Where a hazardous waste technician can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a hazardous waste technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Hazardous waste technicians dispose of materials that have been in contact with or are ignitable, corrosive, reactive, toxic or a combination of the aforementioned hazardous traits. They remove the waste from industrial facilities or households and transport them to a treatment facility to ensure they are treated and disposed of according to regulations. They may also advise on the proper treatment of hazardous waste, and aid in the clean-up of hazardous waste spills.
Also known as waste disposal compliance technician, waste disposal site compliance technician, toxic waste technician, hazardous waste disposal technician, hazardous waste treatment technician, hazardous waste removal technician, toxic waste disposal technician, toxic waste removal technician, waste sortation technician, toxic waste treatment technician, landfill site technician, waste treatment technician.
Technicians and associate professionals 53 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: decontamination worker, 64%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A hazardous waste technician needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- store contaminated materials handling and moving
- characteristics of waste services
- remove contaminated materials handling and moving
- hazardous materials transportation services
- remove contaminants handling and moving
- assess waste type handling and moving
- contamination exposure regulations services
- hazardous waste treatment services
- assess contamination information skills
- follow standards for machinery safety assisting and caring
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a hazardous waste technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- radiation protection technician 48% covered · difficulty 58.2
- decontamination worker 44% covered · difficulty 60.8
- asbestos abatement worker 41% covered · difficulty 63.8
- recycling worker 39% covered · difficulty 65.7
- sorter labourer 38% covered · difficulty 66.6
- hazardous materials inspector 36% covered · difficulty 68.1
- hazardous waste inspector 30% covered · difficulty 72.8
- liquid waste treatment plant operator 30% covered · difficulty 72.5
- refuse collector 25% covered · difficulty 76.1
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Hazardous waste technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a hazardous waste technician’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.