Conveyor Operator

Veolia Environnement SA•Port Arthur, TX

13d•Onsite

About The Position

Veolia in North America is the top-ranked environmental company in the United States for three consecutive years, and the country’s largest private water operator and technology provider as well as hazardous waste and pollution treatment leader. It offers a full spectrum of water, waste, and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. Veolia helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Veolia has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across North America. Position Purpose: Process specialty feed streams that are unable to be processed in any other part of the facility in the natural state in which they were received. Feed drums, totes, and cylinders to the incinerator through direct inject nozzles to the kiln and secondary combustion chamber(SCC). Document and further code items that have been fed through the specialty feed boxes for final destruction and tracking.

Requirements

High School diploma or GED equivalent
No unsatisfactory work performance issues and must be qualified in current position (6) months or more
Currently holding or previously held a position which by definition of task and/or area required person to be trained to level of hazardous waste operator
Must be able to pass a respirator fit test
Must be able to perform the job requirements and pass a verbal and/or written skill/proficiency test for the position within a reasonable orientation/training period set by Supervisor.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
Good math aptitude.
40-Hour HAZWOPER training

Nice To Haves

Minimum one to two years process operations experience preferred
Minimum six months heavy equipment operations preferred

Responsibilities

Ability to perform all duties of a Specialty Feed Operator I.
Assist site mechanical department as well as outside contractors with the preventative maintenance, repair, or calibration of equipment and issue permits for these activities. Permits may include: Safe Work, HotWork, Line Break, and Confined Space Entry Permits
Perform Lock Out Tag Out of all specialty feed box equipment in preparation for repairs
Troubleshooting, flushing, unplugging, cleaning, repairing, and swapping of feed lines, pumps, nozzles, vent fans, flame arrestors, and boxes.
Tear down and decon feed pumps for repairs
Prepare equipment for start-up and shutdown scenarios
Verify chemical compatibility and reference Waste Information Profiles(WIP) or provided chemical reference material to ensure safe and reaction free processing of material
Utilize Nitrogen for box purging, inerting, pump operations, and line clearing
Utilize diesel and toluene for line flushing and clearing and maintain local inventory of flushing chemicals
Must be able to Operate both the Glovebox and Totebox
May include conveyor feed operation/roles.
Other duties as assigned.