Description
This position is responsible for leading, developing and growing a safe, efficient, and profitable hazardous and radioactive waste facility. This is a salaried, exempt position.
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Hire, Mentor, Challenge, and Retain facility staff
- Set Challenging Facility and Personnel Goals, hold staff accountable for results
- Direct operations activities of the facility to achieve budget and profitability goals.
- Ensure compliance with safety and environmental regulations, and internal quality assurance procedures. Ensure compliance with Permit and licenses).
- Maintain effective relationships with regulatory agencies.
- Monitor and support all sales and customer relations.
- Ascertain employee training needs and development.
- Maintain an accident-free environment.
- Control expenses and budget to ensure profitability; approve all purchases and expenses internally up to $25,000; approve and sign monthly and quarterly financial reports.
- Support strategic planning.
- Manage up to 60 employees; approve timesheets for exempt employees.
- Travel as required.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Proven Leadership, Teamwork, and Communications Skills
- Needs broad knowledge and experience in RCRA and TSCA regulations, radiation protection, OSHA standards and regulations with a minimum of 5 years of practical experience in the radioactive waste industry. Radiological Safety Training: 24hr Hazardous Materials Training required.
- Need a high level of planning and organizational skills.
- Must be able to lead and motivate employees.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Special training required: Rad Worker and RCRA training.
- Certifications: OSHA Hazwoper TSD Worker.
- B.S. degree in Chemistry or Engineering, or B.A. degree in Business Administration or equivalent work experience.
Will work in an office-type environment approximately 60% of the day, other 40% being in industrial-type facility where there is potential for exposure to radiation, noise, dust, and hot and cold temperatures. Sitting, walking, and walking on uneven surfaces, and occasionally lifting and/or climbing with or without reasonable accommodation is a daily requirement with this position.