Title:  Environmental Technician Lead

About Us:

Stericycle is a U.S. based business-to-business services company and leading provider of compliance-based solutions that protects people and brands, promotes health and well-being, and safeguards the environment. Since our founding over 30 years ago, we have grown from a small start-up in medical waste management into a leader across a range of increasingly complex and highly regulated arenas, serving healthcare organizations and commercial businesses of every size. Every day, we help our customers solve complex challenges by safely managing materials that could otherwise spread disease, contaminate the environment, or compromise one’s identity.

Join us on our mission to protect health and well-being in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way.

Position Purpose:

• Pay Rate Range: From $19.00/Hour to $22.50/Hour and it is based on the work experience and skills.  It is paid on the weekly basis and OT (overtime) is provided based on business needs and applicable after 40 hours per week. 
• Daily uniforms and working boots are provided free of charge.
• Work Schedule: Monday ~ Friday. The shift starts at 7:00am and the Lead Technician works around 9 hours per day. 
• Licencia de Conducir Categoria 8 or 9 + Licencia de Comision + HAZWOPER/HAZMAT + TWIC Card are highly desirable.  

Under limited direction directs, supports, and services assigned organizations requiring the processing and disposition of hazardous and non-hazardous waste materials. Acts in a professional and courteous manor, meeting all customers’ needs in regards to waste packaging, segregating, transporting, profiling, training and addressing other customer needs.

Key Job Activities:

•Conduct various activities in a hazardous/non hazardous waste facility including but not limited to: container inspections, switching out of full containers, sorting pharmaceutical waste while complying to federal, state, and local rules and regulations, also consulting with the organization’s staff for best practices.
•Manifest and coordinate the transport of waste safely and according to all federal, state, and local rules and regulations. Schedule waste pickup. Provide work direction to lower level staff.
•Coordinate the identification, segregation, and packaging of chemicals according to DOT & EPA guidelines.
•May facilitate site visits and meetings from regulatory agencies and industry professionals. Promote staff training, conduct facility inspection audits and documentation/record keeping of program implementation.
•Acts as liaison in resolving issues/concerns for clients including, but not limited to, miscellaneous route inquiries, re-routes, request for extra pick-ups, request for change in pick-ups, and request for containers.
•Performs various regulatory compliance and safety tasks. Performs weekly inspections and maintains inspection records.
•Performs warehouse work related to receipt, shipment, storage, distribution, or delivery of waste materials. Loads, unloads, moves, or stores items according to delivery or routing documents, or supervisor instructions and performing general housekeeping duties.
•Perform customer surveys to assess service needs, rollout of program to new sites.
•Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Experience:

• High School Diploma and/or GED education equivalent to a Bachelor’s Degree related to waste management and/or chemical industries.  The ideal candidate will need to have two (2) or more years of experience as a lab pack technician, service specialist, and/or profiling technician.
• Demonstrates experience and some general knowledge of RCRA, EPA, HAZWOPER, and DOT Regulations as it relates to hazardous/non-hazardous waste management and logistics/transportation of those.
• Demonstrates good knowledge and proficiency of computers and Microsoft Office, EXCEL and Word and other applications. In addition, the ideal candidate would be bilingual in English and Spanish at advance level: to read, to write, and to speak both languages. 

Certifications and/or Licenses:

Benefits:

Stericycle currently offers its employees the option to participate in a full range of benefits, including a health care program which includes medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage, healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, an employee assistance program, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation and sick time, a 401(k) plan, and an employee stock purchase plan. Participation in some programs requires that employees be regularly scheduled to work a minimum number of hours and/or to have fulfilled a waiting period after they begin employment with Stericycle.

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Disclaimer:

The above description is meant to provide a summary of the nature and level of work being performed; it should not be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and requirements of the job. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, and it does not constitute any right or guarantee of employment condition. This position is open to people with disabilities. Stericycle will consider requests for workplace accommodations for protected physical or mental limitations in accordance with its human resources and risks prevention policies and local laws. To the extent permissible under local law, and consistent with business necessity, Stericycle reserves the right to modify the content formally or informally, either verbally or in writing, at any time with or without advance notice.