Waste Technician Team Lead
4 weeks ago
AET Group is currently seeking an experienced **Waste Technician Team Lead** to join our team and quickly step into a leadership position. This is a full-time, permanent role.
AET Group is a multi-disciplinary environmental consulting, auditing and scientific services company providing professional services to the built and natural environments in the following core service areas: air, compliance, building sciences, mitigation, GHG, waste, sustainability, audits, water, management systems, home flood protection and energy. Headquartered in Kitchener Ontario, AET provides services across Canada and the United States. AET is looking for dedicated, skilled, and knowledgeable people to complement our current team.
You will have the opportunity to contribute to our growth, working on diverse waste projects across Canada, including municipal and ICI waste studies and reduction strategies, material recovery facility commissioning, optimization and quality studies, litter studies, food waste studies, EPR and Circular Economy, and waste reduction planning.
**Duties and Responsibilities**:
- Lead and conduct waste studies (~85% of time) including:Project planning (e.g., assembling field log sheets, equipment, supplies, communicating with the project manager & audit team)
Lead waste sample collection (e.g., curbside residential waste collection, landfill waste collection, recycling collection), and sample sorting to characterize and determine garbage, recycling, and organic composition by material type.
Assess current waste trends and identify opportunities for waste reduction or diversion.
Responsible for carrying out work with accordance to project specifications and prescribed methodologies.
Work safely by following all health & safety protocols, including proper use of personal protective equipment.
- Support Project Lead with data entry, analysis & report writing (~10% of time).
- Administrative & Communication, and other duties from time to time (~5% of time).
**Qualifications**:
- 1-2 years experience conducting waste audits is a requirement, and experience leading waste audit teams is an asset.
- Degree or Diploma in Environmental Studies or related field with an interest in waste management is preferred.
- Driver’s license with clean driver’s abstract, access to a vehicle; comfortable driving pickup truck and pulling a cargo trailer is required.
- Must possess excellent oral, written, organizational and multitasking skills.
- Ability to work well in a team setting; experience leading a team is an asset.
- Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Must be punctual and dependable with a professional demeanor.
- Possess initiative, adaptability, flexibility, and a willingness to learn.
- MS Excel and MS Word knowledge and use is preferred.
**Competencies**:
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
**Physical Capabilities**:
- Regularly required to sit, stand, walk.
- Able to lift 20 kg.
- Regularly required to work outside in varying weather conditions.
- PPE requirements: half-mask respirator/mask, safety glasses, gloves, hard hat, safety footwear, coveralls, reflective vest - all provided by AET.
**About us**:
AET Group is an environmental consultancy firm committed to our ecological, financial, and social responsibilities, working together collaboratively to find innovative solutions that work and remembering that underneath it all, we’re human beings working with other human beings to make a difference both locally and globally.
Founded in 1998 with a focus on waste services, we have diversified over the past 25 years to provide environmental consulting, auditing, and scientific services to the built and natural environments in 12 core practice areas: air, compliance, building sciences, mitigation, GHG, waste, sustainability, audits, water, management systems, home flood protection and energy. Our emphasis at AET has been sustainable solutions - as a service to clients, throughout our own operations and day-to-day practices.
**Why AET?**
It is the AET team and company culture that sets us apart from other companies. AET strives to foster a culture of collaboration and respect, while providing a safe working environment and providing superior service. Employees at AET are highly motivated and value honesty, openness, and integrity, while displaying a strong commitment to the environment.
- Sustainability culture throughout company.
- Competitive comprehensive remuneration.
- Paid training and career development opportunities.
- Professional membership reimbursement.
- Savings and retirement plan; eligibility
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