Waste management group Cleanaway will shell out a $1.8 million sign-on fee to new chief executive Mark Schubert as part of a package enticing the experienced gas executive to jump ship from running the Integrated Gas division at Origin Energy.

Mr Schubert, who has been running the integrated gas business at Origin for four years won’t be starting at Cleanaway until the new financial year, but Cleanaway chairman Mark Chellew said he was the ideal person to run the company and had lengthy experience running “large and complex businesses”.