(AFG-KANDAHAR) Environmental Supervisor

Job Summary

The Environmental Supervisor supervises a team of environmental and HAZMAT personnel on numerous sites throughout the area of responsibility.

Principal Accountabilities

(Typical duties include the following, although specific duties vary by assignment or contract.)

• Oversee the Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Materials Management Process for regional program sites.


• Organize and track daily environmental, hazardous materials and hazardous waste activities of the HAZMAT Department personnel in assigned region of responsibility.


• Supervise a team in the removal and disposal of hazardous materials and prepare worksite to ensure safety during removal.


• Assist as needed in decontamination operations.


• Train and mentor department personnel on the proper procedures to operate Hazardous Waste Accumulation and Storage Areas.


• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge & Skills

• Advanced knowledge of environmental, health and safety auditing programs, policies and procedures.


• Knowledge of pollution prevention concepts and practices and implementation strategies.


• Knowledge of federal and local government environmental, health and safety laws, regulations, policies and procedures.


• Ability to work effectively to promptly segregate, consolidate and neutralize excess hazardous materials.


• Knowledge and training of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) 40 CFR 265.16.


• Knowledge and training on the Department of Transportation (DOT) training for packagers in accordance with 49 CFR.


• Proficiency in Microsoft applications.


• Additional knowledge/skills may be required by assignment or contract

Experience & Education

• Associate’s degree in chemistry or a related field; two (2) years’ experience in related field can be substituted for each year of the two (2) years of college.


• Five (5) years’ or more environmental experience required including categorizing, consolidating and neutralizing hazardous materials.


• Forty (40) hours HAZWOPER certification and applicable annual 8-hour Refresher certification.


• Middle East, Department of Defense, or military experience preferred.


• Must have responder experience at the Federal (including US military), State or local level.


• Fire, HAZMAT, EMS and/or Law Enforcement backgrounds preferred.


• Additional experience/education may be required by assignment or contract.

Physical Requirements/Working Environment

• Must be able to lift/push/pull minimum of fifty (50) pounds and move five hundred (500) pounds wheeled equipment.


• Living and working conditions at the assignment location could be remote and uncomfortable.


• Work may be performed in a non-climate controlled facility; long hours, exposure to weather and hazardous conditions.


• Personnel should be aware of moving on short notice and under adverse conditions.

Travel

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Must have ability to obtain and maintain US security clearance at proper level

Primary Location: AFGHANISTAN-OCONUS-KANDAHAR

Job Posting: Aug 11, 2016, 1:52:42 PM

Unposting Date: Ongoing

Req ID: 1603009

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