**Site Chemist**
**Brownhills, WS8**
**Full Time Permanent Position**
**Rotating shifts - Earlies, Nights and Afternoons - 06:00-15:00, 22:00-06:00 and 13:00-22:00**
**£26,000 annual salary**
Our client are looking for a 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)
* Ensuring all appropriate paperwork has been completed correctly and copies are held on site and with hauliers
* Responsible for the completion of waste safety checks to allow acceptance to site, storage safety and processing and/or onwards transfer
* Responsible for the completion of regular sampling of received waste to then further supply to internal laboratory for analysis
* Ensuring incoming waste is inspected to BAT requirements in Sector Guidance Note 5.06
* Ensuring waste is routed such that costs are minimised whilst maintaining legality and compliance
* Waste acceptance is recorded using the SAP system
* Non-Conformances are recorded using the SAP system, detailing all relevant information
* Ensuring paperwork is passed through for scanning within 48 hours of arrival
* Ensuring all waste is being appropriately stored in line with Sector Guidance and Permits
* Ensuring all waste is labelled correctly with all relevant information
* Processing of waste as required to include bulking, sorting, segregating, listing and re-packing of wastes
* Provide technical support to other members of staff on site
* Complete relevant outgoing paperwork
* Act as a site first aider (once trained)
* To maintain a clean and tidy work area completing housekeeping
* To assist other teams when required
* To perform other duties as reasonably required by the business
Generic Duties:
* Additional duties as requested by senior management in line with the capabilities of the role holder
* Support and contribute to Red Industries Group 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 well being 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 RED employees (visitors, third parties and contractors) confirm to the Health and Safety Policy including using the correct Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
* Raise a Corrective Action Report for any concern or improvement opportunity
* Compliance with all energy saving activities such as switching off lights and other equipment when not in use; switching photocopiers to standby mode, setting the thermostat at right setting; closing windows/doors when heating is on; when using, kettles fill up to what is required; and using hot water economically
* Compliance with water saving activities such as: turning off taps properly and reporting dripping taps and water leaks to Supervisor or Manager
**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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