Environmental Health Specialist

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department: Environmental Health and Safety

Job Title: Environmental Health Specialist

Position #: 1790 – Requisition #: 37402

Job Summary:

As part of the Environmental Health and Safety Department, this full-time University Staff (unclassified) Environmental Health Specialist position helps develop and conduct training and outreach, inspect laboratories, audit research, academic, and institutional support activities for compliance with applicable Federal, State, local regulations, and funding entity requirements.  This position supports campus wide programs in laboratory safety, chemical exposure monitoring, indoor air quality assessments, respiratory protection, and medical surveillance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Acts as the primary liaison for EHS on the Denver campus, in addition to spending time at the Anschutz campus. On both campuses, performs compliance and safety inspections/audits of research and teaching laboratories, shops, and other areas where regulated operations that pose liability to the institution.
• The position supports hazardous waste management activities on the Denver campus. This includes participating in RCRA and DOT compliance oversight; assisting with the coordination of hazardous waste (HW) pickups for the Denver campus; moving hazardous waste containers to storage areas requiring the operation of a university vehicle; identifying and characterizing waste; lab packing and bulking HW; maintaining HW and shipping documents (manifests, land disposal restrictions, and waste profiles); paperpacking chemicals for disposal. Position will also conduct outreach for waste minimization efforts.
• Communicates compliance findings, conducts compliance assurance follow-up measures and corrective action activities. Documents compliance findings and develops or assists with the generation of compliance metrics (includes administration of related databases). Participates in decommissioning and “green tagging” hazard abatement validation efforts.
• Assists with and/or develops training and outreach materials. These include content and format development for online, written and in-person training delivery. Conducts in-person training and outreach presentations. Prepares outreach materials in the form of compliance guidance documents and standard operating procedures. May assist with writing, updating, or editing compliance, safety or training program plans. Conducts and assists with coordination of outreach efforts on the Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) campus for such EHS activities as safety fairs, vaccination clinics, etc. Other examples of outreach and training efforts include (but are not limited to) conducting new employee orientations, student intern safety trainings, TA training, and presenting at departmental meetings (i.e., administrator meetings, etc.).
• Provides industrial hygiene and hazardous materials response support for both Anschutz and Denver locations. Performs indoor air quality assessments. Performs environmental and personnel exposure sampling activities. Assists with spill response activities. Assists with maintaining testing and sampling equipment and instrumentation. Performs tests to assess adequacy of engineering controls designed for worker/student protection. Participates as a member of the EHS emergency response team. Assists with respiratory protection program (i.e., conducts fit tests, records management, develops filter change out schedules, ensures appropriate mask type and cartridge for hazard, etc.). Acts as the primary Denver campus first responder for hazardous mat