Hazardous Waste Technician

City: Portland Location: 1106 - Recology Oregon Recovery - Central Inc. Subsidiary Name: Recology Oregon Recovery Inc. Role Under limited supervision, performs waste inspection to ensure hazardous waste compliance. Demonstrates understanding of a wide range of hazardous waste processes and procedures, including emergency situations, hospital loads, testing, categorizing, removal of hazardous material from the waste stream and storing of all hazardous waste, assisting H2W, processing oil, antifreeze, and batteries. Shift will be Wednesday-Sunday, 8am-5pm. Essential Responsibilities - Performs waste inspection to ensure hazardous waste compliance. Demonstrates understanding of a wide range of hazardous waste processes and procedures, including emergency situations, hospital loads, testing, categorizing, removal of hazardous material from the waste stream and storing of all hazardous waste, assisting H2W, processing oil, antifreeze, and batteries. - Provides reports on the amount of waste-oil, anti-freeze and car batteries that accumulate in the temporary storage bins. Transfers to appropriate storage area daily on an as-needed basis. - Answers a range of questions from customers, other employees, and Hazardous Materials Technicians about identifying and properly disposing varying types of hazardous waste. - Starts Emergency Response Team (ERT) standard operating procedure and stays within the confines of all written/applicable safety rules and procedures for each type of incident response. - Reviews all required paperwork (i.e., load inspection forms, Site Incident log). - Manages inventory and the contents of the Hazardous Material skids, including pressure cylinders, by transferring to the hazardous waste facility. - Provides operations support as needed. - Must be able to wear a full-face respirator and class “C” PPE. - Other duties as assigned Qualifications - Three years related compliance experience, including 40-hour hazardous waste certification, a