Distillation Lead

Veolia in North America is the top-ranked environmental company in the United States for three consecutive years, and the country’s largest private water operator and technology provider as well as hazardous waste and pollution treatment leader. It offers a full spectrum of water, waste, and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. Veolia helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Veolia has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across North America.

Position Purpose:

Responsible for overseeing the processing a variety of bulk and liquid waste through the operation of thin film evaporators and pot stills resulting in the best possible recovery of customers’ hazardous waste materials in accordance with permit regulations pertaining to air emissions or gallons per hour (GPH) to ensure that the end product meets the customer specifications. Trains all distillation operators in the performance of their duties and provides guidance and counseling on existing and/or new recovery techniques.

Primary Duties /Responsibilities: 

• Schedule and coordinator the run of waste materials on the distillation unit.
• Maintain logs and data on charge and/or discharge pot stills pertaining to appropriate gallon amounts of liquid to run product to customer’s specifications. 
• Supervise compatibility testing on a variety of hazardous materials to be mixed for recovery to insure that mixtures are in compliance with recovery specifications. 
• Maintain a schedule of clean tank recovery samples and insure routing to laboratory along with appropriate paperwork to ascertain the quality of recovery.  
• Supervise loading, unloading, and sampling of bulk tankers and/or drums to ascertain accuracy of hazardous waste contents prior to applying the recovery process.   
• Train newly hired distillation operators in the performance of their daily responsibilities and duties and provide guidance, as necessary.
• Ability to perform the Distillation Operator I & II job duties and responsibilities.
• Perform Distillation operations as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education / Experience / Background: 

• High School diploma or General Educational Development (GED) required
• Prior work experience as a Distillation Operator I & II

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities: 

• Strong team player
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Time management: the ability to organize and manage multiple deadlines
• Strong customer orientation
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills

Required Certification / Licenses / Training: 

• 40-Hour HAZWOPER training

Hourly Pay Range: Minimum of $32 to a maximum of $35

Benefits: Veolia’s comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental, vision, life insurance, savings accounts, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteering and more. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement. Pay and benefits for employees represented by a union are outlined in their collective bargaining agreement.

Sick leave –  56 hours; Observed Holidays – 11 days; Vacation – 15 days

Eligible for up to  4% Annual Performance Bonus

Job posting is short term (e.g ., 6 months or less)

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. 

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.