Treatment Technician

Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc.; Gainesville (FL); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A waste management company in Gainesville, Florida is hiring for a position responsible for performing waste processing and treatment activities, particularly concerning radioactive materials. Candidates should have educational backgrounds in chemistry or chemical engineering, alongside necessary OSHA and radiation safety certifications. Attention to detail, teamwork, and communication skills are essential. This role involves heavy lifting and compliance with safety protocols pertaining to hazardous materials.

Qualifications

• Ability to successfully complete training and certification provided by Perma-Fix.
• 40-hour OSHA Hazwoper Certification with current 8-hr refresher.
• 16-hour radiation safety training with current 4-hour refresher.
• Annual respirator fit test qualified.

Responsibilities

• Perform regulatory compliance for waste processing.
• Maintain daily process logs and verify materials for QA/QC.
• Handle container operations such as palletizing and labeling.
• Recommend improvements to standard operating procedures.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Teamwork

Communication skills

Analytical evaluations

Ability to multitask

Education

College, vocational or job training in chemistry or chemical engineering

Tools

Industrial processing equipment

Job description

Non-Exempt - This position is responsible for performing waste processing and treatment activities for the nuclear waste segment at Perma-Fix of Florida treatment, storage, and disposal Facility (TSDF).

Duties

• Regulatory compliance.
• Waste processing and/or treatment in accordance established procedures.
• Initiation and maintenance of daily process logs.
• Verification of materials stored and processed for QA/QC.
• Container handling (palletizing; ringing, stacking and labeling).
• Daily processing activities may include working with the following:
  • Hazardous/non-hazardous organic and aqueous radioactive matrices
  • Hazardous and non- hazardous radioactive solids/sludge
  • Decommissioning of hazardous and non-hazardous radioactive lab packs
  • Mercury and other elemental heavy metals, asbestos, potential blood-borne pathogens, etc.
  • Various chemical reagents (organic, aqueous, oxidizers, acids, bases, etc.)
  • Industrial processing type equipment
• Recommend management action to improve standard operating procedures.
• Initiation of non-conformance, incident and near miss reporting.
• Identify and requisition processing supplies and reagents.
• Interacts with facility personnel to achieve departmental objectives.
• Department level quality assurance.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• College, vocational or job training in chemistry or chemical engineering.
• Ability to successfully complete training and certification provided by Perma-Fix.
• 40-hour OSHA Hazwoper Certification with current 8-hr refresher.
• 16-hour radiation safety training with current 4-hour refresher.
• Facility equipment operations level training.
• Facility waste operations training.
• Facility quality assurance program operations level training.
• Attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Personality conducive to teamwork.
• Ability to follow written and oral directives.
• Annual respirator fit test qualified and ability to function in all levels of personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Written and verbal communication skills.
• Displays professionalism.
• Ability to multitask.
• Capacity to apply analytical evaluations to assigned work.
• Ability to obtain Sit down, Counter-Balanced Lift Truck operator’s license.

Working Conditions

Heavy lifting, exposure to excessive noise during floor operations, ambient weather conditions / seasonal extremes of temperature, use of a particulate mask, air-purifying respirator; Tyvek, or other protective equipment required, working with radioactive and hazardous waste to include chemical reagents, use of industrial processing equipment and tools.