HSE Yard Technician

Job Description

Job Description

Position Summary:

The HSE Yard Specialist supports the Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) department by keeping the yard, shops, and surrounding facilities clean, organized, safe, and compliant. This role performs daily housekeeping, safety equipment inspections, chemical container consolidation, and general grounds and facility upkeep. It also provides weekly support for waste handling, manifests, spill response, and training logistics.

Daily Duties

• Walk the yard and pick up trash.
• Maintain housekeeping in all the shops, including:
• Clean the ground below tanks
• Disposing of plant trash
• Organize shelving
• Inspect all eye wash stations.
• Inspect all fire extinguishers.
• Help combine partial chemical totes and drums into full chemical totes and drums.
• Spray wash bay water on the grounds to keep dust down.
• Assist with cutting up unusable plastic totes and containments for plastic roll-off bins.
• Assist with any grounds keeping needs, including:
• Weed control
• Shoveling and salting sidewalks during winter months
• Pumping accumulated ground water into totes during rainfall events
• Filling potholes
• Grading the yard as needed
• Performing minor facility repairs
• Identify container labeling issues and correct as necessary.

Weekly Duties

• Clean out the wash bay.
• Assist with charging SDS tablets.
• Assist HSE with hazardous and non-hazardous waste pickups and sign manifests when needed.
• Load the soil roll-off bin when applicable.
• Assist in cleaning up spills when applicable.
• Order caliche and dirt as needed for spill response.
• Assist with keeping a minimum 20’ fire lane from the main gate to the back.

Other duties as assigned by the HSE Director.

• High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED) required.
• Must be able to speak, read, and write English.
• Logical and practical thinker.
• Training both hands-on and in a classroom experience helpful.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license.
• Equipment experience preferred, i.e. forklift and skid steer

• Computer Skills: Have basic computer skills. Efficiently navigate a web browser, follow online instructions, type and use a mouse.
• Customer Service Skills: Meet internal and external commitments, respond promptly to customer needs, and solicit customer feedback to improve service.
• Work Ethic: Be dependable, trustworthy, truthful, and credible in the workplace. Display a sincere desire to provide service or assistance, follow instructions, and take responsibility for own actions. Show a commitment to doing the best job possible.
• Physical Abilities: Lift and carry 50 pounds in various packaging. Tip and move 55-gallon drums, weighing up to 600 pounds, with the use of a drum dolly.
• Read products and chemical names
• Detailed oriented. Must be able to proofread documents.

• Computer Skills : Have basic computer skills. Efficiently navigate a web browser, follow online instructions, type and use a mouse.
• Customer Service Skills: Meet internal and external commitments, respond promptly to customer needs, and solicit customer feedback to improve service.
• Work Ethic: Be dependable, trustworthy, truthful, and credible in the workplace. Display a sincere desire to provide service or assistance, follow instructions, and take responsibility for own actions. Show a commitment to doing the best job possible.
• Physical Abilities: Lift and carry 50 pounds in various packaging. Tip and move 55-gallon drums, weighing up to 600 pounds, with the use of a drum dolly.
• Read products and chemical names
• Detailed oriented. Must be able to proofread documents.

• Work is performed primarily outdoors in the yard and in shop areas, in all weather conditions, including heat, cold, rain, wind, and dust.
• Frequent walking, standing, bending, stooping, kneeling, and climbing.
• Use of hand tools and equipment such as shovels, pumps, and cutting tools.
• Exposure to chemicals, waste materials, and spill response activities; appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is required at all times.
• Occasional overtime or weekend work may be required based on operational needs and weather events.

All employees of Jacam Chemical Company 2013, LLC, and its subsidiaries, are required to adhere to the following:

·         Comply with all Federal, State and Local laws

·         Have the ability to fluently read, write and speak in English

·         Adhere to guidelines, policies and procedures as described in the Jacam handbook

·         Adhere to Jacam’s Drug and Alcohol policy and agree to submit to random drug testing as a condition of employment

***This company reserves the right to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in any way the company desires This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties, including essential duties, to be performed by the employee occupying this position. THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IS NOT AN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE. THE COMPANY REMAINS AN “AT-WILL” EMPLOYER. Qualified employees who require reasonable accommodations to perform the essential functions of the position should notify the Human Resources Director. ***