Senior Site Chemist

Senior Site Chemist

Brownhills, WS8

Full Time Permanent Position

£26,000 annual salary

Our client are looking for a Senior 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) completed correctly and copies are held on site and are passed back to the hauliers
• Ensure incoming waste is inspected to BAT requirements in Sector Guidance Note 5.06
• If waste does not match pre-acceptance information Non-Conformance Procedure is followed and a Non-Conformance is raised with supporting evidence (photos, weighbridge tickets)
• Ensure paperwork accompanying any incoming loads is appropriately scanned and saved in database
  folder under the loads unique reference number and consignment note number for auditing purposes
• Work to 48-hour KPI for incoming loads to be accepted and associated paperwork passed over for post acceptance input onto Database system
• Ensure waste is being appropriately stored inline with Sector Guidance Note 5.06, the sites
• Environmental Permit and to HSG51 – The Storage of Flammable Liquids in Containers, HSG 71 Chemical Warehousing: The Storage of Packaged Dangerous Substances
• Ensure all waste is labelled correctly with label appropriately visible when it enters storage bay
• Sampling of accepted waste to supply to internal laboratory for further analysis or to pass on to suppliers
  to confirm suitability for acceptance
• Generation of IPOs in line with the IPO Procedure
• Promote a positive Health and Safety driven environment – reporting near misses on Active at a KPI of 1 per month and rectifying any potential concerns for Health and Safety readily

Generic Duties:

• Support and contribute to the companies 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 wellbeing 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 employees (visitors, third parties and contractors) confirm to the Health and Safety Policy including using the correct Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• 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 (eg. soak up and report to manager) and major spills (eg. 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

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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