Waste Stream Coordinator

The Waste Stream Coordinator at Intermountain Health is responsible for managing waste reduction, reuse, and recycling efforts across facilities. This role involves analyzing waste streams, managing daily waste escalations, and collaborating with various stakeholders. The position offers a flexible hybrid work schedule, combining fieldwork and remote work. Candidates should have relevant experience in waste management and strong communication skills.
Job Description

The Environmental Waste Coordinator is responsible for identifying opportunities to sustainably reduce, reuse, and recycle waste throughout their designated Intermountain Health facilities by analyzing and measuring all waste streams. Responsible to manage daily waste escalations for municipal solid waste, recycling, regulated medical waste, confidential document, and pharmaceutical waste. Implement new and changing waste stream programs incorporating people, planet, profit.

Work Schedule
• Full Time, 40 hours per week
• Work Schedule: Monday-Friday and on-call weekends
• Flexible hybrid work schedule with half the time in the field and half working from home
• Benefits Eligible: Yes; Medical, Dental, Vision, Education Assistance. Click here for more details

Essential Functions
• Collaborate with Environmental Service leaders for opportunities to reduce, reuse, and recycle waste
• Manage hauler relationships, service frequency, invoicing, and data to meet organization goals
• Proactively interact with internal customers, vendors, and municipalities to optimize compliance, operations, and contract performance
• Travel in company vehicle to designated sites to audit waste containers to keep the program sustainable and compliant
• Coordinates projects and programs that promote safety, collaboration, and teamwork among employees and stakeholders
• Educate and answer employees waste related questions and concerns as the subject matter expert

Skills
• Interpersonal Communication
• Customer Service
• Waste Management
• Detailed-Oriented
• Working Independently
• Organizing
• Collaboration
• Time management
• Collaboration
• Microsoft Word

Qualifications
• 3 years of healthcare environment or waste related experience
• Demonstrated strong communication and the ability to apply influencing practices across a varying range of personnel
• Demonstrated customer service experience
• Proven ability to multi-task and manage both small and large-scale project management projects
• Ability to work independently and be a self-starter with proven experience in problem solving
• Proven organizational skills including the ability to be detail-oriented
• Ability to use a personal phone continuously for work purposes
• Bachelor’s degree in Sustainability, Environmental Science, or a related field (preferred)
• Ability to understand a waste invoice, measure volume, and recommend reduction opportunities from analogy (preferred)
• Strong knowledge of State and Federal USDOT, NIOSH, OSHA, and Joint Commission regulations related to waste and/or healthcare (preferred)

Physical Requirements

Physical Requirements
• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles

Location:

Vine Street Office Building

Work City

Murray

Work State

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$29.66 - $46.72

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

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Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

All positions subject to close without notice.