Details:
- Salary: £30,000 - 40,000 - Annum
- Location: West Midlands
- Date: 1 month ago
Description:
Reports to: Head of Executive Support Services
Job Purpose: To bring value to the business by accepting and inspecting all incoming assignments of Hazardous and Non-hazardous waste by following the relevant regulations and site procedures.
Your Daily objectives as a Senior Site Chemist will involve:
* Ensuring all incoming consignments of wastes have appropriate paperwork (Consignment Note/Duty of Care),
* Ensuring all appropriate paperwork has been completed correctly and copies are held on site and with hauliers.
* Responsible for the completion of waste safety checks to allow acceptance to site, storage safety and processing and/or onwards transfer.
* Responsible for the completion of regular sampling of received waste to then further supply to internal laboratory for analysis.
* Ensuring incoming waste is inspected to BAT requirements in Sector Guidance Note 5.06.
* Ensuring waste is routed such that costs are minimised whilst maintaining legality and compliance.
* Waste acceptance is recorded using the SAP system.
* Non-Conformances are recorded using the SAP system, detailing all relevant information.
* Ensuring paperwork is passed through for scanning within 48 hours of arrival.
* Ensuring all waste is being appropriately stored in line with Sector Guidance and Permits.
* Ensuring all waste is labelled correctly with all relevant information.
* Processing of waste as required – to include bulking, sorting, segregating, listing and re-packing of wastes.
* Provide technical support to other members of staff on site.
* Complete relevant outgoing paperwork.
* Act as a site first aider (once trained).
* To maintain a clean and tidy work area completing housekeeping.
* To assist other teams when required.
* To perform other duties as reasonably required by the business.
Your General Responsibilities will include:
* Additional duties as requested by senior management in line with the capabilities of the role holder.
* Support and contribute to the group overall objectives and aims, in line with the role holders experience, and competence.
* Support and contribute to all aspects of “good” safety and health, daily awareness of safety issues and well-being awareness.
* Fully responsible for your own and others’ health and safety
* Ensure all incidents, observations and concerns are reported through an escalation process; solutions are identified and actions, in line with Company policy.
* Ensure ideas for the improvement of safety are listened to and acted upon, involving the Health and Safety representatives and HR Management if necessary.
* Ensure non company employees (visitors, third parties and contractors) confirm to the Health and Safety Policy including using the correct Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
* Raise a Corrective Action Report for any concern or improvement opportunity.
* Compliance with all energy saving activities such as switching off lights and other equipment when not in use; switching photocopiers to standby mode, setting the thermostat at right setting; closing windows/doors when heating is on; when using, kettles fill up to what is required; and using hot water economically.
* Compliance with water saving activities such as: turning off taps properly and reporting dripping taps and water leaks to Supervisor or Manager.
* Compliance with our reduction in pollution activities, where possible reducing usage, and reusing or recycling waste; and handling all chemicals as per COSHH sheets; complying with safety rules in relation to minor spills (e.g. soak up and report to manager) and major spills (e.g. immediately report to a manager).
* Compliance with emissions goals when driving company vehicles or otherwise driving on company business, do so in an economical manner i.e. choosing the shortest route to a destination where possible, ensuring that vehicles are properly maintained, driving in a non-aggressive manner and always within the speed limit.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential Professional Qualities
- HNC or Degree Level Qualification in Chemistry or a similar related field
- Experience in the Hazardous Waste Sector
- Knowledge of Hazardous Waste Regulations
- Knowledge of the Health & Work Act 1974, The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
- Experience to working to HSG51 – The Storage of Flammable Liquids in Containers, HSG 71 Chemical Warehousing: The storage of Packaged Dangerous Substances.
Essential Personal Qualities
- Dedicated and Professional approach
- Excellent attention to detail
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to communicate well with others.
- Be comfortable working within a team and contributing to its success.
- Be comfortable working on your own initiative.
- FLT License
If you are not contacted by a CW Executive Search consultant within 14 days of application, then your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful