Director, Wellfield Operations
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Director leading landfill gas collection, wellfield development, compliance, and RNG production performance. Driving recovery, reliability, capital planning, and EBITDA improvement at Mobius Renewables.
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
- 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
- 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
- Promote safety, accountability, compliance, continuous improvement, and operational excellence
- 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
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, environmental science, operations, construction management, or a related technical discipline
- 8+ years of experience in landfill gas, RNG, landfill operations, wellfield management, or environmental compliance
- Direct experience managing landfill gas collection systems and wellfield performance
- Strong technical knowledge of gas collection, wellfield balancing, gas quality, condensate management, and gas utilization
- Experience managing well installation, collection-system development, and related field execution activities
- Experience leading technical teams, field personnel, contractors, and cross-functional project partners
- Understanding of landfill gas, environmental, permitting, monitoring, and regulatory compliance requirements
- Experience developing operating budgets, capital budgets, forecasts, and project-level business cases
- Analytical, financial, project management, and problem-solving skills
- Willingness and ability to travel regularly across the company’s landfill and RNG portfolio
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