Waste Management Coordinator

What You Will Do

As a Waste Management Coordinator, you will oversee the proper storage, handling, characterisation, packaging, and transportation of hazardous, radioactive, and mixed waste generated by laboratory research. You will work closely with scientists, engineers, regulatory agencies, and internal teams to maintain compliance with environmental and safety regulations.

• Oversee storage, handling, characterisation, packaging, and transportation of various waste materials.
• Ensure compliance with environmental and safety regulations and coordinate with regulatory agencies.
• Advise research teams on waste classification and segregation, ensuring best practices.
• For the higher level: lead the waste management program, develop best practices, provide technical guidance, mentor staff, and support waste minimisation, sustainability initiatives, and process improvements.

• Understanding of work hazards, safety practices, and security requirements.
• Basic knowledge and experience handling, characterising, packaging, and transporting solid, liquid, hazardous, radioactive, and mixed wastes.
• Practical work experience in a laboratory or high‑hazard facility that generates multiple waste types.
• Good communication skills to interact with technical and non‑technical personnel.
• Knowledge or certification per DOT 49 CFR (Basic/Advanced Hazardous Materials Shipper, Radioactive Materials Shipper, or Mixed Waste Shipper).
• Experience managing satellite accumulation areas, central accumulation areas, PCB storage, universal waste areas, and radioactive staging/storage areas.

Lower level:
Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of related experience or equivalent combination.
Higher level:
Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of related experience or equivalent combination.

• Active or transferable Q clearance and HRP.
• Experience coordinating cradle‑to‑grave management and disposition of wastes.
• Knowledge of LANL’s organisational structure and facilities.
• Experience with LANL’s waste management policies and procedures.
• Previous qualification as a waste professional in a DOE facility.
• Chemical lab packing experience.

• General physical mobility: sitting, standing, walking, climbing stairs, bending, stooping, crouching, kneeling, twisting trunk or back, balancing.
• Specific mobility: applying torque, gripping, pressing, pulling, pushing, reaching overhead, typing, use of both hands, arms, legs and feet.
• Weight handling: carry or lift 30+ pounds.

Los Alamos, NM. All work locations are at the discretion of management.

Regular appointment employees are required to serve a 1‑year continuous period in the current position before being eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is an equal‑opportunity employer and supports a diverse and inclusive workforce. All employment practices are based on qualification and merit, without regard to race, colour, national origin, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status or spousal affiliation, physical or mental disability, medical conditions, pregnancy, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, or citizenship. The Laboratory is committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process.

To request such an accommodation, please contact the application assistance line.

Applicants who are citizens of the People's Republic of China (including Hong Kong and Macau), the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or the Russian Federation without lawful permanent residency status are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities.

Selected applicants must obtain a Q clearance through a federal background investigation, which requires U.S. citizenship. Dual citizens may be eligible, but clearance is subject to federal approval.

All successful applicants will be required to complete a new‑employment drug test. A positive test for marijuana will result in termination of employment.