Engineer Landfill II

About the role

Step into a role where engineering meets impact. As an Engineer Landfill II, you’ll work at the intersection of design, construction, environmental stewardship, and regulatory strategy. This is a hybrid field/office role for someone who’s curious, driven, and ready to grow fast. You’ll partner with senior WM engineers, contractors, regulators, and operations teams to shape capital projects, strengthen compliance, and improve how our landfills operate every day. Expect meaningful responsibility, diverse project work, and the chance to influence permitting, construction oversight, budgeting, and public-facing regulatory interactions. If you’re looking for a role that blends technical engineering with real-world problem-solving—and gives you the runway to build a long-term career in environmental and infrastructure engineering—this is it.

Responsibilities

• Develops an understanding of all permits governing the construction and operation of landfill disposal sites and other operations, such as waste transfer stations, collection operations, and material recovery facilities, in an assigned area.
• Procures and directs professional consulting firms engaged in preparing regulatory documents, such as permit applications, for adherence to regulatory requirements and consistency with site conditions and operations. Reviews documents with an eye toward improving efficiencies in design, constructability, quality, compliance, safety, and cost savings. Works with senior engineers, operations, and consultants to update documents and permits to capture identified efficiencies.
• Assists and works alongside senior-level WM engineers on construction projects. Takes responsibility for tasks as assigned by the lead WM engineer, such as contract administration, materials order and delivery, contractor scheduling, CQA oversight, etc.
• Works with operation teams to ensure compliance with permits and to prevent or resolve operational issues.
• Assists in the preparation and/or review of engineering, monitoring, and environmental reports.
• Assists in environmental reviews and audits.
• Works with landfill managers to formulate short-term and long-term goals and action plans in alignment with WM objectives.
• Identifies and estimates the cost of site capital needs and follows through with inclusion in annual budget exercises.
• Interacts with state and local agencies to foster positive working relationships and to ensure efficient and effective compliance with regulations.
• Reviews and understands WM engineering and technical directives and Best Management Practices and implements them at sites in your assigned area.
• Provides technical support to operations, sales staff, landfill managers, and environmental staff, such as landfill gas technicians and other functional areas.
• Participates in continuing education opportunities to maintain and enhance personal skill sets and continually looks for opportunities to integrate new knowledge, technologies, and innovations into WM operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Engineering or a similar area of study.
• 3 years of previous experience in an engineering, technical, or environmental field (in addition to education requirement).

Physical Requirements

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

• Repetitive motions
• Eye/Hand/Foot coordination
• Sitting
• Talking
• Hearing

This job primarily operates in a professional office environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, copy machines, etc.

Benefits

At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package that includes:

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short-term disability
• Stock purchase plan
• Company matching on a 401(k)
• Paid vacation, holidays, and personal days

Please note that benefits may vary by site.