Treatment Technician

Nuclear Waste Segment Position

This position is responsible for performing waste processing and treatment activities for the nuclear waste segment at Perma-Fix of Florida treatment, storage, and disposal Facility (TSDF).

Duties:

• Regulatory compliance.
• Waste processing and/or treatment in accordance established procedures.
• Initiation and maintenance of daily process logs.
• Verification of materials stored and processed for QA/QC.
• Container handling (palletizing; ringing, stacking and labeling).
• Daily processing activities may include working with the following:
• Hazardous/non-hazardous organic and aqueous radioactive matrices
• Hazardous and non- hazardous radioactive solids/sludge
• Decommissioning of hazardous and non-hazardous radioactive lab packs
• Mercury and other elemental heavy metals, asbestos, potential blood-borne pathogens, etc.
• Various chemical reagents (organic, aqueous, oxidizers, acids, bases, etc.)
• Industrial processing type equipment
• Recommend management action to improve standard operating procedures.
• Initiation of non-conformance, incident and near miss reporting.
• Identify and requisition processing supplies and reagents.
• Interacts with facility personnel to achieve departmental objectives.
• Department level quality assurance.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• College, vocational or job training in chemistry or chemical engineering.
• Ability to successfully complete training and certification provided by Perma-Fix
• 40-hour OSHA Hazwoper Certification with current 8-hr refresher.
• 16-hour radiation safety training with current 4-hour refresher.
• Facility equipment operations level training
• Facility waste operations training
• Facility quality assurance program operations level training
• Attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Personality conducive to teamwork.
• Ability to follow written and oral directives.
• Annual respirator fit test qualified and ability to function in all levels of personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Written and verbal communication skills.
• Displays professionalism.
• Ability to multitask.
• Capacity to apply analytical evaluations to assigned work.
• Ability to obtain Sit down, Counter-Balanced Lift Truck operator's license.

Working Conditions:

Heavy lifting, exposure to excessive noise during floor operations, ambient weather conditions / seasonal extremes of temperature, use of a particulate mask, air-purifying respirator;
Tyvek, or other protective equipment required, working with radioactive and hazardous waste to include chemical reagents, use of industrial processing equipment and tools.