Material Handler - Hazardous Waste

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I. Job Summary
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.

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned.

Tank Farm Operators / Bio Treatment / Arsenic F039 Leachate Treatment Unit
Monitors FO39 Leachate tank levels, overfill protection devices, and transfers water from tank to tank and to tanker trucks as necessary for off-site shipments of FO39 leachate.

• 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.
• Reference site-specific procedures and more detailed site-specific job descriptions.
• Orders reagent for Bio/Arsenic FO39 Leachate treatment unit as needed to operate unit.
• Monitor rainwater that falls inside the containment area and pump into proper tank.
• Performing other duties as assigned.
• Monitors alarms, panel board, bar graphs, and motorized valves on each FO39 leachate tank daily.
• Fill in for other positions (Hazardous Cell Mapper, Hazardous Waste Material Sampler) when required.
• Inspects all hoses, valves, pumps, cracks in floors, containment walls, and drip pans daily.

Macro Operators

• Transfers hazardous debris from one roll-off to another when required.
• Grinds edge of Macro-encapsulation vault where lid is to be sealed.
• Measures and cuts the required size of the cover to be tracked on the Macro-encapsulation vault.
• Treats hazardous debris by sealing in an approved Macro-encapsulation container.
• Places Macro-encapsulation vaults in roll-off boxes.
• Performing other duties as assigned.
• Inspects and monitors process and permitted hazardous storage buildings for correction action which include the followings: Floor coatings, cracks, labeling of
• Fills void spaces in Macro-encapsulation roll-off boxes with cement or gravel.
• Reference site-specific procedures and more detailed site-specific job descriptions.
• Operates yard-truck, forklifts, and bucket loaders as required.
• Seals Macro-encapsulation vaults using equipment provided.
• Containers, proper storage of incompatible hazardous waste, and containers which holds hazardous waste are properly closed.

Drum Process Unit

• Performs prescribed safety and maintenance checks to ensure equipment is in safe working condition.
• Checks with appropriate personnel to determine correct placement of hazardous waste material and transports hazardous waste to prescribed location as directed.
• Operate yard trucks to move empty trailers to Equipment Wash Facility for cleaning and decontamination, returning clean trailers to storage yard.
• Prevent potential chemical reactions.
• 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.
• Operates front-end loader in the landfill to unload hazardous containers.
• Operates other equipment as needed.
• When placing hazardous waste in bulk container storage buildings, physically checks hazardous waste is placed in slot next to compatible hazardous waste to
• Move, empty, or fill with absorbent containers of hazardous waste as indicated by hazardous waste disposal decisions determined by the laboratory.
• Operate pneumatic and gear type pumps, perform very minor repairs on chain driven conveyors and solid feed, screw type augers.
• Reference site-specific procedures and more detailed site-specific job descriptions.
• Over pack damaged hazardous containers.
• Performing other duties as assigned.
• Operates high-lift tractor to empty hazardous contents in van trailers and flatbeds.
• Clean up spilled hazardous waste.
• Labels loads as required.

Waste Material Samplers

• Performing other duties as assigned.
• Inspects, opens and samples every hazardous container that is received at the facility per Sampling Protocols and Procedures.
• Operates hazardous waste truck wash facility and fills in as hazardous waste cell mapper when required
• Prepare physical hazardous inventories and compare those with the computer-generated inventories and reconcile the differences.
• Maintain acceptable level of housekeeping and compliance.
• Ensure company policies and procedures are followed while performing work assignments.
• Reference site-specific procedures and more detailed site-specific job descriptions.
• Completes necessary paperwork and maintain hazardous waste tracking system. Enters data into computerized hazardous waste tracking system and distributes documents as required.
• Reviews paperwork on all inbound hazardous wastes container shipments.
• Coordinate with Chemical Operators, Forklift, Heavy Equipment Operator and Yard-Truck Operator when hazardous waste containers need to be moved to another location.

Residential/Commercial At Your Door Special Collection

• Performs inspections and checks of maintenance, housekeeping and environmental compliance natures.
• Safely operates (compliant with SOP) of fork truck
• Follows standard safety procedures, corrects safety and environmental hazards and reports them to management immediately.
• Processes wastes and other materials including but not limited to bulking of paint materials, packaging/bulking of aerosols, palletizing items.
• Oversees and maintains warehouse and storage areas in a safe, organized, clean, secure and effective manner. Assists in maintaining an acceptable level of inventory, waste materials and consumables.
• Reads, understands and applies information such as lockout/tagout procedures, safety rules, job hazard analyses, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Unloads and loads incoming and outgoing waste and other materials.
• Performing other duties as assigned.
• Communicates clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing.

III. Supervisory Responsibilities
This job has no supervisory duties.

IV. Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.

A. Education and Experience

• Experience: No prior work experience required.
• Education: Not required.

B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements

NEW EMPLOYEE TRAINING (As Required):

• DOT & M2Z (Driver Only)
• HAZWOPER (24 or 40 hour as required)
• RCRA

RCRA / HAZWOPER Training (As Required):

• Superfund Amendment & Reauthorization Act (SARA)
• Security Plan
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
• Clean Air Act (CAA)
• Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA)
• Spill Prevention Control & Countermeasure Plan (SPCC)
• National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
• Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA)
• Code of Federal Regulation (CFR 40, 29, & 49)
• Clean Water Act (CWA)
• Contingency Plan
• Hazwoper
• Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA)
• Hazardous Waste Transportation Act (HWTA)

Standard Division Practices (per department) (SDPs)

Refresher Training (As Required )

• Hazwoper
• DOT
• Forklift
• RCRA

Medical Exam (As Required):

• Complete Physical Biennially
• Physical at Termination
• Pre Employment Physical and Drug Test
• Pulmonary Function Test (PFT), Audiogram and Respirator Fit Test annual

PPE (As Required):

• Full face supplied air in some arrears
• Respirators Full face OV/AG or half face with face shield

Suit Appropriate Barrier Suite: Liquid yellow Tyvek with sleeves, apron, booties Solid white tyvek
Gloves appropriate to hazards present PVC over Nitrile or Butyl (Liquid Waste) Leather Work (Solid Waste), Leather/Cloth work (when handling equipment or containers)
Overshoes Vinyl Booties Waterproof Boots Chemical Resistant Boots
Safety glasses
Hard Hats
Shoes Steel Toe

C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required
None required.

V. Work Environment
Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

• Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, burns, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, etc) all of the work day rarely;
• Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc) most of the work day;
• Normal setting for this job is: operating material handling equipment, Hazardous waste landfill.
• Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements Most of work day frequently rarely;
• Required to exert physical effort in handling objects less than 40 pounds part of the work day;

Note: The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than documented here.

Benefits
At Waste Management, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.

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