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Operations Manager - Seattle, WA

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At a glance

Compensation
$80–108K/yr
Location
Seattle, WA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Valid Driver's License

Job overview

The Operations Manager oversees onboarding, development, coaching, mentoring, and performance management for drivers and helpers, spending most of the day in the field with frontline employees. The role supports employee success and career goals, reinforces safety practices, investigates incidents, maintains regulatory records, audits route-operation documentation, and visits customer sites to address safety issues.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

CoachingMentoringPerformance ManagementEmployee DevelopmentRoot Cause InvestigationRegulatory DocumentationRoute Operations Auditing

Qualifications

Associate's Degree or EquivalentHigh School Diploma and 2 Years Relevant ExperienceMust Be 18+Valid Driver's LicenseWM Operations Manager Trainee Program

Benefits

Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

I. Job Summary

This role is responsible for Onboarding, Developing, Coaching, Mentoring, and Performance Management of all drivers and helpers. Establish and maintain positive relationships with all front-line employees. Spends the majority of the day in the field with frontline employees.

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Ensuring new frontline employees have tools, instruction, and feedback for successful daily duties

  • Meet with new frontline employees daily to ensure consistent communication and support of onboarding

  • Provide timely and consistent touchpoints with frontline employees.

  • Regular review of best practices to enhance daily performance

  • Focus on understanding and progress of frontline employee career goals

  • Identify and address improvement opportunities and collaborate with frontline employees to ensure continued success

  • Actively practice and seek feedback on coaching conversations.

  • Lead by example to ensure safety practices are paramount with each employee and

  • Teaching and developing an understanding of the WM Way

  • Conducts Root Cause Investigations for all injuries and incidents, ensuring consistent discipline and retraining.

  • Documents and maintains records required by regulatory agencies such as the Department of Transportation.

  • Reviews and audits documentation related to route operations daily (e.g., DVIRs, driver time and attendance, open tickets), following up where appropriate.

  • Visits customers and customer sites to evaluate and resolve safety issues, seeking service alternatives where appropriate.

III. Qualifications

A. Required Qualifications

  • Associate's Degree (accredited) or in lieu of a degree,

  • High School Diploma (accredited) and two (2) years of relevant work experience.

  • Must be at least 18 years of age and

  • Legally eligible to work in the country where the position is located

  • Driver's License Valid Driver's License Upon Hire

B. Preferred Qualifications

  • Successful completion of the WM Operations Manager Trainee program

IV. 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.

Pay : The expected base pay range for this on-site position is $80,168.40 - $108,000 per year. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific salary offered to a successful candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s relevant experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location.

Employees will also receive discretionary paid time off, up to 80 hours of paid sick time per year, and 7 paid holidays throughout the calendar year. The Company provides this paid time off to comply with its obligations to provide paid sick and safe time (“PSST”) under Washington state law and local ordinances. Additionally, the Company has a leave pay policy that provides for up to 4 weeks of paid leave in a rolling 12-month period for qualifying leave.

V. 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 8,334 open Operations Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$80–108K/yr
  • Washington median$91–137K/yr120 salary ranges
  • US median$84–119K/yr4,816 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $94K, is 17% below the Washington median midpoint ($114K) — in the middle half of Operations Manager salary ranges in Washington.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 136 open Operations Manager jobs in Washington and 8,334 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Operations Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (6,288 postings).
Education
1,714 of the 8,334 open Operations Manager jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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