Site Chemist
Brownhills, WS8
Full Time Permanent Position
£26,000 annual salary
Our client are looking for a site chemist to join their team at their depot in Brownhills. They are an ambitious company and every single member of their team is a critical part of making the company a success.
Main Duties:
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
Generic Duties:
Additional duties as requested by senior management in line with the capabilities of the role holder
Support and contribute to Red Industries 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 RED 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
Candidate Requirements:
HNC or Degree Level Qualification in Chemistry or a similar related field
Experience of the Waste Industry is desirable
SAP experience is desirable
Competent Microsoft Office user, in particular Excel
Person Specification:
Willingness to work in outdoor conditions in a hazardous chemical environment undertaking a manual/hands on approach
A natural leader of processes
Communicates well at all levels including executive level
Makes decisions based on data, information and evidence
Able to drive team performance and improve functional knowledge of the team through knowledge sharing
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