Personnel

SCS reconfigures executive staff

SCS Engineers, a Long Beach, California-based environmental engineering firm with a focus on the waste and recycling sectors, has reconfigured its executive leadership team after holding its semiannual board of directors meeting recently under the guidance of board Chair Jim Walsh and CEO Doug Doerr.

In the new configuration, Curtis Jang assumes the role of president, calling upon a 30-year tenure in financial management and organizational improvement.

“To ensure our continued success and to position ourselves for future growth, I’ve entrusted several key individuals to assume new executive roles,” Doerr says. “As one of the country’s foremost environmental engineering firms experiencing remarkable growth, it is imperative that we equip ourselves for the challenges and opportunities ahead.”

In his role as president, Jang will collaborate closely with Doerr and the rest of the newly appointed executive leadership team, “prioritizing the welfare of its employee-owners, fostering a cohesive ‘One SCS’ ethos and delivering unparalleled service to our valued clients,” the company says in a press release.

Eddy Smith has assumed the role of chief operating officer. In that role he “will lead business strategies across various units and practices to foster enhanced collaboration companywide, thereby enhancing value delivery to clients,” according to SCS. Smith has more than three decades of experience in environmental and civil engineering design and consulting.

Chief Financial Officer Steve Liggins, with 17 years of finance experience, will oversee finance and accounting functions at SCS Engineers.

Stacey Dolden was named chief people officer, with a commission to “spearhead the company’s intensified focus on enhancing the employee experience.” Dolden has 24 years of human resources experience.

Jay Hatho, a 25-year corporate veteran, serves as the chief information and chief technology officer of SCS. In that role he will lead the development and implementation of innovative technological solutions within SCS, as well as for its clients.

Nathan Hamm will continue to serve SCS as a senior vice president, with a focus on driving strategic initiatives aimed at expanding its service platform and offering creative solutions to clients’ environmental and business challenges. Hamm has more than 26 years of industry experience.

SCS Engineers is involved in a range of services for the waste, recycling and demolition sectors, including brownfields remediation, landfill engineering and landfill gas capture services, transfer station and material recovery facility project consulting, municipal solid waste and recycling planning and organics management.

M&J Recycling appoints new CEO

M&J Recycling, based in Denmark, has appointed René Normann Christensen as its new CEO. With this appointment, the M&J board of directors says it is preparing for the company’s next phase of growth.

Christensen has a long history of leadership experience, most recently as CEO of Kohberg Bakery Group A/S and previously as CEO of Glunz & Jensen A/S and Plus Pack A/S.

“After a successful carve-out from Metso in 2021, M&J Recycling has now reached a point on the growth journey where it is necessary to change focus and increase momentum,” Chairman Carsten Knudsen says. “There is a significant global potential for M&J’s industrial waste shredders, and I am confident that René Normann Christensen will, as the new CEO, strengthen the organization and take M&J Recycling to the next level.”

Revenue growth has been strong during M&J Recycling’s first two years as a stand-alone company while simultaneously establishing itself as a new independent organization, the company says.

Christensen immediately assumed his position as CEO.

“I am both proud and delighted to join M&J Recycling—a company with a great purpose and a fantastic growth potential—and I look forward to meeting both employees, customers and business partners very soon,” he says.

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WPWMA hires agency’s first general manager

The Western Placer Waste Management Authority (WPWMA), Roseville, California, has announced the hiring of the agency’s first general manager, Scott Scholz. In this newly created position, Scholz will report directly to the agency’s Board of Directors, comprised of elected officials from the WPWMA’s Member Agencies—Placer County and the cities of Lincoln, Rocklin and Roseville.

Scholz comes to the WPWMA after serving as the executive director of the Regional Waste Management Authority, a solid waste joint powers authority serving the Sutter and Yuba County jurisdictions.

“This is an important step for the WPWMA,” says Board Chair Shanti Landon, a Placer County supervisor. “As our service area continues to grow and new challenges emerge within the solid waste and recycling industry, an experienced and proven leader who is wholly dedicated to the essential work the authority is doing alongside our member agencies is invaluable. I look forward to the continued success of the WPWMA under Scott’s leadership.”

The WPWMA is a joint powers authority established in 1978 to own and operate the only active sanitary landfill in Placer County and recycling facilities for municipalities across western Placer County, serving more than 400,000 residents and businesses from Roseville to Foresthill. Since 1978, Placer County’s Departments of Public Works and Facility Services have provided administrative support and executive management to the WPWMA.

In 2023, the board initiated a contract with recruiting firm Bob Murray and Associates to hire a full-time general manager who would help the WPWMA grow and flourish as an independent regional agency.

Under the board’s direction, Scholz will manage the agency’s operations, engineering, administration and finances, including managing its contractors. Scholz will lead a staff committed to the WPWMA’s mission to “create solutions and transform waste into a resource for a sustainable environment and prosperous economy.”