Operations Manager, Waste-to-Energy Plant in Ruhleben (m/f/d)
Making Berlin better, greener, and cleaner together—that is our mission as Germany’s largest municipal waste management company. To achieve this, we are looking for dedicated individuals.
Turning waste into energy: At our waste-to-energy plant, we make a significant contribution to climate protection and the security of energy supply and waste management. The Ruhleben waste-to-energy plant ensures safe and continuous energy and waste recovery in Berlin. When you join us, you become part of a dedicated team that combines technology and sustainability. Together, we’re creating a greener, more livable city. Join us and bring your energy to the table!
Your responsibilities
- Ensuring Plant Operations
- You are responsible for the safe, trouble-free, and legally compliant operation of the waste-to-energy plant.
- Leading and Developing Employees
- You will lead a team of operations engineers, shift supervisors, and plant operators, support their professional development, and ensure sustainable workforce development.
- Monitoring emissions and environmental regulations
- You ensure compliance with all legal requirements (e.g., under the 17th Federal Immission Control Ordinance) and work closely with regulatory authorities.
- Optimizing plant operations
- You will analyze operational data and develop measures to increase efficiency, optimize availability, and reduce emissions, and you will consistently monitor their implementation.
- Coordinating maintenance and overhauls
- You will manage and communicate maintenance measures in close coordination with the maintenance team to ensure plant availability.
- Fault management and root cause analysis
- You will initiate measures in the event of operational disruptions, analyze causes, and develop sustainable solutions to prevent recurrence.
- Ensuring occupational safety and health protection
- You consistently implement occupational safety measures and further develop the safety culture within the company.
- Interface with Material Flow Management / Delivery
- You coordinate collaboration with material flow management and waste logistics. In doing so, you ensure consistent plant feeding, compliance with quality requirements (e.g., calorific value), and safe handling of bunker management.
- Documentation and Reporting
- You are responsible for operational reports, key performance indicator analyses, and reports to internal and external parties.
Your qualifications
- A completed university degree (bachelor’s or master’s) in engineering with a specialization in process engineering or mechanical engineering, or proof of recognition as an “other employee”
- Extensive professional experience in managing the operations of power plant facilities
- Strong business acumen to independently perform cost and profitability calculations as well as utility analyses
- Quick comprehension and analytical thinking, perseverance, strict goal orientation, time management, assertiveness, and the ability to motivate others
- Ability to achieve accepted and viable solutions in the face of conflicting interests through target-group-oriented, trust-building communication
- Practical project management and IT skills (e.g., MS Office, SAP)
Benefits
- Compensation: We pay according to the TVöD VKA collective bargaining agreement, which includes regular salary adjustments, an annual bonus, and an additional company pension plan (VBL). In pay grade 15, this amounts to a total of at least €74,800–€105,400 per year, depending on professional experience.
- Work-Life Balance: We have a 39-hour workweek with working hours regulated by collective bargaining agreements and at least 30 days of vacation.
- Training and Development: We offer you over 350 different training and development opportunities.
- Help with finding housing: To make your start in your new position easier, we actively support you in finding suitable housing.
- Security: As a crisis-proof employer, we offer you a permanent, meaningful job.
- Mobility: We offer bicycle leasing and subsidize the BVG Job Ticket or Deutschlandticket.
- You can find all our benefits at bsr.de/benefits.
Contact
Berlin City Cleaning (BSR)
Online application form at www.bsr.de
Contact: Recruitment
Email: Bewerbung@BSR.de
Phone: +49 30 7592-1000