Cybersecurity Engineering Manager

Waste Management (WM), a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.

To enable our business to expand our lead in a market increasingly enhanced by technology, Waste Management is undertaking a substantial technology transformation. We are seeking talented Information Technology professionals to join the Waste Management team who are motivated to help us transform the way we design, build and use technology. With your skills and experience, we look for you to combine your technical expertise with industry best practices in an effort to align information technology solutions with Waste Management business strategy.

I. Job Summary
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Cybersecurity Engineering Manager to lead and evolve our enterprise-wide security engineering function across a diverse technology landscape that includes traditional data centers, operational technology/SCADA, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS solutions. This role is responsible for the architecture, deployment, and continuous improvement of security technologies that protect our infrastructure, data, and users. Success in this role requires a forward-thinking leader of people—optimizing existing tools and associated procedures while actively evaluating emerging technologies and the evolving vendor landscape to identify and close gaps as the threat landscape continues to evolve.

You will drive the integration and consistent application of controls across office and field environments, ensuring all solutions are both operationally sound and strategically aligned. Equally important, you will focus on team and resource development—ensuring the organization is positioned to meet both current and future security challenges through scalable engineering practices and a strong talent pipeline. The ideal candidate will have enjoy leading and building teams with a strong understanding of the threat landscape as it impacts our unique business value streams, and will deliver security controls that are tightly aligned with those risks. 

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities 
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential duties satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned and may vary by department. 

• Lead and mentor a team of cybersecurity engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous growth.
• Champion the development of team capabilities by aligning skills, resources, and responsibilities to address evolving threats and meet dynamic business needs.
• Develop an understanding the organizations business value streams and implement security strategies, architectures, and roadmaps, aligned with business objectives and industry best practices.
• Research and evaluate emerging security trends, threats, and technologies, and provide recommendations for adoption and integration.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate our security tools into operations and architectural design, with an awareness for AI and agentic capabilities across the security stack
• Oversee the implementation, configuration, and administration of key security technologies across attack surface management, endpoint and data protection, cloud security, email security, network security and the safe and security adoption of AI.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance and effectiveness of our security operations, tools, processes, and recommend improvements and enhancements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security into operations and architecture.
• Promote a culture of proactive security and continuous improvement across the organization and establish metrics and KPIs for measuring the effectiveness of security controls.
• Support, enforcement and adoption of IT security policies, standards, and procedures.
• Enhance procedures to deliver security risk and business impact assessment and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Coordinates with business owners and the BISO function to determine business needs or requirements.
• Acts as a team leader establishes and communicates common goals and direction for the team.
• Evaluates status and resource utilization and implements changes to improve the team's effectiveness.
• Prepares reports and presentations and necessary. Coordinates communication between peers, team, business owners and management.
• Coordinates and oversees career development, performance management, pay determination and team communication.

III. Supervisory Responsibilities
The highest level of supervisory skills required in this job is management of supervisory employees. This includes:
 

• Direct supervision of full-time employees including team leads and individual contributors.

IV. Qualifications 
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job. 

A. Education and Experience

Education: Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Computer Science, MIS, Business Administration, or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four (4) years of relevant work experience. Experience: Six (6) years of relevant work experience (in addition to education requirement).

B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements

None required.

C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required

• Ability to oversee a team of talented security engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and professional development. 
• In-depth knowledge of cyber security principles, risk management, and compliance standards.
• Demonstrable expertise with in security technologies such as endpoint detection and response, network controls/firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, SIEM, data protection, encryption, cloud and SaaS.
• Exposure to AI/ML-based security solutions, with a working understanding of how it may impact cybersecurity tooling, threat detection, or decision-making workflows. 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a strategic mindset. 
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, or similar are a plus.
• Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
  
  Normal setting for this job is an office setting.

Benefits
At Waste Management, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.

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ABOUT WM WM (WM.com) is North America’s largest comprehensive waste management environmental solutions provider. Previously known as Waste Management and based in Houston, Texas, WM is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides collection, recycling and disposal services to millions of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. With innovative infrastructure and capabilities in recycling, organics and renewable energy, WM provides environmental solutions to and collaborates with its customers in helping them achieve their sustainability goals. WM has the largest disposal network and collection fleet in North America, is the largest recycler of post-consumer materials and is the leader in beneficial reuse of landfill gas, with a growing network of renewable natural gas plants and the most gas-to-electricity plants in North America. WM’s fleet includes nearly 11,000 natural gas trucks – the largest heavy-duty natural gas truck fleet of its kind in North America – where more than half are fueled by renewable natural gas. To learn more about WM and the company’s sustainability progress and solutions, visit Sustainability.WM.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity

For United States: WM is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

For Canada: WM is committed to the principle of equal employment for all applicants and employees, without discrimination on the basis of all grounds protected by applicable human rights legislation. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please notify us if you require accommodation.

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