Resource Recovery Manager
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Role Overview
The organization focuses on sustainable resource management, circular-economy practices, waste reduction, material recovery, and environmentally responsible operations.
The Resource Recovery Manager will lead programs covering waste minimization, material recovery, recycling, reuse, energy recovery, recovery facilities, and sustainable resource management.
The role combines operational, technical, commercial, environmental, and strategic capabilities to improve recovery rates, reduce disposal costs, and increase resource value.
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Role overview
The organization focuses on sustainable resource management, circular-economy practices, waste reduction, material recovery, and environmentally responsible operations.
The Resource Recovery Manager will lead programs covering waste minimization, material recovery, recycling, reuse, energy recovery, recovery facilities, and sustainable resource management.
The role combines operational, technical, commercial, environmental, and strategic capabilities to improve recovery rates, reduce disposal costs, and increase resource value.
Location and work arrangement
- The role is based in the United Arab Emirates and is fully remote.
Recovery operations
- Develop and implement resource recovery strategies aligned with sustainability and operational objectives.
- Manage waste reduction, reuse, recycling, material recovery, and resource optimization programs.
- Evaluate waste streams, material composition, recovery potential, operational constraints, and market opportunities.
- Manage resource recovery facilities, processing operations, transfer activities, sorting systems, and related infrastructure where applicable.
- Coordinate material sorting, segregation, processing, recovery, storage, and outbound logistics.
- Optimize recovery processes to improve material yield, quality, throughput, and operational efficiency.
Commercial and partner management
- Evaluate recovery technologies and support feasibility studies, business cases, technical assessments, and investment proposals.
- Manage recovery-related contractors, operators, technology providers, recyclers, processors, and downstream partners.
- Monitor recovered-material markets, commodity trends, customer requirements, and downstream demand.
- Develop commercial strategies to maximize the value of recovered materials and secondary resources.
- Negotiate and manage agreements for recovered-material sales, recycling services, processing, transportation, and disposal.
Compliance and performance
- Ensure recovered materials meet applicable quality specifications and customer requirements.
- Track material flows from collection through processing, recovery, sale, reuse, or final disposal.
- Develop mass-balance and material-flow systems to measure recovery performance and identify losses.
- Ensure compliance with environmental, waste-management, health and safety, and resource-recovery regulations.
- Identify and mitigate environmental risks associated with waste handling, storage, processing, and transportation.
- Develop emergency-response and incident-management procedures for resource-recovery operations.
Requirements
- Experience leading resource recovery, waste minimization, material recovery, recycling, reuse, energy recovery, or circular-economy programs.
- Ability to combine operational, technical, commercial, environmental, and strategic capabilities to improve recovery outcomes.
- Experience evaluating waste streams, material composition, recovery potential, operational constraints, and market opportunities.
- Knowledge of environmental, waste-management, health and safety, and resource-recovery regulations.
- Experience managing recovery-related contractors, operators, technology providers, recyclers, processors, and downstream partners.
- Experience managing recovery budgets, operating costs, capital requirements, and financial performance.
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