Waste Management

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WM, a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.

To enable our business to expand our lead in a market increasingly enhanced by technology, WM is undertaking a substantial technology transformation. We are seeking talented Information Technology professionals to join the WM team who are motivated to help us transform the way we design, build and use technology. With your skills and experience, we look for you to combine your technical expertise with industry best practices in an effort to align information technology solutions with WM business strategy.

I. Job Summary

A people first leader to oversee a team of over 50 skilled software architects, designers, developers, and team leads. Specifically assigned high level responsibility for software architecture and design, development infrastructure, DevOp’s processes and resources allocation. Responsible for processes and activities of direct team members and coordination with other SBS Digital groups, WM Digital groups, and offshore consulting teams. Lead all technical phases in the software design and development process. 

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential duties satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned and may vary by department. 

• Lead the ideation and planning for the upcoming projects including design proposals, sizing, proposed timing, and compare with business value
• Provides expert technical and functional leadership and problem resolution to teams.
• Coordinates with multiple teams and suggests solutions in support of technology needs of the business unit or function served.
• Assigns and reviews work. Allocates appropriate resources to ensure that projects are completed within committed time and budget and are integrated with other software applications.
• Maintains working relationship and coordinates with several teams to integrate project with applications and/or initiatives.
• Coordinates communication about project status to all levels of the organization.
• Prepares and/or provides budget input for ongoing and future expenditures, monitors budget performance, and provides forecasts. Monitors departmental performance against budget.
• Coordinates infrastructure requirements to support the business and new projects including ensuring normal maintenance, System OS currency, security, and coordination with WM Corporate infrastructure teams.
• Coordinate dev ops work across all teams including development environments, test environments, dev tools, code libraries, and deployment methods and tools.
• Managed audit requests, change process, security and access requests and user permissions, particularly in Salesforce.
• A business leader who understands the business objectives and guides technology team to deliver the objectives. 
• Responsible for setting a people first tone in recruiting, interviewing, hiring, career development, performance management, pay determination, team communication and skill set development
• Proven ability to lead successful Software Development groups that deliver the required scope on-time and on-budget
• Continuous Improvement mindset. 

III. Supervisory Responsibilities

The highest level of supervisory skills required in this job is management through one or more managerial levels. This includes:

• Direct supervision of full-time employees including management, team leads and individual contributor positions;
• May have indirect supervision of other full-time management and/or individual contributor positions.

IV. Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.

A. Education and Experience

Education: Bachelor's Degree (accredited), or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four years of relevant work experience.

Experience: Eight years of relevant work experience (in addition to education requirement).

B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements

None required.

C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required

Professional heritage in Software Development. Will require a high level of knowledge in most of the following areas: Software development tools and processes, ERP development, Salesforce.com development, managing large-scale data centers, software analysis design and development, application development projects, Project Management skills, Statistical/metrics analysis, programming/relational database, data warehousing, application testing, project lifecycle methodology, analytical skills, broad IT knowledge, budgeting, accounting and finance, communication skills, executive leadership, strategic planning and simultaneous project management of multiple projects. Management of India-based resources. 

V. Work Environment

Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Normal setting for this job is: office setting and/or landfill/outdoor.

Benefits

At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.

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ABOUT WM

WM (WM.com) is North America’s largest comprehensive waste management environmental solutions provider. Previously known as Waste Management and based in Houston, Texas, WM is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides collection, recycling and disposal services to millions of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. With innovative infrastructure and capabilities in recycling, organics and renewable energy, WM provides environmental solutions to and collaborates with its customers in helping them achieve their sustainability goals. WM has the largest disposal network and collection fleet in North America, is the largest recycler of post-consumer materials and is the leader in beneficial reuse of landfill gas, with a growing network of renewable natural gas plants and the most gas-to-electricity plants in North America. WM’s fleet includes nearly 11,000 natural gas trucks – the largest heavy-duty natural gas truck fleet of its kind in North America – where more than half are fueled by renewable natural gas. To learn more about WM and the company’s sustainability progress and solutions, visit Sustainability.WM.com.

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