About the Role
The Senior Director – Waste Management will lead the strategy, infrastructure, and service framework supporting the company as it opens and grows. This position provides an opportunity to establish waste management services that support resource recovery, operational resilience, and long-term value within a city that combines entertainment, sports, and culture.
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What You’ll Lead
- Strategy and Operating Model: Develop and deliver the city-wide waste strategy, policies, and implementation roadmap, defining responsibilities, service interfaces, and governance across stakeholders.
- Asset Ownership and Lifecycle Planning: Set requirements for waste infrastructure, facilities, fleet, and equipment, overseeing maintenance standards, asset condition, renewal priorities, and whole-life value.
- Investment and Commercial Governance: Lead capital and operating budgets, demand forecasts, and business cases; shape procurement strategies and govern major contracts and operator performance.
- Capacity and Operational Readiness: Align infrastructure and service capacity with city growth, reviewing designs and assuring commissioning, handover, and asset acceptance readiness.
- Waste Prevention and Resource Recovery: Develop programs for reuse, segregation, recycling, and recovery, working with sustainability teams and asset operators to reduce contamination and identify viable material outlets.
- Compliance and Resilience: Lead environmental and safety assurance, risk management, waste traceability, and business continuity, with clear arrangements for specialist waste interfaces.
- Performance and Insight: Establish verified reporting on waste volumes, recovery, disposal, service quality, asset availability, and unit costs to guide improvement and investment.
- Functional Leadership: Build and develop the waste management function, establishing the structure, capabilities, and accountability needed to deliver the approved operating model.
What You’ll Bring
- A bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Science, Waste Management, or a related discipline.
- At least 15 years of relevant experience in waste management, environmental infrastructure, or integrated municipal services, including 7 years in senior leadership roles with strategic, asset, and commercial accountability.
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing city-scale or large mixed-use waste strategies and owning or governing waste infrastructure portfolios.
- A strong track record overseeing outsourced operators and major contracts, managing budgets and lifecycle investment, and supporting design review, commissioning, and operational mobilization.
- Experience spanning segregation, collection logistics, transfer, recycling and recovery, regulatory interfaces, and phased developments.
- Strong capabilities in strategic planning, asset lifecycle management, demand and capacity modeling, procurement, commercial governance, and data-led performance management.
- Executive communication, negotiation, and cross-functional leadership skills.
