Waste Processing Team Lead

Clean Earth is a leading provider of environmental services in the United States providing remediation, disposal, recycling, and beneficial reuse solutions for hazardous and non-hazardous waste, contaminated soil, and dredged material. Our vast portfolio of technologies and services touches nearly every industry that generates waste including energy, infrastructure, commercial, industrial, retail, and healthcare markets.

Every day our teams across the country take a hands-on, dedicated approach to recycling and beneficially reusing waste that would otherwise go into landfills. We value our employees as our most important asset, and this is reflected in many areas across our company including recently being named a 2024 Most Loved Workplace ®. We are committed to creating a positive work culture that fosters growth and development while ensuring the health and safety of our employees.

In addition to competitive pay, we also offer:

• Health benefits available Day 1
• 10+ paid holidays/year
• Free HAZWOPER training and certification
• Overtime opportunities
• Ability to be cross-trained into different roles

Under the guidance of the Waste Processing Supervisor, the Waste Processing Team Lead helps to oversee a team of environmental technicians that perform routine and frequent manual and heavy labor tasks to properly consolidate, treat, store, pack, transport and/or dispose of hazardous waste in accordance with environmentally responsible and cost-effective practices and Clean Earth policies, practices and procedures. The Waste Processing Team Lead will maintain records with accuracy and attention to detail and will need to be able to follow instruction and to work independently.

The Waste Processing Team Lead will help to train the environmental technicians to ensure they work compliantly and safely.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Segregate and package material for transport along with the completion of required paperwork in a legible, accurate, and time manner in accordance with appropriate regulations and Customer/Clean Earth policies, practices and procedures.
• Oversee large projects and jobs with ability to manage a team of technicians.
• Communicate schedule, distributes work to team, and assists team in performance of job duties to complete work in accordance with requirements and Clean Earth policies, practices and procedures.
• Trains technicians and operators on-the-job in equipment operation, service line processes and necessary paperwork. Provide training and coaching to employees as needed.
• Follow all Health & Safety and Job Safety Analysis procedures as outlined in Clean Earth’s procedures and policies.
• Operate fork trucks and other heavy equipment when properly training to move materials for storage, loading and offloading.
• Collect samples of inbound waste for laboratory analysis.
• Perform onsite testing of unknown materials according to Clean Earth’s policies, practices and procedures.
• Maintain records for DOT and State Officials as assigned.
• Assist in other areas of the location as directed including but not limited to occasional travel to customer sites; assistance with production scheduling; and support of staff training.
• Perform other reasonably related tasks as assigned by management.
• Required to wear company-provided personal protective equipment including eye protection, foot protection, hard hat, Tyvek coveralls, and respirator.
• Must be able to pass a DEA background check when relevant.
• Must be willing and able to abide by Clean Earth’s Core Values and Code of Conduct.

• High School Diploma
• Driver License with clean driving record
• 40-Hour Hazwoper with current 8-hour refresher (preferred)
• 2+ years of hazardous waste experience
• Must be clean shaven for respirator usage in the RCRA Part B facility

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ yearsin a hazardous waste field service environment
• Able to manage and oversee a large project/job with supervision of personnel.
• Must have knowledge of facility permit, DOT packaging requirements and exempts as well as expanded knowledge of waste routing and disposal, Hazardous Materials and OSHA Regulations
• Communicates effectively with internal and…