Industrial Hygiene Specialist

Total Safety is looking for anIndustrial Hygienist Specialist to join their safety conscious team! The Industrial Hygiene Specialist is a safety and health generalist who monitors client employees and contractors for physical and chemical stressors. The IH Specialist utilizes various pieces of sampling equipment to monitor for noise chemicals radioactive materials and airborne solid contaminants. The IH Specialist has the knowledge and skills to perform a workplace exposure assessment to evaluate the agents rank them and develop an IH sampling plan. The IH Specialist can recognize hazards evaluate them and recommend control measures.

Total Safetyis the worlds premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and the products necessary to support them including gas detection respiratory protection safety training fire protection compliance and inspection industrial hygiene onsite emergency medical treatment/paramedics communications systems engineered systems design and materials management. Our Core Values are People Safety & Wellbeing Accountability Responsibility Empowerment Honesty Transparency and Integrity.


Essential Duties:
Able to calibrate meters and pumps to ensure accurate sampling. Able to download data from all types of data logging equipment.
Can read and understand an IH sampling plan and sample physical and chemical stressors complete IH data sheets and send samples to lab.
Conduct indoor air quality IAQ studies and document results. Use instrumentation to provide quantitative data to assess the space.
Possess the skills necessary to produce reports in Word complete data sheets chain of custody reports for the lab enter data into Excel and complete Excel tables.
Conduct safety and health evaluations and tests to note if ventilation personal protective equipment lighting and other conditions are adequate to protect workers.
Contact clients to confirm location for sampling work with administrative staff to book all travel arrangements assure sample plan is met.


Skills and Experience:
Able to use all types of industrial hygiene equipment and download information from the meters.
Ability to draft reports of sampling and build tables to record data from the IH sampling.
Understand the sampling media used for each type of sampling and select the correct media for all types of chemical agents.
Respond to emergencies select the appropriate IH equipment to sample and provide accurate data.
Act independently of supervision and make decisions based on real time data and activities occurring in the field.
Reliable can organize work priorities to complete tasks within constricted time frames.
Be able to apply for credentials like a TWIC card and take tests to allow entry into customer facilities.
When a sampling issue comes up in the field be able to adapt and get solutions to equipment deficiencies lack of media or special jobs that arise. Fix gear in the field and adapt when accessories were left at the lab.
Enter data into Excel and be able to extract tables employee notification letters and other reports. Draft a report for review by CIH.
Adapt and be willing to learn new skills which are required by our customers.

Working Environment:
Indoor and outdoor industrial environments. May be frequently exposed to cold hot wet humid outside weather conditions and vibration. Works in customer environment. May be exposed to high pressure chemicals and traffic. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Educational Requirements:
BS in safety industrial hygiene or technical science.
Possess or be willing to take exams for GSP ASP. CSP CIH and CHMM
25 years of field IH experience minimum preferably in oil and gas and refining with technical classes taken during the work period.
In lieu of a BS degree 8 years of IH field work experience would be considered.

Total Safety and its subsidiaries afford equal opportunity in employment to all individuals regardless of race color religion sex age national origin pregnancy familial status disability status veteran status citizenship status genetic information or any other characteristic protected under Federal State or Local law. Total Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority