Aerotek currently has a field technician position within the environmental consulting company currently available in the Western Suburbs of Chicago. This is a good match for a recent graduate of the NRES B.S. program.
Responsibilities:
- Drive to client sites (using company vehicle) with team members to set up and perform air emissions testing. Clients are typically heavy industrial, and located throughout the Midwest.
- Equipment maintenance and calibrations, assembly, operation and repair of emissions testing equipment.
- Load equipment for transportation, set-up equipment at the test site and demobilize equipment when testing is complete.
- Drive company vehicle to job sites; transport equipment.
- Assist engineers in air quality testing procedures.
- Utilize programs to analyze, evaluate, and monitor process and point source emissions for commercial, industrial, and utility operations.
- Contribute positively to health, safety, environmental and quality programs by performing work safely and adhering to all safety standards and protocols.
This is a heavy field-based role, and is primarily physical labor/grunt work for the Test Technician position. Essentially, they are traveling to client sites to help move around and set up the emissions testing equipment, which involves working at heights. If someone wants to work in an office or lab, probably not the best fit.
This company works with heavy industrial clients (power plants, refineries, manufacturing plants, etc.) to gather their emissions output and see if the client is in compliance with the EPA’s standards & regulations, as well as their own company standards.
Travel:
Varying weekly travel (Monday-Friday) to client sites (overnight stay) required. Travel time is paid for, hotel room covered by the company, $47 per diem for each day spent working remote.
Weekend travel is rare, but need to be open to it. If they do work on a weekend, it’s usually just traveling to, or back from a job site.
Will use company vehicle for travel and always heading out in a team.
Heights:
Position requires working at heights from 100ft-400ft to run testing on smoke stacks. They will get up the stack with either a series of ladders, stair sets, or industrial elevator built into the stack. All safety precautions are utilized (harness if/when needed for climbing).
The position is listed on Handshake (the new system Illinois Career Services is using; request an account at http://handshake.illinois.edu/).
