District Manager

District Manager - Atlantic Canada
**Location**: Atlantic District, preferably Dartmouth
**Position Type**: Full-time - Permanent
**Reporting**: General Manager - Atlantic Canada
**Start Date**: To be determined
**About Miller Waste Systems**:
Miller Waste Systems Inc. has been in operation since 1961. Miller is a leader in waste management and diversion, providing governments and industries with a wide range of services in the province of Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Manitoba. Miller has over 50 years’ experience in the waste management sector, and currently operates out of more than 30 locations.
Our people are our number one asset and together we are working towards achieving our vision to be the most trusted, most operationally excellent integrated waste provider in North America.
Join us and become a part of the Miller family/team and be a part of something great, where you can make a difference.
**Position Summary**:
The District Manager oversees all aspects of trucking and facilities operation, ensuring efficient processes and providing solid leadership to the team. The role focuses heavily on ensuring employee safety, optimizing productivity and efficiency, effectively managing resources, and finding opportunities for continuous improvement across all operations in Atlantic Canada.
This role requires you to have very strong interpersonal and communication skills as well as the ability to lead a successful and effective team. Additionally, the role requires an individual that is capable of working with cross-functional group of professionals, bringing people together to achieve common goals and meet the strategic objectives for the district.

**Responsibilities**:

- Educate managers of the need to follow safe work practices and ensure there is culture of safety within the operation above all else.
- Work to develop consistency in all aspects of how the operations are managed in each site within Atlantic Canada. Best practices must be identified, codified into workflows, duplicated across sites, and then enforced and measured.
- Manage, through strong and effective leadership, operations managers, route supervisors, and other employees that you are responsible for.
- Lead the operations team in coordinating day-to-day business functions to improve efficiency and customer service.
- Provide strong leadership to your team of managers, utilizing performance management tools to ensure goals are met and improved upon.
- Conduct regular check-in meetings with all managers and supervisors under your leadership, providing them opportunities to share concerns, successes, and learn from you.
- Foster a culture of accountability within your team by developing goals and empowering people to reach them. This will include ongoing tracking of productivity, developing and tracking effective KPIs and goals, and completing various daily/weekly/monthly reports.
- Ensure that your team of managers is maintaining accurate employee files, administering coaching and progressive discipline, in coordination with the PCBP, and completing regular performance management check-ins with employees.
- Be a main point of contact for key customers and department managers within the company.
- Help the General Manager to develop annual budgets and work throughout the year to ensure they are met and measured against.
- You will create and maintain a culture of continuous improvement within your team of managers, working closely with them to ensure they understand what is expected, how to reach the appropriate goals, and provide the feedback required to enhance their growth.
- Work with other departments, including but not limited to maintenance & equipment, sales, accounting, and people & culture to build a team environment, contributing to overall operational success.
- Working with the District Controller, review monthly expenditures and ensure the operation is meeting corporate targets and provide the appropriate feedback for your managers.
- Using knowledge of each operation, work with the Regional Sales Manager to strategically gain commercial & industrial customers in strategic areas through offering innovative solutions and leveraging pricing advantages through route density.
- Work to understand each residential collection contract in the district to enable the offering of feedback on efficiency and better routing opportunities.
- Learn about the major customers in each location and work with the sales group to develop relationships with the key players at those customers, ensuring strong relationships and account retention.
- Manage labour costs with the management at each operation and work with the equipment team to help reduce equipment downtime.
- As required, be willing to travel to other locations within the company to facilitate training, standardization, and teamwork on a frequent basis.

**Requirements**:

- Must have strong interpersonal skills to manage, mentor, and guide personnel. Self-motivation and o