Regional Operations Manager

This role is responsible for managing a group of Operations Managers and driving operational excellence across their regio by ensuring a strong focus on EHS, collaborating with key stakeholders across the business, driving a customer-focused work environment and developing high performing teams. We are seeking a Regional Operations Manager to lead and support multiple environmental services facilities across an assigned region.

Tradebe is a group of industrial businesses with the commitment of creating a more sustainable planet and making significant contributions to human wellbeing. In the US, we are leaders focused on recycling and circular economy, managing all different environmental liabilities in a sustainable way.

What will you do? Make an impact!

We are seeking a Regional Operations Manager to lead and support multiple environmental services facilities across an assigned region. This role is responsible for managing a group of Operations Managers and driving operational excellence across their regio by ensuring a strong focus on EHS, collaborating with key stakeholders across the business, driving a customer-focused work environment and developing high performing teams.

Key Job Responsibilities

Regional Operations Leadership

• Provide strategic oversight for multiple facilities within a defined geographic region, driving operational consistency, efficiency, and best practices across all locations.
• Identify operational challenges and implement solutions that improve productivity and service delivery.
• Support the evaluation, development, and launch of potential new sites within the region.

Environmental, Health & Safety Leadership

• Drive a culture where safety, environmental stewardship, and compliance are core values across all facilities, ensuring compliance with EPA, OSHA, DOT, and company standards and procedures.
• Promote proactive risk identification, hazard prevention, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Monitor safety and environmental performance metrics and implement corrective actions when needed.

Financial Management & Business Performance

• Manage regional operating budgets and monitor expenditures
• Maintain responsibility for multi-site P&L performance, overseeing operations exceeding $20 million in annual revenue.
• Track KPIs related to safety, compliance, operations, and profitability.
• Identify opportunities to improve margins, reduce costs, and increase operational effectiveness.
• Support project pricing, proposal development, and scope evaluation activities.

Customer & Business Growth

• Build and maintain strong customer relationships through exceptional service and operational execution and a strong partnership with Sales and Customer Experience teams
• Identify growth opportunities and support strategies that expand regional business operations.

Team Development & Leadership

• Lead a team of Operations Managers, fostering a collaborative, respectful, and performance-driven work environment.
• Conduct performance reviews, provide ongoing coaching and feedback, and recommend and support employee training and professional development programs.
• Lead teams through organizational growth and operational change initiatives.

Do you have what it takes?

• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Environmental Science, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of environmental services experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of management experience leading operational teams.
• Previous labpacking experience strongly preferred.
• Strong logistics and transportation experience.
• Extensive knowledge of EPA, OSHA, and DOT regulations.
• Experience in managing budgets and multi-site P&L responsibilities.
• Experience scoping, pricing, and quoting environmental or technical service projects.
• Ability to analyze operational performance and make data-driven decisions.
• Strong presentation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to travel approximately 50-75% throughout the assigned region.

What's in for you?

Why Tradebe is Right for You

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Student loan repayment assistance
• Generous vacation and sick plans
• Medical (including telehealth), dental and vision
• 401k Retirement match
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
• Health savings accounts (HSA)
• Agency paid, basic life and AD&D insurance
• Career ladders, professional development, and promotion opportunities
• Leadership opportunities
• Great work environment and culture
• And MORE!

Ready to make a difference? Apply now!

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