Environmental Project Manager - Orion, MI
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Job overview
The Environmental Project Manager plans and directs onsite activities at client locations involving hazardous and non-hazardous waste services. The role manages onsite personnel, coordinates with clients and vendors on service issues and contracts, and maintains safety and environmental standards. It also oversees waste transportation logistics, regulatory compliance, financial obligations, and opportunities to reduce costs.
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Why Work for WM?
Stability. Growth. People-First Culture (https://www.wm.com/us/en/inside-wm/who-we-are) .
About the Environmental Project Manager Role
Plans and directs all onsite activities at client location in relation to the storage, transportation and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes and other related services following federal, state & local regulations. Manages and plans activities of onsite personnel. Serves as liaison between client and vendors in relation to service issues and contract management. Maintains pre-established standards for safety and environmental issues.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
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Coordinate logistics for transportation of hazardous and non-hazardous waste from client site including profiling, scheduling, manifesting and physically loading bulk and drum loads.
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Consult with client to identify, design and implement cost saving opportunities and proposals.
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Ensure compliance with client and government regulations by performing necessary inspections and reporting. Resolve all issues in a timely manner.
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Administer client and vendor financial obligations including invoicing, reporting and contracts.
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Promote culture of safety by ensuring site personnel are properly trained to perform assigned duties and comply with safety, environmental, federal, state and local regulations.
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May occasionally be required to perform labor-intensive activities (e.g., drum collection and bulking).
Qualifications
A. Required Qualifications
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Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Environmental Sciences, Accounting, Business or related field, or in lieu of degree
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High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and 4 years of relevant work experience.
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2 years of relevant work experience (in addition to the education requirement)
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HAZWOPER Certification upon hire
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RCRA and DOT regulatory compliance experience
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OSHA 24-Hour Certification upon hire
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Pre-assignment and/or pre-hire customer-specific drug and/or alcohol testing may be required by certain customer-contract requirements. Such testing may include urinalysis, oral swab, drug hair follicle testing and/or alcohol testing upon hire
B. Preferred Qualifications
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Project management.
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Profit and loss (budgeting)
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Customer service and vendor management.
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An entrepreneurial skill set is highly valued with the ability to creatively achieve stretch goals and provide new services and value to existing customers.
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Supervisory and team building skills.
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Creative problem solving and innovative thinker.
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Effective and concise communication.
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Adept decision making.
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Strategic thinking.
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Strong leadership and relationship building skills.
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Strong business acumen and financial knowledge.
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Self-motivated and directed with a keen sense of urgency to deliver result
Physical Requirements
Listed below are key points regarding physical demands, physical and occupational risks, and the work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Combination: This job operates in a mix between an office environment and plant/field 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. In addition, we offer a stock purchase plan, company matching on a 401(k), and more. Employees also receive paid vacation, holidays, and personal days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.
If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click Apply.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran
How this job compares
Set against the 14,952 open Project Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Michigan median$99–167K/yr135 salary ranges
- US median$27–40/hr646 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 229 open Project Management jobs in Michigan and 14,952 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Project Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 12,257 postings).
- Education
- 5,827 of the 14,952 open Project Management jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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