Mobile Chemist

TRADEBE; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 29,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Pension

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Tradebe Environmental Services is seeking a Mobile Technical Services Chemist to coordinate hazardous waste collections from client facilities across the region. You will work with a degree in Chemistry, hold a valid UK driving licence, and be willing to visit client sites, often on tight timeframes.

The role emphasizes practical waste handling, documentation, and compliance with current UK legislation, plus opportunities to engage with customers and develop logistics solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum HNC in Chemistry or related discipline.
• Experience handling hazardous waste and packing for transport/disposal.
• Ability to work autonomously and meet tight deadlines.
• Proficiency with standard computer applications.
• Valid EU driving license for at least two years.

Responsibilities

• Organise hazardous waste collections from client sites and deliver to waste transfer sites.
• Maintain packing materials on site and ensure compliance with health and safety.
• Assess, segregate, label and pack waste with documentation per UK legislation.
• Produce and maintain lists of hazardous waste for collection and disposal.
• Load waste onto transport and drive to disposal site; assist with off-loading.
• Conduct risk assessments at client sites.
• Advise waste producers to maintain well-managed waste stores.

Skills

Hazardous waste handling

Customer relationship development

Computer literacy

Autonomous work style

EU driving licence (2+ years)

Education

HNC in Chemistry or related discipline

Job description

Tradebe is a group of industrial businesses with the commitment of creating a more sustainable planet and making significant contributions to human wellbeing. In the UK, we are leaders focused on recycling, energy recovery and circular economy, managing all different environmental liabilities in a sustainable way.

What will you do? Make an impact!

The Mobile Technical Services Chemist will be responsible for the organisation and coordination of hazardous waste collections from customer facilities, as required, across the region.

The ideal candidate will be degree educated (in Chemistry, or a closely aigned subject), possess a valid UK Drivers Licence and be willing to attend client sites across the Region. They must be able to work to strict time constraints, use their own initiative and display good commercial awareness with customers.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Organising collections from client’s sites and delivering to waste transfer site for disposal.
• Maintain provision of packing materials on site.
• Ensure all relevant legislation required is adhered to and compliance with Health & Safety policies and procedures ensuring all requirements required are met on client sites and at waste receipt/disposal sites.
• Technically assess, segregate, label and pack waste on client’s site with documentation compliant to current UK legislation.
• Compile and maintain list of hazardous waste needing collection and disposal producing required documentation and ensure compliance with current legislation.
• Collection and loading waste onto transport vehicle with the aid of material handling equipment making it safe and suitable for transportation, safely driving company vehicle to the hazardous waste site for disposal when on the premises make for safe and efficient off-loading.
• Risk Assessments at client sites.
• Provide advice and support to the waste producers so that the responsibility of a well maintained waste store is shared.

Do you have what it takes?

• Educated to minimum HNC level in Chemistry or other related discipline.
• Technically competent in the handling of hazardous waste.
• Experience of packing hazardous waste for transportation and disposal.
• Computer literate.
• Maintaining and developing relationships with potential and existing customers, identifying sales opportunities and leads.
• Hard worker self-motivated, enthusiastic, capable of working autonomously with limited supervision and a willingness to learn new skills.
• Holder of a EU driving licence for at least two years.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary - up to £32,000
• Annual bonus
• Contributory Pension
• Flexible benefits (access to our benefits platform for discounts and cash back on shopping purchases, gyms and leisure activities, cycle to work scheme and dedicated wellbeing centre)

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