Your impact
Responsibilities:
- Lead and support safety operations at the site including acting as owner of standard operating procedures
- Be a health and safety champion
- Oversee or perform field work tasks under minimal to no supervision such as subcontractor oversight, groundwater sampling, equipment inspections, and compliance inspections
- Be mechanically-inclined: May include routine set-up, assembly, installation, and/or minor troubleshooting or simple repairs of remediation equipment, as directed
- Participate in routine conference calls:
- Contribute ideas/ insights using site and system specific knowledge
- Assist with scheduling and coordination for field maintenance and routine sampling activities
- Provide clear field documentation utilizing inspection sheets, self-assessments, quarterly reports, etc.
- Electronic data collection: Input field data into tablets (i.e. iPad) in the field
- Work schedule: Monday through Friday (40-hours)/ Work begins by 8am each day + Every third weekend (half days Friday-Sunday).
Here's what you'll need
- 2-5 years equivalent experience
- Experience working within chemical/ industrial facilities
- Ability to work and communicate within a team structure is critical; must have strong communication skills
- Computer skills including the use of Microsoft Office suite of products
- 40-hr HAZWOPER certification or ability to obtain
- Be physically fit to perform fieldwork within industrial facilities up to 90% of the time, and wear a half-face, full-face, and/or supplied-air respirator, when required
- A valid driver’s license with no major infractions
- Be able to participate in a random drug testing program, including hair follicle samples
- TWIC (Transportation Worker Identification Credential) or ability to obtain and maintain
Ideally, You’ll Also Have:
- Associate degree or 2 years of formal technical training.
- Current residence in the New Orleans area or willingness to relocate (relocation assistance is not offered for this position)
- Experience with sampling groundwater and exposure to or willingness to train on sampling other environmental medium (soil, waste, soil gas, air, and surface water)
- Experience with installation, operation, and/or maintenance of remediation technologies, or at a minimum, willingness to learn
- Subcontractor oversight experience.
- Ability to lift and carry up to 50-pounds
- Ability to communicate effectively; verbally, in writing, and work collaboratively with internal team members and client/facility stakeholders
- Ability to follow written procedures with several steps
The physical and environmental demands required to perform the essential duties of this position include standing, walking, sitting, coordination, balance, and agility demands, which may include the ability to stoop, kneel, squat, grasp, reach, perform repetitive hand movements. Additional demands may involve a specific level of dexterity, grip strength, climbing and cardiorespiratory demands. The work areas may be indoors, outdoors, have loud noise, active machinery, high pressure fluid systems, electrical equipment, heights and depths, fumes, air borne particles, noxious gases, and chemicals. The use of appropriate safety equipment will be mandatory in these areas to prevent hazardous exposures.
