Environmental Specialist

This is a contract-to-hire position.

Job Summary:

·        Record and maintain all records for hazardous waste treatment and off site hazardous waste shipments

·        Physical operations in preparing and treating waste on site and lab packing hazardous waste shipments for off site disposal along with pumping, transferring, filtering and shipping wastewater

·        Preparing manifests and accepting hazardous waste from parent facility and ensuring compliance with regulations in physical, systematic transactions, preparation and treatment of waste received. 

·        Understanding company warehouse management system, making transactions, tracking and managing waste inventories

·        Maintaining the standardized operational procedures in accordance with environmental compliance and safety regulations

·        Assisting in new hire and annual training to environmental standard operating procedures

·        Providing assistance to Environmental Compliance Manager in creating and developing reports for annual forms, recording and maintaining data for waste and air permits

·        Filing air permit requirements such as daily inspections, fuels deliveries and testing logs

·        Weekly inspections of satellite, central waste accumulation areas and waste storage magazines

·        Updating themselves on the latest development regarding environmental safety, new laws implemented in federal, state, or local regulatory bodies under the environment protection act, and related program areas assigned to them

Environmental Compliance Duties + Responsibilities

·        Administration

·        Auditing

·        Coordination of Disposal of Waste

·        DCMA (Defense Contracts Management Agency), DOT, EPA, PADEP

·        Federal + State Government Compliance

·        Interaction with DSS, DoD, ATF

·        Investigation of Environmental issues

·        Permits + Licenses Maintenance

·        Routine Surveillance (Environmental issues)

·        Sampling Materials

·        Training

Job Requirement:

·        This job profile requires one to work with hazardous substances and continually come in contact with it, hence the candidates who are experienced with working in such an environment are preferred, as they are aware of risks involved in the work.

·        Apart from the educational qualification and experience, certain additional skills are required for carrying out the job responsibilities in this profile. Environmental specialists need to possess good verbal and written communication skills, technical writing skills, and critical reviewing skills for analysis and development of technical reports on a conducted research.

Education Requirements:

·        The basic qualification requirement for this job profile is a bachelor's degree in environmental science or in other relevant subjects like physical science, environmental engineering, etc. Apart from this, an environmental specialist must also have working knowledge of hazardous and waste materials found in the industrial environment, and some experience in evaluating and controlling the magnitude of hazards caused by these substances.

·        Courses in Environmental, Safety, Industrial / Manufacturing Engineering would be beneficial.

Training and Experience:

·        Minimum (3) years experience in safety/environmental position(s).

Experience with hazardous waste and environmental is desirable, but not required