Material Handler - Hazardous Waste

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Pay Range: $27.40

Shift: Monday-Thursday 10hr days 6:00am
-4:30pm daily

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Performs general operations activities and labor duties in any of the following treatment/disposal units:
Drum Process, Landfill, Stabilization, Biotreatment, Macro-encapsulation, Waste Water Treatment, Waste Sampling, or Residential/Commercial At Your Door Special Collection departments managing hazardous and non-hazardous waste streams.

• Tank Farm Operators / Bio Treatment / Arsenic F039 Leachate Treatment Unit:
  Monitor FO39 Leachate tank levels, overfill protection devices, and transfer water from tank to tank and to tanker trucks as necessary for off‑site shipments of FO39 leachate. Fill in for other positions (Hazardous Cell Mapper, Hazardous Waste Material Sampler) when required. Monitor alarms, panel board, bar graphs, and motorized valves on each FO39 leachate tank daily. Fill out appropriate documents as required, including shift log detailing level in each FO 39 leachate tank and any liquids entering or leaving tank farm.
  
  Inspect all hoses, valves, pumps, cracks in floors, containment walls, and drip pans daily. Monitor rainwater that falls inside the containment area and pump into proper tank. Order reagent for Bio/Arsenic FO39 Leachate treatment unit as needed to operate unit. Reference site‑specific procedures and more detailed site‑specific job descriptions. Perform other duties as assigned.
• Macro Operators:
  Treat hazardous debris by sealing in an approved Macro-encapsulation container. Place Macro-encapsulation vaults in roll‑off boxes. Transfer hazardous debris from one roll‑off to another when required. Fill void spaces in Macro-encapsulation roll‑off boxes with cement or gravel. Grind edge of Macro-encapsulation vault where lid is to be sealed. Measure and cut the required size of the cover to be tracked on the Macro‑encapsulation vault.
  
  Seal Macro‑encapsulation vaults using equipment provided. Operate yard‑truck, forklifts, and bucket loaders as required. Inspect and monitor process and permitted hazardous storage buildings for correction action which include floor coatings, cracks, labeling of containers, proper storage of incompatible hazardous waste, and containers that hold hazardous waste properly closed. Reference site‑specific procedures and more detailed site‑specific job descriptions. Perform other duties as assigned.
• Drum Process Unit:
  Move, empty, or fill with absorbent containers of hazardous waste as indicated by hazardous waste disposal decisions determined by the laboratory. Check with appropriate personnel to determine correct placement of hazardous waste material and transports hazardous waste to prescribed location as directed. Label loads as required. When placing hazardous waste in bulk container storage buildings, physically check hazardous waste is placed in slot next to compatible hazardous waste to prevent potential chemical reactions.
  
  Operate yard trucks to move empty trailers to Equipment Wash Facility for cleaning and decontamination, returning clean trailers to storage yard. Operate pneumatic and gear type pumps, perform very minor repairs on chain driven conveyors and solid feed screw type augers. Operate forklift as required to move hazardous material, rotate hazardous drums, to decant small hazardous containers into a bulk hazardous container, and load or unload trailers.
  
  Overpack damaged hazardous containers. Clean up spilled hazardous waste. Operate front‑end loader in the landfill to unload…