Environmental Technician

Are you looking for stable work as an Environmental Technician with benefits that provide financial security for you and your family? Aspiring to advance in your Environmental Technician career at a site that prides itself on employee safety? Searching for a company that prioritizes its employees' well-being and understands the importance of family time? If this speaks to you, then WM might be the place for your next career move.

Stable work and benefits that support you and your loved ones, a schedule that respects work life balance with your safety at the heart of everything we do and support for your future with training and development based on your unique career goals. That's what you get as an Environmental Technician at WM ? and more.

About us

WM is North America's leading provider of comprehensive waste management environmental services. We partner with our customers and the communities we serve to manage and reduce waste at each stage from collection to disposal, while recovering valuable resources and creating clean, renewable energy.

The pay and benefits you'll get as an Environmental Technician:

• Starting salary depending on experience
• Stable hours for your financial stability
• Access to a stock purchase plan
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage including dental, vision and prescription coverage.
• We are Committed to Growth: Annual Education Assistance Benefit available for team members
• Company-matched 401(k)
• Adoption assistance and parent support

These are just a few of our comprehensive benefits for an Environmental Technician. Whether you are planning on building or expanding your family or looking for the next step in your career ? WM is there, helping build the best and total you.

The hours and location you'll work in as an Environmental Technician with WM:

• Monday ? Friday every week
• 7:00am to 3:30pm
• No Weekends
• We're committed to offering you stable hours for the financial security and work life balance you need.
• The normal setting for this job is our Landfill Site in Waverly, VA

Those are the key details on pay and schedule ? now here's more on what you'll be doing as an Environmental Technician at WM.

I. Job Summary

Conducts basic tests and field investigations to obtain data for use by environmental, engineering, and scientific personnel in determining sources and methods of controlling pollutants in air, water, and soil.

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepares samples for analysis in accordance with established protocols.
• Conducts basic chemical and physical laboratory and field tests according to prescribed standards to determine characteristics or composition of solid, liquid, or gaseous materials and substances.
• Collects samples of gases from air emission points, and collects other air samples and meteorological data to assist in evaluation of atmospheric pollutants.
• Collects water samples from raw, semi processed or processed water, industrial waste water, or water from other sources to assess pollution problem.
• Collects soil, silt, mud, or sediment samples to determine chemical composition and nature of pollutants.
• Prepares samples for testing, records data, prepares summaries and charts for review, and develops a report detailing activities performed and results received.
• Sets monitoring equipment to provide flow of information.
• Installs, operates, and performs routine maintenance on gas and fluid flow systems, chemical reaction systems, mechanical equipment, and other test instrumentation.
• Assists with the installation of routine equipment and instrumentation.
• Operates fixed or mobile monitoring or data collection station.
• Conducts bacteriological or other tests related to research in environmental or pollution control activity.
• Audits properties of samples collected to identify physical evidence of environmental releases.

III. Qualifications

A. Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma or G.E.D,
• High School Diploma or G.E.D, plus additional or specialized training
• No experience zero to four years previous experience.

B. Preferred Qualifications

IV. Physical Requirements

If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click Apply.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran