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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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