Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mobius Renewables is helping lead the global energy transition by transforming waste into renewable energy and measurable decarbonization. The Director, Wellfield Operations will lead portfolio-wide landfill gas collection, wellfield operations, RNG production support, development, compliance, performance management, and organizational leadership across multiple facilities.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 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
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