Chemistry/Environmental Technician #1036353
Job Description:

• If you're looking for a career that will provide a challenging work environment and many opportunities to learn, our company is the place for you. Join our team and become part of a company full of exciting opportunities.
• We help employees achieve their personal best by offering many opportunities that develop and enhance their skills for career advancement.

 
Areas of Responsibility Include:

• Laboratory safety
• Environmental sampling, testing, and reporting
• Potable water sampling, testing and reporting
• Waste water treatment
• Wet laboratory analysis and technique
• Fuel and oil sampling and analysis
• Daily water quality monitoring
• Ensuring equipment/instrumentation performance and reliability
• Customer service and good communication are essential in this position.
• Job activities will involve working with individuals from plant operations, maintenance and planning, engineering, environmental, analytical laboratory, and outside vendors.

 
Job Duties Include:

• Collect and analyze surface waters for reporting to EGLE.
• Comply with Environmental Regulations for drinking and surface water quality.
• Sample, analyze and process waste for proper disposal.
• Collect, calculate, and review data to prepare various reports (both internal and external).
• Calibrate field and laboratory instrumentation.
• Maintain and repair lab instrumentation, inline instrumentation, and equipment.
• Monitor processes and system status and take action to address issues.
• Adherence to a Quality Control and Assurance Program.
• Submit electronic work requests (notifications) for identified deficiencies on plant equipment.

 
Skills:

• Monitor, sample and ensure compliance with environmental regulations of the site's drinking and surface waters.
• This requires working outside in all weather conditions.
• Candidate will need to obtain waste treatment operator certifications and drinking water operator license.
• Sample, analyze and process various waste streams for proper disposal.
• Monitor and take corrective action in support of the site's make-up water production and boiler and feedwater chemistry specifications.
• Maintain and troubleshoot inline analyzers, electronic, electrical, mechanical, and other equipment for plant systems.
• Consults with supervisors, operators, and engineers to review assigned area needs, discuss problems, prioritize work, and provide technical expertise.
• Regularly interact with outside agencies, vendors and manufacturers.
• Support the 24 / 7 plant operations including weekend and holiday coverage.
• Regular attendance is expected.

 
Hours and Travel

• Meet travel requirements of the position.
• Work a flexible schedule, which may include evenings, weekends, holidays and overtime.
• Rotation of weekend and holiday duties and on call assignments.

 
Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to stand and walk.
• The employee is often required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Duties involve moving materials weighing up to 10 pounds on a regular basis such as pumps, valves, motors, gauges, other operating or lab equipment, books, paper, laptop computer, etc., and may require moving materials weighing up to 35 pounds.

 
Education:

• Associate degree in a scientific or technical field, or 48 scientific or technical credit hours as measured on a semester basis.

 
The following skills may set you apart from others:

• Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, Chemistry and other fields of Science or Mathematics.
• 1+ year of experience with NPDES, Storm Water, and RCRA waste management
• Waste Treatment Plant Operator Certification(s)
• 1+ year of experience performing maintenance, technical, and/or operational activities at a power plant or chemical processing plant.
• Familiarity with the thermodynamic steam cycle, power plant system components as well as environmental monitoring and regulatory compliance.
• Knowledge of analytical laboratory equipment and instrumentation, mechanical equipment (pumps, valves, etc.), and high quality water production (RO, ion exchange, filtration).
• Experience with SAP and Microsoft Excel

 
Additional Info:
 
At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra.  We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.
We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!
FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.
We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
 

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

 
Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!
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