Environmental Professional

Overview

POSITION SUMMARY: This position manages newly generated waste, advises generators on packaging, prepares waste containers for shipment, utilizes WCATS, and ensures program compliance.

426.2: This position is subject to DOE Order 426.2, Personnel Selection, Training, and Qualification Requirements for DOE Nuclear Facilities, which establishes entry-level requirements to ensure candidates selected for specific positions can successfully perform the requirements of the job.

• Provide Waste Management technical guidance (cradle to grave) to N3B projects and generators.
• Compliant application and oversight per Department of Transportation (49 CFR 172) shipping documentation, marking, labeling and placarding and the requirements in 49 CFR 173 Subpart I - Class 7 (Radioactive Materials).
• Evaluate and characterize waste (Solid, LLW, MLLW, Hazardous).
• Develop waste off-site profiles for N3B waste streams.
• Technical interface with off-site TSDFs.
• Directs labeling and placarding, as applicable, to each shipment movement on/offsite to final waste disposition.
• Manages newly generated waste at N3B, advising generators on packaging, receiving waste from other N3B locations into TSDF, lab packing small quantities.
• Obtains and reviews back-up documentation for each container on the load list to reference during shipment preparation.
• Provides guidance and oversight of various organizations throughout N3B to ensure compliant shipment of waste and materials.
• Provides oversight of junior waste coordinators and interface with subcontractor waste coordinators.
• Reviews and approves waste section of maintenance work packages and assists in procedure development.
• Ability to communicate major elements of waste management and characterization to both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Supports development and implementation of training and qualification requirements to N3B training organization for the certification of waste personnel per N3B policy requirements; and
• Review and provide technical input for waste sampling and analysis plans.
• Performs other duties as required.

• A bachelor's degree in a closely related field. However, a combination of education and relevant experience wherein the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the position's duties and responsibilities have been adequately demonstrated is acceptable.

• 12+ years of hazardous waste/hazardous materials management. Per DOE O 426.2, this position requires one year of job-related experience. However, a combination of education and relevant experience wherein the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the position's duties and responsibilities have been adequately demonstrated is acceptable.

• DOT Hazardous Material Shipping Certification

• Advanced knowledge of the following regulations:
  Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) required.
• Advanced knowledge of radiological characterization strategies; and
• Level of language skills, mathematical skills, communication skills, reasoning ability and computer skills necessary to perform essential functions of the job.
• Skill in organization, time management, attention to detail, and analytics, with the ability to exercise independent judgment.
• Skill in packaging, handling and/or transporting solid, liquid, hazardous, radioactive, and/or mixed wastes.
• Ability to build and work collaboratively in a team concept environment and work
• Ability to lead and mentor junior waste coordinators.
• Ability to meet the level of language skills, mathematical skills, communication skills, reasoning ability and computer skills necessary to perform essential functions of the job.
• Ability to work within established policies and procedures, using independent judgement, ingenuity, and integrity.

Serves a prime consultant and external spokesperson for the organization on highly, significant matters relating to policies.

Decisions affect the financial, employee, or public relations posture of the organization. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would normally result in failure to achieve goals critical to the major objectives of the organization.

• Individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.
• This position works in an office environment with low noise level due mostly to office equipment and in the field with occasional exposure to loud sounds and distracting noise levels.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk, stand, and occasionally climb or balance, squat, stoop, twist, turn, push, pull, kneel, crouch, crawl, and reach with hands and arms.
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