Position Purpose:
Performs duties required to prepare hazardous waste materials for incineration in a safe and efficient manner; breaks down and extracts material from various containers and repackages per process plan for feeding into the incinerator.
Primary Duties /Responsibilities:
- Assemble boxes and stage all necessary materials for processing and repackaging waste into charge boxes for incinerator.
- Suit up with proper personal protection equipment and other necessary equipment for environmental protection.
- Break down and extract waste materials (including hard solids that may require jackhammer) from various vendor containers and dumps into mixing pan.
- Process materials into various combinations of solids, mixes and/or slurries and repackages into charge boxes per process/plan; weighs all charges to meet, process, plan specifications.
- Record all material processed to maintain in-process inventory data using electronic scanning devices.
- Shrink-wrap charges; move to incinerator dock for burning.
- Consolidate material from drums into roll-off containers for incineration.
- Reclaim vendor drums for recycling and crush drums that are not re-usable.
- Dump waste hoppers and clean process area and maintain cleanliness around department.
- Change out air supply banks (provides clean air source for personal protective suits) as required.
- Maintain a complete inventory of personal protection equipment and other department supplies.
- Communicate with all leadmen and on-coming shift crews as required.
- Other duties as assigned.