Senior Health and Safety Specialist (Field Based)

ERM is hiring an onsite Senior Health and Safety Specialist to provide safety leadership, technical oversight, and regulatory guidance within a high‑risk, complex, and strategically expanding operational environment in Poughkeepsie, NY.   This is a full time (40 hours per week) limited term role with a duration of 12 months, extendable. 

Responsibilities

• Uphold all applicable federal, state, and local regulations, consensus standards, and corporate requirements.

• Collaborate with research, manufacturing, cloud and quantum engineering, facilities, and operations teams to design and validate safe work processes.

• Provide safety oversight across laboratories, chemical operations, facilities infrastructure, office areas, and heavy construction projects which may impact workers (including solar installations).

• Provide technical coverage for multiple research and operational sites, including support across manufacturing, research laboratories, development laboratories, data centers, docks, storage facilities – (and more) for those locations.

• Track emerging and existing legal, regulatory, and consensus standards relevant to all site operations.

• Review operations, documentation, and records against thousands of applicable standards.

• Report and assist operations in resolving safety and health non‑conformities with business options and technical IH/Safety insights.

Pay Transparency: 

For the Senior Health and Safety Specialist position, we anticipate the annual base pay of $103,973 – $130,886, $49.98/hr – $62.92/hr USD, limited-term, non-exempt.  An employee’s pay position within this range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.  We also may have instances where employee’s fall outside of the range based on the factors noted above.  This job may be eligible for bonus pay (casual and fixed term/Flexforce employees are NOT bonus eligible). 

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life & disability insurance to benefits eligible* employees. 

*Benefits Eligibility is limited to Regular employees regularly scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week.  Fixed-Term employees (including Flexforce) who are regularly scheduled to work 20 hours a week or more are eligible for a limited benefits package.  Casual employees are NOT benefits eligible. See your recruiter for more details. 

You can apply for this role through https://www.erm.com/careers/apply/ or through the internal careers portal if you are a current employee. 

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, determinable, and payable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law. 

• Ensure scientific research experiments, equipment, and infrastructure are designed to operate safely and legally.

• Develop engineering, administrative, and PPE controls to prevent significant exposures.

• Evaluate and authorize research experiments and operational activities involving hazardous materials and high‑risk processes.

• Translate complex risks into clear, actionable guidance for workers and operational leadership.

• Perform ongoing inspections across all departments, including labs, facilities, construction, contractors, and IH monitoring.  Includes the innovative creation of electronic opportunities for performing and reporting audit results associated with strategic (proact