Job Description

Job Title: Environmental Services Technician

Starting Pay: $22/hr plus OT available

Location: Blaine, MN

• Schedule- Monday-Friday 5am-2pm or 6am-3pm (OT 5-10 hours)

MUST HAVES:

• Respirator certified: can pass fit test. 1-2 hr. a week total for wearing wearing respiratory mask. MUST HAVE CLEAN CUT SHAVE.
• Involved with healthcare, technician, drivers, have been there 10 + yrs.
• Soft skills: work independently and team, organized, punctual, reliable, etc.
• BG and DT and Education
• Nice to have hospital and hazardous waste BG
• Nice to have 40 hr. Hazwoper cert

General Purpose

Environmental Specialist I, you will learn the safe and compliant packaging and shipping of hazardous waste while working at a customer’s location. You’ll learn how it’s handled safely, where it goes, and how we help keep these materials out of landfills and water supplies. In this role, you will collect, separate and pack hazardous material for storage and transport and you’ll be trained to complete the required documentation in accordance with our practices and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Travel to Abbott Northwestern or United Hospital in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN on M, W, F, and ride along with a CDL B specialist on Tuesday and Thursdays
• Point of Contact
• Handling Concerns and Special Projects
• Communication between generator and Clean Earth
• Walk, collect, sort, package, and label hazardous and nonhazardous waste within the hospital site
• Utilizing online work order system which prints service requests, TM will collect hazardous and non-hazardous materials from various accumulation areas on the hospital campus and deliver the materials to Hazardous Waste Storage areas
• Keep accurate inventories of materials for disposal
• Ensure all containers are tracked, labeled and dated
• Ensure all containers are always closed
• Pour off approved 5-gallon containers into drums
• Relabel bulked 5-gallon containers for reuse for the same material
• Compile detailed inventories of lab pack materials, segregate and package lab pack materials based on prepared inventory sheets
• Prepare all required shipping documents – Manifests, LDRs, inventory sheets, labels & markings
• Organize batteries – segregate by type, tape and package
• Collect and package lightbulbs for disposal
• Assist with reporting requirements and compliance
• Unload inbound trucks with supplies and load outbound trucks with drums or other containers of hazardous, non-hazardous and universal wastes
• Ensure accuracy of inbound and outbound shipping documents by correctly counting containers removed from our added to trucks
• Complete paperwork legibly, accurately, and in a timely manner
• Follow all Health & Safety/Job Safety Analysis (JSA's) procedures as outlined in Clean Earth procedures and policies
• Maintaining inventory and storage of hazardous materials in accordance with appropriate regulations, customer policies, practices and procedures and Clean Earth policies, practices, and procedures
• Segregate and package material for transport along with completion of required paperwork in accordance with appropriate regulations and Customer/Clean Earth policies, practices, and procedures

Basic Qualifications

• Perform other reasonably related tasks as assigned by management
• Have a HS Diploma or GED
• Ability to wear personal protection equipment (PPE) including eye protection, face shield, Tyvek coveralls, steel toe boots and respirator.
• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English

Physical Demands

Ability to work in all climate conditions both indoors and outdoors.

• Ability to work safely in proximity to moving vehicles, electrical current, chemicals, and other potential hazards.
• Must be willing and able to wear company-provided personal protective equipment that may include respirator, eye protection, Tyvek suit, protective footwear, etc.
• Ability to lift and carry up to 75 pounds on a regular basis.

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