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Department Manager Hazardous Waste (Helsingborg)

Ohlssons was founded in 1998 in Landskrona and today has approximately 850 employees, operations in around 50 municipalities across Sweden, and a turnover of over 1.5 billion SEK. The company assists municipalities and businesses with services within waste management, sludge and water/sewage, recycling, transport, and contracting. The group also includes Puls – Planerad Underhållsservice AB, Soreto Services AB, Exellent Syd AB, ÖMAB, and Tintorella Fastigheter AB.

About the Role

As the Department Manager for Hazardous Waste, you are responsible for a specialized reception and treatment facility for hazardous waste in both liquid and solid forms. The role combines operational leadership with chemical and technical expertise, where you ensure that materials are identified, classified, treated, and further handled in a safe and correct manner. You have overall responsibility for operations, personnel, working environment, and economy, leading a team of five employees, including an operations manager. Simultaneously, you ensure that the operations are conducted in accordance with current legislation, permits, and authority requirements.

A key part of the role is to understand and assess incoming materials and ensure that the correct treatment, purification, and further handling take place based on the material's properties and classification. You also work on developing the company's processes and ensuring sustainable and efficient solutions for the further handling and disposal of incoming and treated materials.

As part of the role, you will be trained as both a Safety Advisor for the Transport of Dangerous Goods and a Supervisor for Flammable Substances. Ohlssons covers the training required for the assignment, and in these functions, you will become a key support for the operations, other companies within the group, and external customers in matters concerning the classification, storage, handling, transport, and regulatory compliance of hazardous waste.

Main Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for operations, personnel, working environment, and economy.
• Ensure compliance with environmental legislation, permits, and authority requirements.
• Responsible for the facility's results and follow-up of goals within safety, environment, quality, and productivity.
• Develop and optimize the company's processes for the reception, treatment, and further handling of hazardous waste.
• Act as a specialist and advisor to customers in matters concerning hazardous waste and dangerous goods.
• Ensure safe and efficient handling of material flows from reception to final treatment or disposal.
• Prepare declarations, classifications, and transport assessments.

Profile

We believe you are a person who thrives with responsibility and values order, quality, and structure in your work. At the same time, you are flexible and have the ability to find solutions when conditions change. With a secure and non-hierarchical approach, you build trust with employees, customers, and partners.

Experience and Qualifications

• The position requires post-secondary education, preferably in chemistry, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in leadership with both personnel and result responsibility.
• Experience from hazardous waste handling, chemical management, process industry, or other permit-regulated operations.
• Good understanding of legislation and authority requirements in the field.
• Good proficiency in Swedish, both spoken and written.
• Valid driver's license (Category B).

Merits:

• Experience in classification and transport assessment of hazardous waste.
• Experience with dangerous goods and ADR matters.
• Certification as a safety advisor.

The position is located at our facility in Helsingborg, situated within the NSR area.

We Offer

With us, you will have an important role in a socially vital operation together with engaged colleagues. You are offered good employment conditions according to collective agreements as well as benefits such as a fitness allowance and health insurance.

Application

We warmly welcome your application! We recommend that you send your application today as interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis. If you have questions regarding the position, you are welcome to contact Mattias Bolin at [email protected] or 010 45 00 200.

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