Material Handler - Hazardous Waste Hazardous

Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

Shift: Monday-Friday Every other Saturday ½ day, Night Shift 11pm-7am

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I. Job Summary
Performs general operations activities and labor duties in any of the following treatment/disposal units: Drum Process, Landfill, Stabilization, Biotreatment, Macro-encapsulation, Waste Water Treatment, Waste Sampling, or Residential/Commercial At Your Door Special Collection departments managing hazardous and non-hazardous waste streams. 

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

Tank Farm Operators / Bio Treatment / Arsenic F039 Leachate Treatment Unit
Monitors FO39 Leachate tank levels, overfill protection devices, and transfers water from tank to tank and to tanker trucks as necessary for off-site shipments of FO39 leachate.

• Fill in for other positions (Hazardous Cell Mapper, Hazardous Waste Material Sampler) when required.
• Monitors alarms, panel board, bar graphs, and motorized valves on each FO39 leachate tank daily.
• Fill out appropriate documents as required, including shift log detailing level in each FO 39 leachate tank and any liquids entering or leaving tank farm.
• Inspects all hoses, valves, pumps, cracks in floors, containment walls, and drip pans daily.
• Monitor rainwater that falls inside the containment area and pump into proper tank.
• Orders reagent for Bio/Arsenic FO39 Leachate treatment unit as needed to operate unit.
• Reference site-specific procedures and more detailed site-specific job descriptions.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Macro Operators

• Treats hazardous debris by sealing in an approved Macro-encapsulation container.
• Places Macro-encapsulation vaults in roll-off boxes.
• Transfers hazardous debris from one roll-off to another when required.
• Fills void spaces in Macro-encapsulation roll-off boxes with cement or gravel.
• Grinds edge of Macro-encapsulation vault where lid is to be sealed.
• Measures and cuts the required size of the cover to be tracked on the Macro-encapsulation vault.
• Seals Macro-encapsulation vaults using equipment provided.
• Operates yard-truck, forklifts, and bucket loaders as required.
• Inspects and monitors process and permitted hazardous storage buildings for correction action which include the followings: Floor coatings, cracks, labeling of
• containers, proper storage of incompatible hazardous waste, and containers which holds hazardous waste are properly closed.
• Reference site-specific procedures and more detailed site-specific job descriptions.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Drum Process Unit

• Move, empty, or fill with absorbent containers of hazardous waste as indicated by hazardous waste disposal decisions determined by the laboratory.
• Checks with appropriate personnel to determine correct placement of hazardous waste material and transports hazardous waste to prescribed location as directed.
• Labels loads as required.
• When placing hazardous waste in bulk container storage buildings, physically checks hazardous waste is placed in slot next to compatible hazardous waste to
• prevent potential chemical reactions.
• Operate yard trucks to move empty trailers to Equipment Wash Facility for cleaning and decontamination, returning clean trailers to storage yard.
• Operate pneumatic and gear type pumps, perform very minor repairs on chain driven conveyors and solid feed, screw type augers.
• Operate forklift as required to move hazardous material, rotate hazardous drums, to decant small hazardous containers into a bulk hazardous container, and load or unload trailers.
• Over pack damaged hazardous containers.
• Clean up spilled