Health & Safety Professional - Field Support

Requisition Id 14357 

 

Overview:

We are seeking a mid career Health and Safety  (H&S) Professional who will focus on identification, recognition, evaluation, and control of workplace hazards associated with dynamic and rapidly evolving research and development activities within the Isotope Sciences and Engineering Directorate (ISED) as part of a multi-disciplinary team. This position resides in the R&D, Neutron & Nuclear Safety Services group in the Safety and Operations Services Division in the Environment, Safety, Health, and Quality Directorate, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).  

 

As part of our team, you will work as part of an integrated team with the responsibility for H&S oversight activities and tasks associated with work control and research support operations. Additionally, this position will provide H&S and operational support to maintain compliance with all applicable Federal and State laws, DOE Orders, and ORNL policies and procedures regarding worker safety and health. This position will be matrixed to ISED; additional  information regarding research activities and the scientific mission of ISED and its associated facilities can be found at: https://www.ornl.gov/directorate/isotopes.

 

As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an extraordinary 80-year history of solving the nation’s biggest problems. We have a dedicated and creative staff of over 6,000 people! Our vision for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) is to cultivate an environment and practices that foster diversity in ideas and in the people across the organization, as well as to ensure ORNL is recognized as a workplace of choice. These elements are critical for enabling the execution of ORNL’s broader mission to accelerate scientific discoveries and their translation into energy, environment, and security solutions for the nation.

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provide professional safety and industrial hygiene (IH) support to and oversight of R&D, facility operations, and maintenance activities.

• Support Division Work Control activities for research safety activities by reviewing proposed and ongoing research activities.

• Facilitate completion of the operational activities deemed necessary through the work control process or as requested by researchers to enable research objectives in a manner that ensures the safe and compliant execution of the research mission.

• Build and sustain an environment that supports cooperation and cohesiveness between H&S, operations, and research staff.

• Evaluate R&D activities, facilities and operations tasks, or internal operating procedures and processes to identify hazards and provide recommendations for controls and verify adequacy of controls as work proceeds.

• Use comprehensive IH practices and equipment to conduct qualitative and quantitative exposure assessments of chemical and physical hazards.

• Abide by and promote the Battelle Safe Conduct of Research principles including being personally responsible for ensuring safe operations, raising safety concerns, using a questioning attitude, considering hazards for every task, maintaining a healthy respect for what can go wrong, and where learning never stops.

• Provide technical support in the application of regulatory requirements, procedures, and standards that are applicable under 10 CFR 851, the DOE Worker Safety and Health Program.

• Continually seek ways to increase operational efficiencies and improve safety culture in support of the research mission and champion initiatives to do so.

• Participate in assessments to verify compliance and program effectiveness.

• Perform one or more and/or support the roles listed below, within a research environment to ensure workplace hazards have been identified and properly controlled, as well as to maintain compliance with applicable safety