Australia's largest waste management and resource recovery operator
Cleanaway is Australia's largest publicly listed waste management company, operating 350+ locations with 10,000+ employees across collections, recycling, industrial services, and hazardous-waste handling. The tech stack is enterprise-heavy (SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Salesforce, Coupa) with no active adopting or replacing signals — a mature, operationally-focused organization. Hiring is skewed dramatically toward operations and logistics (131 of 177 roles), with active projects around fleet maintenance restructure, route optimization, and driver training, indicating a push to improve operational efficiency and labor costs.
Cleanaway Waste Management Limited is Australia's largest waste management operator, serving small businesses through government agencies and multinational clients. The company operates across general waste collection and recycling, resource recovery and processing, industrial services (liquid and hazardous waste, cleaning, spill response, hydro excavation), and waste-equipment manufacturing. With footprint across 350+ Australian locations and 10,000+ employees, Cleanaway positions waste as a resource — incorporating recovery, recycling, and reuse throughout its operations and customer solutions. The business is organized around collections, transportation, processing and disposal, and management of recycling and landfill infrastructure.
Cleanaway uses SAP, Oracle, and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne for enterprise operations; Salesforce for sales; Coupa for procurement; and Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) alongside Adobe Creative Cloud, Hootsuite, Canva, and Monday.com.
Active projects include Queensland containers-for-change scheme implementation, national fleet-maintenance restructure, route optimization, in-cab technology rollout, driver academy training (including women's program), and safety/workflow improvements.
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