Waste Management Coordinator ; Night Shift/Weekends
Listed on 2026-01-02
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Engineering
Environmental Engineer, Environmental Compliance
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Senior Environmental, Quality, Safety, and Health Recruiter at Los Alamos National Laboratory What You Will Do Waste Management Coordinator 1 ($71,200 - $112,900)Are you passionate about environmental stewardship and ensuring the safe handling of hazardous materials? This role offers a unique opportunity to play a critical part in managing waste generated from cutting‑edge research and innovation. As a waste management specialist, you will be responsible for overseeing the proper storage, handling, characterization, packaging, and transportation of various waste materials, including hazardous, radioactive, and mixed waste, within a laboratory or high‑hazard facility.
You will work closely with scientists, engineers, and regulatory agencies to maintain compliance with environmental and safety regulations while supporting groundbreaking discoveries. Your expertise in chemical segregation, waste classification, and transportation requirements will help ensure the organization meets its safety and sustainability goals. In this role, you will be an essential link between research teams and regulatory bodies, helping to uphold the laboratory’s mission of scientific excellence while maintaining the highest standards of environmental responsibility.
If you are eager to apply your knowledge of hazardous materials management in a dynamic and impactful setting, this is the perfect opportunity to make a difference.
In addition to what was outlined at the lower level, at this level candidates will take on greater leadership and strategic responsibilities, ensuring the laboratory’s waste management program operates at peak efficiency and compliance. In addition to overseeing the proper storage, handling, characterization, packaging, and transportation of hazardous, radioactive, and mixed waste, you will assist efforts to improve waste management processes, develop best practices, and provide technical guidance to teams across the organization.
Additionally, this role may involve supporting projects related to waste minimization, sustainability initiatives, and process improvements to align with the laboratory’s mission of scientific excellence and environmental responsibility. Strong leadership skills will be essential, as this individual will mentor staff, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and drive innovation in waste management strategies. If you are looking for an opportunity to lead and shape the future of waste management in a cutting‑edge research environment, this position offers the perfect platform to make a lasting impact.
You Need Minimum
Job Requirements
- Understanding of work hazards, safety practices, operating configurations, security, environment and quality objectives and requirements.
- Basic knowledge of and experience with handling, characterizing, packaging, and/or transporting solid, liquid, hazardous, radioactive, and/or mixed wastes.
- Practical work experience with a laboratory or high‑hazard facility/environment that generated multiple waste types.
- Basic skill to communicate elements of waste management to technical and non‑technical personnel, interact, and work with internal customers as well as with Federal, State, and local agencies.
- Basic knowledge or training per DOT 49 CFR as a Basic Hazardous Materials Shipper and Basic Radioactive Materials Shipper or Certified per DOT 49 CFR as an Advanced Hazardous Materials Shipper and Advanced Radioactive Materials Shipper or Certified per DOT 49 CFR as an Advanced Mixed Waste Shipper.
- Basic knowledge and experience in managing satellite accumulation areas (SAAs), central accumulation areas (CAAs), PCB storage areas, universal waste (UW) areas, and radioactive staging/storage areas including knowledge of chemical storage, segregation, and handling.
- Basic work experience with a laboratory or R&D plant/facility that generated multiple waste types.
Job Requirements for Waste Management Coordinator 2
- All items listed under the Minimum Job Requirements.
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