensuring proper system integration. Additional responsibilities include collecting gas samples, preparing and disseminating reports, and addressing any issues that arise during the construction process.

1. Construction Phase

• Maintain open communication with the Director of Landfill Operations, Project Management/Engineering team, and EHS team to ensure project alignment. • Manage construction plans, including schedules, resource allocation, and quality control measures. • Manage and coordinate a multi-disciplinary construction team, assigning tasks and ensuring efficient collaboration. Manage contractor scopes of work and review, mitigate, or present any cost change events. • Review project designs to identify potential construction challenges and ensure compliance with regulatory and safety requirements. • Conduct on-site inspections to verify installation quality, adherence to construction plans, and compliance with safety standards. • Oversee the execution of structural, mechanical, and electrical installations, ensuring proper integration of all systems.
• Prepare detailed construction reports, including progress updates, identified issues, and corrective actions taken.
• Review project schedule and provide weekly updates for incorporation into master project schedule
• Organize and lead weekly construction review meetings with contractors, engineers, and vendors
• Ensure compliance with construction standards and regulations, proactively identifying and addressing quality concerns.
• Monitor construction costs and ensure the project stays within budget constraints while maintaining quality and safety standards.

1. Operational Phase

• Performs all duties in a manner that is safe, compliant, and efficient as well as productive.
• Participate in recruiting, hiring, training, and retaining high quality personnel for the site staff.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and oversight for the site staff.
• Provide oversight for daily maintenance, operations, and repair activities.
• Ensure that the facilities are maintained at industry leading standards of industrial hygiene, grounds keeping, and housekeeping.
• Ensure that all compliance mandates and obligations including safety, environmental, financial, and any/all other permitting requirements are satisfied.
• Manage special projects onsite, refurbishments & renovations, upgrades and major repairs, and process innovations.
• Manage the procurement, inventory, and maintenance of PPE, spare parts, consumables, vehicles, equipment, and tools for the facilities through dedicated asset and inventory management software (CMMS Fiix).
• Manage all aspects of the facilities' operation including production metrics and other KPIs, personnel performance, and compliance mandates.
• Lead the management of change (MOC) process and ensure team involvement.
• Participate in the development of-and manage all the facility budgets, including those for production, operational expenditures, and capital expenditures.
• Operate the full range of mechanical and biological assets at the facility.
• Conducts the full range of maintenance activities required at the assigned facility.
• Perform a variety of processes and quality control related duties including collecting, analyzing, packaging, shipping, documenting, and reporting samples of various gases, liquids, and solids.
• Operate off-road utility vehicles such as skid steers, loaders, forklifts, and UTV's.
• Participate and engage in all required training, both in-person sessions and remote learning modules, in all required fields.
• Coordinate with Project Management and Engineering teams for larger capital expenditure project.
• Adhere to every safety policy and procedure.

Education/Experience is required when indicated, desired otherwise.

• High School diploma, GED, or equivalent is required.
• Bachelor's degree in operations management, engineering, or construction management is preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in a management capacity in operations, production, and/or maintenance at a manufacturing or industrial facility is required.
• Understanding of engineering principles and systems.
• Familiarity with relevant regulations and compliance requirements.

Field work will include work outside and exposed to the weather, high elevations, confined spaces, electrical components, both stationary and rotating equipment, manure and other agricultural wastes, gases and liquids that are compressed/pressurized, toxic, caustic, or acidic, and/or flammable, dust, exposure to high heat/cold weather, high winds, and high noise.

The physical demands described next are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Satisfactory performance of the essential duties of this job will require standing, kneeling, sitting, and walking as well as fine motor skills (especially of the hands) and the extended reach of arms. Climbing, balancing, stooping, crouching, and crawling will be required. Regular senses of smell, hearing, and sight are required. The capacity to occasionally lift up to 75 pounds is required.

Work Environment

The duties of this job will include working both in an office environment and work outdoors in the weather year-round as well as inside industrial spaces with operating machinery. Exposure to high heat and high humidity as well as cold weather and high winds can be expected. This job also includes

potential exposure to high noise, fumes or airborne particles, toxic chemicals, acids and caustic chemicals, flammable and/or poisonous atmospheres, hot surfaces/equipment, cold surfaces/equipment, high vibrations, confined spaces, elevated working surfaces, vehicle traffic, and animal manure.

Salary is paid on a bi-weekly basis and will be consummate with the value and experience the candidate brings to the role. In addition to base salary, compensation includes the option to participate in company sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance plans and in a retirement savings program as well as paid personal time off and holidays.

Sagepoint Energy is an equal opportunity employer. Women, veterans, and minorities are encouraged to apply.