Supervisor of Operations, Compost & Wood Processing - CDL

Job Overview: Provide direction and leadership to team while operating and maintaining heavy, motorized equipment used for processing/composting food and yard waste, off site wood grinding and colored mulch operations in a safe and efficient manner.

Create Lasting Change: The Impact You’ll Have:

• Provides direction and leadership to team while performing composting, wood grinding, and colored mulch operations. Assists in planning, coordinating daily services and operations of the Organics Recycling Facility to include weighing, mixing, moving and manipulating organic materials. Coordinates with the Manager, Compost Operations and Compliance Technician to ensure that composting site safety procedures are being followed.
• Provides direction and leadership operating multiple pieces of heavy equipment and ensures a safe operating environment.
• Operate a grinder to reduce products to optimal particle size for composting. Monitor, record, and adjust temperature and oxygen levels to achieve optimal composting conditions. Operate a compost turner to mix, aerate, and water materials for optimal composting conditions within windrows. Operate screener to produce a uniform and marketable finished product.
• Performs and oversees repairs and preventative maintenance on processing equipment. Inspects and ensures safety devices are in working order on heavy equipment. Orders and inventories repair and preventative maintenance parts for equipment. Obtains and provides repair costs to management.
• Interviews, selects, hires, and promotes employees, including training, development, performance management, and supervisory actions as needed.
• Leads, mentors, coaches, provides guidance support and motivation to their staff.
  
  
  

Job Requirements:

• High school graduate with math proficiency, along with course from the Midwestern Compost School or an equivalent class that includes best management practices for compost site operations.
• 4 years of experience in solid waste management, composting, or related field.
• 1 years of indirect or direct people leadership experience (may include informal leadership)
• Valid Class A CDL required with a good driving record
• Flexibility and willingness to accommodate work schedule variations to meet product demands.
• Experience both operating and overseeing operation of all equipment relevant to the operation of an organics recycling facility including front-end loaders, skid steers, track loaders, grinders, mixers, screeners, tractors, and trucks and mulch coloring equipment.
• Experience directing and performing routine maintenance on heavy equipment including daily maintenance, walk-around check, etc. Mechanical background preferred but not required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft software products.
• Ability to speak and read English.
• Good customer relation skills and ability to follow directions in a team environment.
• This position is subject to testing for drugs (THC included) & alcohol in accordance with the Federal Department of Transportation Regulations as well as the SMSC’s Drug / THC and Alcohol Policy.
  
  
  

Outstanding Benefits & Awesome Perks: At the SMSC, we are invested in our team members, as demonstrated by the competitive benefits we offer. Team Members may be eligible for benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, and a generous PTO package, which includes outreach hours for volunteer work through our #SMSCgives outreach program. Plus, take advantage of perks like discounts on childcare, fuel bus passes and fitness membership, free uniforms and free uniform cleaning, and tuition reimbursement.

Who We Are: The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community contributes both time and financial resources across the region, state, and country. The SMSC has donated more than $400 million to organizations and causes, provided $500 million in economic development loans to other tribes, and contributed millions more to support regional governments and infrastructure. The SMSC's Native Green initiative annually diverts hundreds of tons of waste from landfills, has implemented compostable containers throughout our properties, and restored hundreds of acres of prairie land. Team members are eligible to participate in SMSC Gives, a community outreach initiative that organizes various opportunities in the local community. To empower its team members to take part in the Dakota tradition of giving, the SMSC provides paid hours to team members to volunteer at events. Learn more at shakopeedakota.org