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Title: Site Chemist / Transfer Station Chemist
Location: Hertfordshire
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000
Term: Permanent
SRG are working with a leading waste management and recycling company who have a long and very successful history of supporting the UK chemical industry. They are now looking for a site chemist to join the team. This is a hands-on role within the waste industry, you will be checking and testing incoming loads, processing hazardous and non-hazardous waste, ensuring segregation and storage of hazardous waste meets requirements, labelling waste and completing documents on all incoming and outgoing chemical materials. This role would suit candidates with 2+ years' experience as a chemist on a hazardous waste transfer station.
Working Hours: 37.5 working hours per week, Monday to Friday, 24 days holiday + statutory bank holidays. Access to Rewards Gateway offering excellent discounts and cash back with many large retailers.
Role/Description
Receiving chemical waste on to site and ensure that per acceptance and acceptance of waste meets environmental requirements
Ensuring paperwork for incoming waste is compliant and correctly completed
Control waste streams through the plant/ transfer station to avoid delays and backlogs.
Immediate testing of incoming waste to ensure conformity with paperwork using test strips
Supervise, plan and prioritise the day to day activities of the Transfer Station Operatives
Further laboratory testing as needed for further analysis using techniques including flash point testing, pH testing, visual checks, odour, viscosity.
Working alongside site operatives to ensure that waste is processed, stored and transferred in a safe, compliant and timely manner
Bulking/re-packing of waste to achieve maximum profitability
Supporting other site chemists and operatives, ensuring all staff are working efficiently and collaboratively
Requirements
Minimum HND in Chemistry, or similar qualification with significant chemistry content
2+ years of recent experience in hazardous waste
Any of the following qualifications or experience are considered advantageous: COTC, WAMITAB, NEBOSH, IOSH
Willing to work outside in all weathers
Full right to work in the UK - There is no sponsorship available for this role
SRG is the UK's number one recruitment company specialising in the scientific, engineering, clinical, pharmaceutical, food/FMCG, energy & renewables, biotech, chemical and medical device sectors.
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