
Senior, Operations Manager
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Job overview
This role oversees the onboarding, development, coaching, mentoring, and performance management of drivers and helpers, who report directly to the position. The manager spends most of the day in the field with frontline employees, building positive relationships and supporting their performance and career goals. The role also investigates incidents, maintains regulatory records, reviews route-operation documentation, and visits customer sites to address safety issues.
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Full job description
I. Job Summary
This role is responsible for Onboarding, Developing, Coaching, Mentoring and Performance Management of all drivers and helpers. Drivers and Helpers will report into this position only; no management jobs will report into the Senior Route Manager. Establish and maintain positive relationships with all frontline employees. Spends the majority of day in the field with frontline employees.
II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
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Onboarding • New Route Managers • 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
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Developing • 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
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Coaching • Identify and address improvement opportunities and collaborate with frontline employees to ensure continued success • Actively practice and seek feedback on coaching conversations.
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Mentoring • Lead by example to ensure safety practices are paramount with each employee • Teaching and developing an understanding of the WM Way
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Performance Management • 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 on a daily basis (e.g., DVIRs, driver time and attendance, open tickets), following up where appropriate.
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Visits customers and customer sites to evaluate and resolve safety issues, seeking service alternatives where appropriate.
III. Qualifications
A. Required Qualifications
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Associate's Degree (accredited) or in lieu of degree,
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High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and two (2) years of relevant work experience.
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2 years of relevant work experience (in addition to education requirement) and
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Must be at least 18 years of age and
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Legally eligible to work in the country where the position is located
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Valid Driver's License Upon Hire
B. Preferred Qualifications
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.
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.
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Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran
How this job compares
Set against the 8,054 open Operations Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Michigan median$70–95K/yr69 salary ranges
- Michigan median$19–29/hr23 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 180 open Operations Manager jobs in Michigan and 8,054 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Michigan
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- 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 (6,141 postings).
- Education
- 1,899 of the 8,054 open Operations Manager jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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