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solid-waste-disposal manager
A professional who directs and coordinates, through subordinate supervisory personnel, landfill site activities concerned with solid-waste disposal for governmental sanitation agency or private refuse-disposal company. Responsibilities include:
- Inspects site and confers with supervisory personnel to determine procedures and methods for utilizing site area for disposal activities and to remain in compliance with specifications of environmental impact study.
- Plans sequences of waste disposal operations to obtain optimum utilization of site basing plans on such factors as past and predicted solid-waste disposal and land reclamation requirements, quantity of waste handled daily, and space in site required for waste handled.
- Ensures that waste disposal activities are in compliance with public health insect and rodent control laws and regulations.
- Prepares records and reports on disposal activities, such as quantities of waste handled, receipts from operations, and actions taken to comply with public health and environmental regulations.
- May prepare operational budget for landfill waste disposal activities and submit budget to agency management.
- May examine loads of waste for recyclable material and direct sorting, handling, and recycling operations.
- May supervise workers engaged in waste disposal operations.
- May operate heavy equipment to compact and bury waste in private landfill disposal dump.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s): landfill_operations_superintendent
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- Category: Occupational titles
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