Graduate Shift Chemist

With operations based here in Liverpool and established in 1980, the WasteCare Group now employs over 500 people based at 9 regional service centres and 8 recycling facilities throughout the UK. 

We collect and recycle over 200,000 tonnes of hazardous and difficult waste, on behalf of over 20,000 organisations annually throughout the UK. We’ve been recently listed in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 for companies with the fastest growing profit and we’re looking to set our sights even higher in 2022.

Our growth and success are due to our commitment to providing our clients with a first-class service combined with the highest environmental standards. 

As a private company, we are continually investing in innovative technology and sustainable growth. This has enabled us to combine a deep understanding of our clients’ requirements with a uniquely flexible service that can be readily tailored to any organisational requirement, within an evolving market and ever-changing regulation.

To drive our growth, we are always looking for the best talent to join our teams across all our divisions. We are currently looking for an experienced Site Chemist to join our team in Leeds.

The waste industry is highly regulated and complex, we set our standards higher than those mandated by legislation and embrace technology to improve service levels to our customers. We pride ourselves on transparency and simplicity, we are fair to our customers.

This is an opportunity with long term great personal development opportunities, we invest heavily in training and personal development as we want you to get to grips with the waste industry to push us further so we can constantly improve.

We’re a large business with a small business ethos and the role reflects this, so expect to be challenged and take on a wide variety of projects at any given time.

As part of our continual expansion, we now wish to recruit a graduate to the post of Shift Chemist, with the successful applicant expected to start during this October at our operations based in the Bootle area of Liverpool.

Main Responsibilities of the role 

• Responsible for sampling, analysis and mock treatment of all incoming wastes, bulk tanker and non-bulk, final disposal materials, and customer sample enquiries.
• Providing reaction plans for waste treatment in the plant
• Ensuring paperwork for incoming waste is compliant, the correct segregation and storage of hazardous waste, in line with all company procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Raising non-conformances and providing necessary information to allow these to be actioned.
• Working alongside site operatives to ensure that waste is processed, stored and transferred in a safe, compliant and timely manner. Assisting with the control of material flows through the plant and ensuring container stocks are maintained to avoid delays and backlogs
• To maintain effective record keeping and documentation, stock control system, production records and in-process records.
• This role requires some outdoor work in addition to lab based work with some manual handling. Occasionally you may be asked to help the operators in both the plant and site operations.

Carry out all tasks in line with all relevant permits, legislation and required 

Requirements

• To be considered for this role you must hold a chemistry degree or HNC
• Proven wet chemistry skills and analytical experience in a laboratory setting
• Flexibility to work a rotation shift pattern including weekend work

Desirable

• Experience within the environmental, waste or chemical industry would be an advantage but not necessarily essential to the right candidate.
• FLT licence
• ADR
• GCMS and ICP experience

Working hours

• Rotating shift patterns – TBC
• Will be required to work weekends on a rota basis
• Will be required to work additional hours as needed to cover the laboratory & provide chemist cover for other site within the company

Salary: £23-£25,000 pa

Please Note the post will be carried out on a shift rota pattern, you will be expected to work/rotate from working 6.00am to 2.00pm and 2.00pm to 10.00pm.

Applying - Please supply your CV in Word document format only and not a PDF file

Closing date for applications: 12.00pm on Monday 13th November  2023. 

We encourage applicants to apply as early as possible in the application window and we reserve the right to remove this advert before the stipulated closing date, shown above. 

Before making your application please review the quality of your CV, by visiting the Careers Studio, situated in the ground floor of the Foundation Building, University Square, located on the junction of Mount Pleasant & Brownlow Hill, where our Career Coaches will happily work with you, in preparing your CV - open Monday to Friday  10.00am to 5.00pm.