Job title: Waste Technician - Kenai/Cook Inlet
Duration: Initial 1-yea contract
Schedule: 5/40 schedule with overtime
Location: Kenai/Cook Inlet, Alaska, United States
An exciting opportunity is available for a Waste Technician - Kenai/Cook Inlet to join an environmental team supporting day-to-day hazardous and solid waste management across Kenai and Cook Inlet locations. The Waste Technician - Kenai/Cook Inlet will play a key role in waste handling, packaging, transportation, compliance inspections, and environmental stewardship within an operational field environment. This Waste Technician - Kenai/Cook Inlet position offers the chance to work closely with operations, drilling, and projects teams while contributing to regulatory compliance and effective environmental management systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage, transport, and package hazardous and solid waste across Kenai and Cook Inlet facilities
- Inspect Satellite Accumulation Areas and Universal Accumulation Areas
- Provide guidance to field personnel on waste management and environmental matters
- Coordinate with operations, drilling, and projects teams to support proper waste disposal and environmental review
- Support field environmental specialists with logging, processing, and packaging of waste
- Assist during internal and external audits and inspections
- Provide cover for field environmental specialists as needed
- Support compliance-related environmental activities in the field
- Assist with operational control development, task system updates, and procedure reviews
- Help maintain environmental records, files, programs, and regulatory signage
- Operate equipment such as forklifts, pneumatic machinery, and hand tools where required
- Carry out additional duties assigned by management
Required Education:
- High School diploma or equivalent
Required Experience:
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with Resource Conservation and Recovery Act regulations and waste management issues
- Experience supporting hazardous and solid waste management in a field-based environment
- Experience working with compliance-related environmental processes and inspections
Required Skills:
- Strong understanding of hazardous waste handling, transportation, and packaging
- Ability to build effective working relationships across teams and departments
- Strong administrative and organizational skills
- Ability to support environmental documentation and records control
- Ability to work in varying temperature conditions while using personal protective equipment
- Ability to move a full 55-gallon drum using a drum dolly in and out of a truck
Required Certifications:
- Valid Driver’s License
Preferred Qualifications:
- Hazard Communication training
- Current 40 Hour Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) Certification
- Current Department of Transportation (DOT) Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) Certification
- RCRA Regulations Training
This Waste Technician - Kenai/Cook Inlet role is ideal for candidates with hands-on environmental compliance experience who are looking to expand their impact in a technical field position. The Waste Technician - Kenai/Cook Inlet offers exposure to operational, drilling, and project teams while supporting high standards of environmental performance. Candidates seeking a practical and compliance-focused Waste Technician - Kenai/Cook Inlet opportunity in Alaska are encouraged to apply.
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