Waste Systems & Resource Recovery Advisor

Waste operations | Segregation | Recovery infrastructure

LOCATION

NCR or any A-Tier city

ENGAGEMENT

Short-term | 3-4 months

OPENINGS

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We are looking for an accomplished waste-sector practitioner who can go beyond desk research to establish how collection, separation, transfer and treatment systems perform in real conditions. The successful candidate will turn operational evidence into realistic service and infrastructure recommendations.

Your mandate

Lead technical interpretation of the waste-services baseline, with particular attention to the four main material streams and the operational reasons behind service gaps.

What you will lead

- Examine separation across the full chain. Assess handling of wet, dry, sanitary and special-care household waste from source to the point of transfer and onward treatment. Distinguish actual material purity and cross-contamination from self-reported segregation figures.
- Guide rigorous transfer-site testing. Define technical review parameters for incoming-load counts on three randomly chosen days at active transfer and secondary storage sites. Check use of portable weighing equipment, before-tipping photographs, material classification and reconciliation with station logs.
- Diagnose collection and neighbourhood issues. Interpret household, shop and field-observation findings on missed door-to-door collection, secondary-bin dependence, overflow hotspots and underserved settlement types. Recommend changes to achieve near-universal service coverage and better separation compliance.
- Assess processing and recovery performance. Review operating status, incoming tonnage, design versus effective capacity, output quality and rejection destinations for waste-to-energy, bio-gas, material-recovery,



composting and related facilities. Separate verified observations from administrative inventory figures.
- Scrutinise large waste generators. Review the survey of generators above the defined daily-volume threshold and the sampled smaller establishments. Check real waste quantities from measured sub-samples, on-site processing actually in use, service-provider arrangements and final destinations of each waste stream.
- Benchmark operator delivery. Provide technical inputs for scoring private collection and transport providers on service coverage, segregation, route adherence, staffing, attendance and record reliability. Identify recurring exceptions that are significant enough to feature in a monthly performance review.

ROLE DETAILS / CONTINUED

Waste Systems & Resource Recovery Advisor

Delivery, quality and collaboration

- Prepare an infrastructure needs assessment. Specify practical requirements for transfer capacity, partitioning, compaction, bins, service vehicles, decentralised processing and material-recovery facilities. Derive indicative volumes and costs from verified generation, catchments and service gaps rather than untested norms.
- Interpret financial and institutional constraints. Review operating expenditure per tonne, user-fee recovery, field monitoring, enforcement records and awareness spending as inputs to service sustainability and improvement priorities.




- Contribute to phased improvement plans. Help build an overarching service strategy and local implementation plans with clear monthly milestones for complete collection and proper separation. Account for difficult-access areas and the operational capacity of existing operators and plants.
- Support training and validation. Brief enumerators and supervisors on waste classifications, load-purity recording, facility checklists and evidence expectations; review questionable observations and recommend targeted rechecks before technical sign-off.
- Work within the agreed study boundaries. Coordinate with specialist analysts and external research partners; rely on existing government records for waste categories outside the core field-measurement streams, and provide technical priorities for awareness strategy without duplicating campaign execution.

What you will help deliver
- Technical findings on collection, segregation, transfer efficiency and waste processing.
- Verifiable facility-capacity and high-volume-generator assessments with transparent evidence gaps.
- Service and infrastructure requirements supported by quantity, cost and catchment logic.
- Inputs to phased service plans, operator ratings and public-awareness priorities.

Who should apply
- Degree in Engineering or Environmental Science.
- Minimum 10 years of solid waste operations, technical evaluation or system-planning experience.
- Demonstrated exposure to segregation, transfer stations and processing or material-recovery facilities in Indian cities.
- Environmental engineers, senior consultants and plant/service specialists comfortable with field audits and technical writing.

How to apply mail to [email protected]

📌 waste systems & resource recovery advisor (Delhi)
🏢 Human Matrix
📍 Delhi