**Senior Site Chemist**
**Brownhills, WS8**
**Full Time Permanent Position**
**£26,000 annual salary**
Our client are looking for a Senior Site Chemist to join their team at their depot in Brownhills. They are an ambitious company and every single member of their team is a critical part of making the company a success.
**Main Duties:**
* Ensuring all incoming consignments of wastes have appropriate paperwork (Consignment Note/Duty of Care) completed correctly and copies are held on site and are passed back to the hauliers
* Ensure incoming waste is inspected to BAT requirements in Sector Guidance Note 5.06
* If waste does not match pre-acceptance information Non-Conformance Procedure is followed and a Non-Conformance is raised with supporting evidence (photos, weighbridge tickets)
* Ensure paperwork accompanying any incoming loads is appropriately scanned and saved in database
folder under the loads unique reference number and consignment note number for auditing purposes
* Work to 48-hour KPI for incoming loads to be accepted and associated paperwork passed over for post acceptance input onto Database system
* Ensure waste is being appropriately stored inline with Sector Guidance Note 5.06, the sites
* Environmental Permit and to HSG51 The Storage of Flammable Liquids in Containers, HSG 71 Chemical Warehousing: The Storage of Packaged Dangerous Substances
* Ensure all waste is labelled correctly with label appropriately visible when it enters storage bay
* Sampling of accepted waste to supply to internal laboratory for further analysis or to pass on to suppliers
to confirm suitability for acceptance
* Generation of IPOs in line with the IPO Procedure
* Promote a positive Health and Safety driven environment reporting near misses on Active at a KPI of 1 per month and rectifying any potential concerns for Health and Safety readily
**Generic Duties:**
* Support and contribute to the companies overall objectives and aims, in line with the role holders experience, and competence
* Support and contribute to all aspects of good safety and health, daily awareness of safety issues and wellbeing awareness
* Fully responsible for your own and others health and safety
* Ensure all incidents, observations and concerns are reported through an escalation process; solutions are identified and actions, in line with Company policy
* Ensure ideas for the improvement of safety are listened to and acted upon, involving the Health and Safety representatives and HR Management if necessary
* Ensure non employees (visitors, third parties and contractors) confirm to the Health and Safety Policy including using the correct Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
* Compliance with water saving activities such as: turning off taps properly and reporting dripping taps and water leaks to Supervisor or Manager
* Compliance with our reduction in pollution activities, where possible reducing usage, and reusing or recycling waste; and handling all chemicals as per COSHH sheets; complying with safety rules in relation to minor spills (eg. soak up and report to manager) and major spills (eg. immediately report to a manager)
* Compliance with emissions goals when driving company vehicles or otherwise driving on company business, do so in an economical manner i.e. choosing the shortest route to a destination where possible, ensuring that vehicles are properly maintained, driving in a non-aggressive manner and always within the
speed limit
**Candidate Requirements:**
* HNC or Degree Level Qualification in Chemistry or a similar related field
* Experience of the Waste Industry is desirable
* SAP experience is desirable
* Competent Microsoft Office user, in particular Excel
**Person Specification:**
* Willingness to work in outdoor conditions in a hazardous chemical environment undertaking a manual/hands on approach
* A natural leader of processes
* Communicates well at all levels including executive level
* Makes decisions based on data, information and evidence
* Able to drive team performance and improve functional knowledge of the team through knowledge sharing
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