Director, Wellfield Operations

About the role

At Mobius Renewables, we're helping lead the global energy transition by transforming waste into renewable energy and measurable decarbonization. We're a fast-growing team of expert innovators, engineers, and problem-solvers committed to advancing global sustainability, fueling a circular economy, and creating a cleaner future for all. Join us and help shape the future of renewable energy.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Wellfield Operations & Production Performance
  • Lead portfolio-wide landfill gas collection, wellfield operations, gas recovery, and RNG production support across multiple facilities.
  • Standardize operating procedures, performance expectations, and field execution practices across wellfield operations.
  • Oversee wellfield balancing, tuning, gas quality management, and collection-efficiency improvements.
  • Optimize wellfield performance to increase gas recovery, stabilize gas quality, improve reliability, and reduce production losses.
  • Develop corrective action plans for poor well performance, air intrusion, condensate issues, excessive vacuum, and related deficiencies.
  • Partner with Operations and landfill teams to align wellfield conditions, processing needs, production stability, and financial performance.
• Wellfield Development & Capital Planning
  • Own the long-term wellfield development strategy across the landfill portfolio.
  • Develop annual and multi-year capital plans for wellfield expansion, replacement, and optimization.
  • Prioritize projects based on gas recovery potential, regulatory need, operational risk, capital requirements, and financial return.
  • Review designs, specifications, construction plans, contractor proposals, and system expansion opportunities.
  • Oversee construction and installation activities to meet design, schedule, budget, safety, and operational requirements.
• Compliance & Regulatory Oversight
  • Ensure gas collection systems comply with applicable federal, state, local, permit, and environmental requirements.
  • Oversee monitoring, inspections, recordkeeping, reporting support, and corrective actions for wellfield compliance.
  • Support Environmental and Regulatory teams during inspections, audits, permitting activities, and agency interactions.
  • Identify compliance risks and implement mitigation plans before issues become regulatory or operational problems.
  • Incorporate wellfield modifications and development activities into applicable permits and compliance programs.
• Data, Reporting & Performance Management
  • Build dashboards, standardized reports, benchmarks, and forecasts for performance, recovery, compliance, uptime, and lost production.
  • Analyze operational data, SCADA, GIS, monitoring systems, and field insights to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Leadership & Organizational Development
  • Lead and develop the wellfield organization across the company's landfill and RNG portfolio.
  • Define staffing levels, organizational structure, responsibilities, training standards, and performance expectations.
  • Recruit, train, coach, and develop wellfield managers, supervisors, technicians, and field personnel.
  • Build succession plans and strengthen technical leadership throughout the wellfield organization.
  • Promote safety, accountability, compliance, continuous improvement, and operational excellence across the team.
• Contractor & Vendor Management
  • Manage drilling, construction, environmental, monitoring, and specialty contractors from proposal review through project delivery.
  • Set contractor performance expectations, safety requirements, and project execution standards.
  • Manage contractor relationships in coordination with Procurement, Operations, and executive leadership.
  • Ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and according to design specifications.
• Strategic & Executive Leadership
  • Serve as the primary subject-matter expert for landfill gas wellfield strategy, operations, development, and performance improvement.
  • Advise executive leadership on wellfield strategy, capital investments, staffing, compliance, and production opportunities.
  • Support acquisition due diligence and technical assessments for prospective landfill gas and RNG projects.
  • Evaluate wellfield conditions, development requirements, and operational risks at prospective acquisitions.
  • Scale standardized systems and processes to support portfolio growth and consistent execution.
  • Improve EBITDA through increased gas recovery, reduced operating costs, and improved facility utilization.

Qualifications

• Hold a bachelor's degree in engineering, environmental science, operations, construction management, or a related technical discipline.
• Bring 8+ years of experience in landfill gas, RNG, landfill operations, wellfield management, or environmental compliance.
• Demonstrate direct experience managing landfill gas collection systems and wellfield performance.
• Apply strong technical knowledge of gas collection, wellfield balancing, gas quality, condensate management, and gas utilization.
• Manage well installation, collection-system development, and related field execution activities.
• Lead technical teams, field personnel, contractors, and cross-functional project partners.
• Understand landfill gas, environmental, permitting, monitoring, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Develop operating budgets, capital budgets, forecasts, and project-level business cases.
• Use analytical, financial, project management, and problem-solving skills to support measurable performance improvement.
• Travel regularly across the company's landfill and RNG portfolio to support field execution and operational oversight.