Overview
Job Description: Chemist - Hazardous Treatment & Transfer
Salary: up to £30,740 per annum DOE
Location - Wednesbury Hazardous Waste Facility (WS10 7NR)
Responsibilities
* Plan and prioritise daily operations, adapting to service demands for safe, efficient, and compliant performance.
* Lead by example to strengthen health, safety, and environmental culture.
* Ensure secure waste management, from entry to disposal, minimising costs while meeting company and customer requirements.
* Maintain compliance, ensuring inputs and outputs meet regulatory standards while driving cost control and efficiency.
* Analyse sales samples, advise on treatment options, and provide customer quotations.
* Manage stock and inventory of waste and consumables within budgeted costs.
* Uphold high housekeeping standards and enforce company policies and procedures.
* Work closely with Transport to manage inputs/outputs, ensuring compliance and customer SLA fulfilment.
Qualifications
* Experience as a Chemist in a Hazardous Waste Management business or chemical/manufacturing industry.
* Minimum of a HNC Chemistry Qualification.
* Hazardous Treatment & Transfer CoTC is desirable however not essential.
* Knowledge & understanding of the requirements of working within a time critical hazardous waste processing environment would be ideal.
* Comprehensive understanding of chemical process safety
* Analytical with the ability to measure & monitor data and take appropriate action.
* Organised with the ability to simplify complex issues.
* Willingness to travel within the UK for business meetings and project work at other locations.
Benefits
* Biffa - we're changing the way people think about waste
* Competitive salary.
* Ongoing career development, training and coaching - Because if you don't grow, we don't grow.
* Generous pension scheme.
* Retail and leisure discounts.
* Holiday and travel discounts.
* Plus much more
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