Senior Industrial Hygienist

Location: Everett,Washington,United States

TITLE:           Senior Industrial Hygienist

LOCATION:   Everett, WA, USA

TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.

TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes.  TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, as a federal contractor, TerraPower has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

Senior Industrial Hygienist

The Senior Industrial Hygienist will provide support to multiple worker operations and work in unison with other safety departments to identify, recognize, evaluate and control workplace exposures. The senior industrial hygienist will provide leadership and participate with all levels of TerraPower to develop and implement appropriate policies and practices while continually evaluating established procedures for compliance with federal, state, and local requirements. The senior industrial hygienist will require working knowledge of hazardous waste, ergonomics, biological, chemicals, non-ionizing radiation, ionizing radiation, ventilation, thermal stress, and noise.  Responsibilities include development/oversite of writing exposure assessments, sampling, managing hazardous cleanup, conducting periodic inspections, overseeing confined space entry, maintaining chemical inventory, managing hazardous waste, and providing safety review of documents and plans.

This position reports to the Senior EHS Manager.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the subject matter expert for chemical safety and industrial hygiene, overseeing compliance with relevant regulations.

• Lead the continuous development and execution of industrial hygiene programs.

• Write scientifically and legally defensible exposure assessments to mitigate workplace hazards of new and existing projects.

• Direct, create, and deliver company-wide safety training programs related to chemical handling, hazardous materials, and industrial hygiene.

• Create, review, and implement policies, handbooks, and procedures to support EHS general needs.

• Provide industrial hygiene review of documents and work plans.

• Prepare and execute sampling plans which include equipment selection, calibration, laboratory analysis, data interpretation

• Manage the hazardous waste program and regulatory reporting.

• Oversee the procurement, safe handling, and disposal of all chemicals and hazardous materials. Establish procedures for inventory and SDS management, auditing, and reporting.

• Ensure operation and maintenance of testing instruments.

• Manage oversite of IH monitoring programs (Hearing, Respiratory, Laser, etc.).

• Develop and provide safety training to increase knowledge of industrial hygiene.

• Provide oversite to hazardous waste cleanup and spill response.

• Support incident investigations and corrective action plans related to industrial hygiene hazards

• Represent IH for start-up councils for individual projects

• Conduct safety walkthroughs and support developing action plans to resolve findings

Key Qualifications and Skills

• B.S. in Industri