Material Handler Hazardous Waste PTO

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.

• 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.
• Fills 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.
• Fills out appropriate documents as required, including shift log detailing level in each FO39 leachate tank and any liquids entering or leaving tank farm.
• Inspects all hoses, valves, pumps, cracks in floors, containment walls, and drip pans daily.
• Monitors rainwater that falls inside the containment area and pumps into proper tank.
• Orders reagent for Bio/Arsenic FO39 Leachate treatment unit as needed to operate unit.
• References site‑specific procedures and more detailed site‑specific job descriptions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Treats hazardous debris by sealing it 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 that includes floor coatings, cracks, labeling of containers, proper storage of incompatible hazardous waste, and ensures containers are properly closed.
• References site‑specific procedures and more detailed site‑specific job descriptions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Moves, empties, or fills 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.
• Operates yard trucks to move empty trailers to Equipment Wash Facility for cleaning and decontamination, returning clean trailers to storage yard.
• Operates pneumatic and gear‑type pumps, performs very minor repairs on chain‑driven conveyors and solid feed screw type augers.
• Operates 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- packs damaged hazardous containers.
• Cleans up spilled hazardous waste.
• Operates front‑end loader in the landfill to unload hazardous containers.
• Operates high‑lift tractor to empty hazardous contents in van trailers and flatbeds.
• Performs prescribed safety and maintenance checks to ensure equipment is in safe working condition.
• Operates other equipment as needed.
• References site‑specific procedures and more detailed site‑specific job descriptions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Reviews paperwork on all inbound hazardous wastes container shipments.
• Inspects, opens and samples every hazardous container that is received at the facility per Sampling Protocols and Procedures.
• Coordinates with Chemical Operators, Forklift, Heavy Equipment Operator and Yard‑Truck Operator when hazardous waste containers need to be moved…