Operations Submanager

Description

Position Summary: Leads the organization's operations, ensuring efficiency, cost control, safety, and quality with a focus on results and operational excellence. Key Highlights: 1. Lead daily transportation operations and optimize routing and fleet utilization. 2. Control operational costs and manage asset maintenance. 3. Lead teams and transform processes through continuous improvement and technology. If you want to join an environmental-sector company, if you care about what happens to our planet and wish to be part of the solution—not the problem—if you are interested in learning and understanding integrated waste management, this is your opportunity! Join Ecológica! We are seeking our next Operations Submanager, who will be part of the SSOMAC Submanagement team in the Metropolitan Region. The role's mission is to lead and transform the organization's operations, ensuring operational efficiency, cost control, safety, quality, and service continuity through process, fleet, maintenance, and personnel optimization—with a strong focus on national-level results and operational excellence. Key Responsibilities: * **Operational Management:** Lead daily transportation operations, ensuring optimal functioning of assets and associated services. Includes route optimization, fleet utilization, shift and schedule organization, and productivity improvement—aiming for more trips per truck and fewer unproductive kilometers. Also involves defining and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) related to service level, efficiency, costs, and safety. * **Maintenance and Asset Management:** Lead preventive and corrective maintenance of the fleet and equipment, establishing discipline in asset control. Also includes participating in fleet renewal policy definition with the Procurement area, as well as monitoring equipment condition, failure history, insurance, and fixed assets. * **Cost Control and Efficiency:** Control operational costs—including kilometers traveled, fuel consumption, maintenance, and third-party services. Requires analyzing operating margins and proposing improvements, as well as participating in operational and commercial decisions impacting profitability. A key aspect is managing and optimizing third-party usage, which accounts for approximately 40% of operations. * **Safety, Quality, and HSEG:** Ensure operations are conducted safely and aligned with HSEG standards. Includes leading operational compliance with ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001 standards, integrating safety, health, environment, and quality management into operational objectives in coordination with the respective department. * **Team Leadership:** Lead Operations and Maintenance supervisors and managers, restructuring the organization when necessary to achieve efficiency and control. Also involves developing high-performing teams with a strong emphasis on operational discipline and sustainable results. * **Transformation and Continuous Improvement:** Implement process and technological improvements, such as route optimization, fleet decentralization, sensor use, GPS, and geofencing. Includes scaling SMART methodology adoption, leading implementation of COTs sensors, and preparing operations for future systems like Ecomond. Furthermore, seeks to replicate best practices across all regions of the country, ensuring consistency and efficiency. Reference work schedule (Art. 22\): Monday to Thursday, 08:00–17:30 hours; Friday until 16:30\. **This job posting is governed by Law No. 21\.015, which promotes the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the labor market.** * We seek professionals with degrees in Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, or related fields. * Minimum 8 years of experience in similar positions (mandatory). * Experience in cost control and operational effectiveness.