Hazardous Waste Program Manager

Job Overview

The Hazardous Waste Program Manager manages all programs associated with the Hazardous Waste (HW) Program. This position reports directly to the Environmental Flight Chief. The role is full time onsite at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.

• Manage satellite/initial accumulation points, collect waste, and accomplish the required documentation for container inventories and record keeping of HW.
• Use the Air Force’s (AF) EESOH-MIS environmental management system (EMS) to create removal orders, document manifests, and other activities associated with HW.
• Remain current with Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Department of Transportation (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). required to develop and process documents and manifests to ship HW.
• Coordinate with the AF designated representatives for all waste manifests prior to transport of any waste materials from the boundary of the base.
• Review and maintain reports, logs, and manifests from nonhazardous and hazardous waste generating activities.
• Provide disposal management of all hazardous, universal, and special/state regulated wastes generated on base.
• Maintain compliance with HW program aspects including 8700-12 and 8700-13 reports, permits, fees, studies, analysis, corrective actions, reports and interaction with appropriate government agencies and ensure compliance with all applicable and most current DoD, AF, federal, state, and local requirements and environmental laws.
• Pickup waste, from base wide satellite accumulation sites or waste generation areas within the RCRA required timelines and deliver to 90-day central accumulation areas.
• Operate forklift to move and to load HW containers onto disposal trucks.
• Train satellite accumulation point managers in accordance with AF regulations.
• Manage all toxics programs requirements associated with MAX-GUN AFB.
• Maintain compliance with toxics programs aspects including permits, fees, studies, analysis, corrective actions, and interaction with appropriate government agencies and ensure compliance with all applicable and most current DoD, AF, federal, state, and local requirements and environmental laws. This includes creating and filing a PCB log annually.
• Manage all waste storage program requirements to support the installation and remote operating locations.
• Maintain compliance with HW storage program aspects including permits, fees, studies, analysis, corrective actions, annual reports and interaction with appropriate government agencies and ensure compliance with all applicable and most current DoD, AF, federal, state, and local requirements and environmental laws (CDRL 1011).
• Annually review and update the Hazardous Waste Management Plan, Hazardous Waste Contingency Plan, and the Qualified Recycling Program Plan.
• Complete internal environmental compliance self-inspections through the Wing IG Commander’s Inspection Program and participate in Unit Effectiveness Inspections.
• Implement corrective and preventive actions for all inspection deficiencies for shop and program-level SACs, document, and track findings to closure in MICT.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Effectively coordinating several projects simultaneously.
• Communicating effectively orally and in writing.
• Completing all mandated training requirements per government and management directives.
• Timely and cost-effective performance of duties.
• Adherence to established company operating policies, procedures and accepted industrial practices.
• Compliance with company Standard Operating Procedures and Personnel policies and procedures.
• Embraces and contributes to the parent company’s safety culture.
• Having the ability to work well under pressure.
• Shall be present on base during normal duty hours and available for after-hour responses.

Mandatory:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Physical Science; such as Geology, Biology, Chemistry or Environmental Science.
• Minimum of four (4) years of practical experience in the Environmental field and working with federal regulations and documents such as multi-discipline RCRA, CWA, CAA and FIFRA experience.
• Required:
  
  current RCRA-DOT Hazmat and Waste Ground Shipper…