Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) Specialist (Monday to Friday 7:00am to 4:00pm)

Are you passionate about creating safer workplaces and making a real impact on employee well-being? We're looking for an EH&S professional to help keep our facilities safe, compliant, and prepared.

Essential Functions:

• Performs building safety inspections, plan, develop, implement, and maintain IIPP programs.  
• Interfaces with governing regulatory agencies for compliance purposes and subsequently partner with all parties affected or responsible for implementation of necessary compliance requirements.  
• Conducts and coordinates on-site inspections to audit physical conditions, hazardous conditions, and safe work practices. Measures, evaluates, and identifies risks and provides recommendations for improvements in systems, policies and procedures.
• Monitors and investigates all recordable injuries.  
• Responds, investigates, and resolves EHS related support requests in a timely manner; administers First Aid and CPR as necessary.
• Reports on safety and health awareness, issues and statistics.
• Creates and sends out Safety Alert notification with reported incident information   to all respective managers.
• Assists in safety and health incident investigations with Worker’s Compensation team including investigation and follow up of risk exposure patterns identified.
• Maintains Corrective Action Reporting log with inspection findings and suggestions. Tracks progress of corrective actions from inception of findings to abatement process.
• Respond to EHS related support requests via Smartsheet service requests along with other EHS team members
• Works with EHS team and/or Safety consultants as directed on new projects when necessary. 
• Partners with facilities, construction, various departments, and outside vendors as necessary to support new projects, and facility build outs as requested. 
• Acts as liaison between Company and vendors providing services, maintenance, and repairs for facilities related equipment and infrastructure. Ensures proper and adequate safety supplies are in inventory by coordinating with Purchasing Department.
• Develops various site maps such as Emergency Evacuation maps, Fire Extinguisher maps, Fire Alarm Zone(s) maps, etc. 
• Performs routine inspection on fire extinguishers and update information, documentation, and contacting appropriate vendors for extinguisher maintenance.  
• Partner with facilities on facility fire suppression and alarm systems ensuring proper maintenance and function of these systems on a regular basis. 
• On rare occasions be willing to take emergency calls outside of normal work hours to offer EHS support.  
• Maintains all relevant records including and not limited to New Hire training, General Safety training, Process Management Safety Training, Orange County Public Health Inspections, Hazardous Waste Manifest, Department of Transportation, Hepatitis B Vaccine,  Purchasing Quotes and Invoices, Universal Waste tracking, Safety Shoe Policy and Expense Forms, Annual Fire Extinguisher Inspections, Fire Department Inspections, FDA Inspections, Forklift Inspections, Occupational Radiation Exposure Records, Sprinkler System Inspections, and Fire Alarm Inspection for facility.
• Participates in and leads Safety Committee and other Safety support meetings; follows up with Safety Committee members and/or Supervisors with safety related training topics or needs.
• Provides New Hire Environmental, Health & Safety training.
• Performs routine Hazardous Waste inspections and maintains Hazardous Waste inventories; ensures proper labeling of hazardous waste and tracks biohazard waste totals.
• Assists with controls for identified hazards by coordinating implementation of controls based on results of hazard analysis.
• Facilitates and provides support for hazardous waste collection and pick up process.
• Performs safe removal of SMS 2400 sharps system and replacements when sharps containers are full.
• Responds to chemical spills (i.e. oil) and other major incidences.
• Conducts New Hire Environmental, Health & Safety training.
• Supports team members in the set-ups, coordination, and facilitation of EHS and relevant trainings. Assists in organizing, entering data and preparing presentations, charts, and graphs.
• Assists with managing Emergency Action Plan program and exercises including training.
• Manages Bloodborne Pathogens and Hepatitis B programs.
• Maintains knowledge of relevant federal, state, and local laws and regulations pertaining to Environmental, Health & Safety programs.

Education and Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED; Bachelor’s degree preferred. 
• Minimum of three (3) years of relevant experience in an industrial setting; preferably laboratories and/or pharmaceutical.

Special Requirements/Certification:

• OSHA 30 Hour General Industry Trained certification. 
• OSHA standards for General Industry (OSHA 511) certification. 
• First-Aid/CPR certified, preferred.