Hazardous Materials Removal Workers

People in this career often have these skills:

• Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

People in this career often know a lot about:

• Public Safety and Security - Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
• Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Education and Training - Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

People in this career often have talent in:

• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
• Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Control Precision - The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
• Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

• Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Category Flexibility - The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
• Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.

People in this career often do these activities:

• Prepare hazardous waste for processing or disposal.
• Assemble temporary equipment or structures.
• Inspect work sites to identify potential environmental or safety hazards.
• Record operational or environmental data.
• Decontaminate equipment or sites to remove hazardous or toxic substances.

• Load or unload materials used in construction or extraction.
• Operate cranes, hoists, or other moving or lifting equipment.
• Drive trucks or truck-mounted equipment.
• Apply new technologies to improve work processes.
• Mix substances or compounds needed for work activities.
• Pour materials into or on designated areas.

• Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders

• Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

• Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas

• Non-Destructive Testing Specialists

• Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders

• Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

• Boilermakers

• Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators

• Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers

• First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers