VP Operations - Multi-Site Waste & Environmental Services

Jobtome; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital Waste Services seeks an experienced Vice President of Operations to lead strategic and operational excellence across multiple locations. The role focuses on safety, efficiency, and scalable growth, with accountability for performance and leadership development.

You will partner with executive teams to optimize budgets, drive improvements, and deliver exceptional customer experiences while expanding operations, markets, and services.

Qualifications

• Significant progressive experience leading complex operations.
• Demonstrated success leading teams across multiple locations, markets, or business units.
• Strong experience managing operational budgets and financial performance.
• Proven ability to lead and develop managers and senior operational leaders.
• Demonstrated success improving operational performance, productivity, service quality, and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership across multiple operating locations and markets.
• Establish clear performance expectations and hold operational leaders accountable for results.
• Drive improvements in productivity, efficiency, service reliability, and overall operating performance.
• Identify operational challenges, develop solutions, and ensure effective execution of corrective action plans.
• Promote consistency and operational discipline across locations.
• Support the development and implementation of scalable processes as the organization grows.
• Lead, coach, and develop operational leaders across the organization.
• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Develop succession plans and strengthen the leadership pipeline.
• Partner with Human Resources and Recruiting to support workforce planning, hiring, development, and retention.
• Identify and develop high-potential employees for expanded leadership responsibilities.
• Establish clear expectations and regularly evaluate leadership and operational performance.
• Partner with fleet and maintenance leadership to improve equipment availability, reliability, and utilization.
• Monitor fleet performance and ensure operational and maintenance teams are effectively aligned.
• Support capital planning and investment decisions involving vehicles, equipment, and operational infrastructure.
• Ensure operations consistently meet established service expectations.
• Monitor service performance and lead improvement initiatives when expectations are not being met.
• Partner with Sales and Customer Service leadership to address significant customer and service challenges.
• Ensure operational capacity and resources support customer retention and business growth.
• Partner with executive leadership on long-term operational strategy and organizational growth.
• Support operational planning for new locations, markets, service offerings, and acquisitions.
• Help integrate new operations into the organization's processes, performance expectations, and culture.
• Identify opportunities to standardize best practices and improve scalability.
• Lead major operational initiatives and organizational change efforts.

Skills

Leadership

Multi-site leadership

Financial acumen

Safety leadership

Strategic thinking

Change leadership

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Logistics, Environmental Services, or a related discipline

Job description

Capital Waste Services seeks an experienced Vice President of Operations to lead strategic and operational excellence across multiple locations. The role focuses on safety, efficiency, and scalable growth, with accountability for performance and leadership development.

You will partner with executive teams to optimize budgets, drive improvements, and deliver exceptional customer experiences while expanding operations, markets, and services.