Environmental and Safety Solutions, Inc.
Senior Occupational Hygienist (362)
Winnemucca, Nevada•Contract
$50 - $66 hourly
$50 - $66 hourly
About the Job
Job Summary: Career-level position within field. Considered highly skilled and proficient in discipline. A seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization. Resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways. Works on problems of diverse scopes where data analysis requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise. Receives technical supervision from the Project ESH Manager and Corporate Industrial Hygiene Manager.
Major Responsibilities:
- Helps integrate industrial hygiene requirements into project planning, design, construction, and operations.
- Interprets requirements and provides technical assistance within ES&H teams and to other project groups regarding risk assessment, plan preparation, industrial hygiene requirements, and ES&H program execution.
- Researches issues and regulatory requirements and prepares documentation and reports.
- Provides technical guidance for industrial hygiene studies, risk and hazard assessments, and other safety and health reviews.
- Assists in the development and implementation of routine industrial hygiene activities inclusive of the project Safety and Health Management Plan and associated industrial hygiene plans, procedures, methods, and training.
- Participates in emergency response and aids the investigation and resolution of health-related incidents.
- Helps identify stakeholders and resolve their concerns.
- Provides industrial hygiene input to Engineering, Construction, Commissioning and Startup, Subcontracts, Operations, and other project groups to make sure that requirements are properly integrated within project planning, design, construction plans, and subcontracts.
- Participates in meetings, as required, with customers, project team members, and contractors/subcontractors to advise them of industrial hygiene requirements that may affect their work.
- Conducts inspections, sampling, and monitoring to help evaluate ES&H performance, identify the need for corrective actions, and confirm compliance with contract, regulatory, project, and company ES&H requirements.
- Helps track ES&H performance and trends, prepares reports, and enters data in the Industrial Hygiene Records System (IHRS).
- Provides support for ES&H team members and tasks, inclusive of all three ES&H disciplines.
Education and Experience Requirements:
- Requires a Master of Science degree (or equivalent) related to industrial hygiene or equivalent recognized degree in a specialized scientific field (e.g., occupational safety and health, public health, chemistry, biology, applied science) and 6+ years of relevant experience; or Bachelor of Science degree (or equivalent) related to industrial hygiene and 8+ years of relevant experience.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
- Ability to research and comprehend organizational and regulatory requirements.
- Communicates well with diverse stakeholders and has technical writing and analytical skills.
- Demonstrates understanding of ES&H Management Systems.
- Able to integrate environmental, safety, and health factors for program execution.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Computer skills for preparing presentations, data management, and report preparation.
- Analytical skills related to environmental sampling and monitoring.
- Adaptable and able to work outdoors in a field environment under project site and weather conditions.
- Ability to support various work shifts, as needed.
- Valid driver’s license.
- Certified Industrial Hygiene (or equivalent Certified Safety Professional) through a recognized accrediting organization licensing through appropriate regulatory authorities, where required sufficient number of courses in industrial hygiene broad, progressive work experience including senior supervisory experience in industrial hygiene.
About Environmental and Safety Solutions, Inc.
Environmental and Safety Solutions Inc. (ESS Inc.) is a Cincinnati based certified MBE. Since 2002, ESS Inc. has been providing health and safety, engineering, environmental technical and management services to businesses throughout the United States. We work with businesses from Fortune 500 members to small businesses in the local community, providing world class occupational safety and health consultative services and environmental compliance assistance. Our customers value our personal attention to their needs and the accuracy and flexibility of our services to meet their unique needs.
As President and Founder of ESS, Lonnie Grayson brings more than 25 years of professional environmental safety and health leadership to the company. He founded ESS Inc. in 2002 and has grown the firm into a nationally recognized industry leader. With a professional background as a mechanical engineer, Mr. Grayson knows the value of a safety and health program that focuses on the processes that drive the safety and health process in a company to achieve great results. We understand the need for partnership with our customers to fully understand their needs and the culture of each customer to meet and exceed their occupational safety, health and environmental compliance needs.
As President and Founder of ESS, Lonnie Grayson brings more than 25 years of professional environmental safety and health leadership to the company. He founded ESS Inc. in 2002 and has grown the firm into a nationally recognized industry leader. With a professional background as a mechanical engineer, Mr. Grayson knows the value of a safety and health program that focuses on the processes that drive the safety and health process in a company to achieve great results. We understand the need for partnership with our customers to fully understand their needs and the culture of each customer to meet and exceed their occupational safety, health and environmental compliance needs.