Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist

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Alexandria, VA 22301

Full-Time

$70,000 – $75,000 per year

• Implement, maintain, and continuously improve EHS policies, procedures, programs, and training materials.
• Conduct new-hire safety orientations and refresher safety training.
• Monitor OSHA, EPA, state, and local regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate workplace hazards and recommend engineering, administrative, and PPE controls.
• Track EHS metrics, trends, KPIs, and corrective actions.
• Prepare EHS reports and presentations for management.
• Maintain accurate, organized, and audit‑ready EHS documentation.

• Conduct routine safety inspections, audits, and workplace risk assessments.
• Inspect production areas, sanitation areas, warehouses, coolers/freezers, maintenance areas, loading docks, and chemical storage areas.
• Identify hazards associated with machinery, automated equipment, material handling, sanitation chemicals, thermal processes, refrigerated environments, and production activities.
• Identify unsafe conditions and behaviors and recommend corrective actions.
• Track corrective and preventive actions through verified closure.
• Partner with operational leaders to ensure safety controls are effective and sustainable.

• Lead or support investigations involving workplace injuries, illnesses, near misses, and other incidents.
• Perform root‑cause analysis and identify contributing factors.
• Develop corrective and preventive action plans.
• Monitor corrective actions through completion.
• Analyze incident trends and recommend proactive injury‑prevention strategies.
• Maintain OSHA injury and illness records, including OSHA 300 logs and related documentation.
• Support workers' compensation‑related safety activities when required.
• Communicate investigation findings and prevention recommendations to management and employees.

• Support compliance with applicable OSHA, EPA, fire code, workers' compensation, state, local, and company requirements.
• Maintain documentation required for internal and external audits.
• Support regulatory inspections and documentation requests.
• Maintain records related to safety inspections, audits, employee training, workplace incidents, environmental activities, permits, chemical inventories, corrective actions, and regulatory compliance.
• Assist with environmental permits and regulatory reporting requirements.

• Deliver safety training to employees, supervisors, contractors, and other personnel.
• Develop and update safety training materials.
• Provide training on PPE, Hazard Communication/Haz Com, Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), Machine Guarding, Forklift and Pedestrian Safety, Chemical Handling, Emergency Response, Ergonomics, Slip/Trip/Fall Prevention, Confined Space Awareness, and General Workplace Safety.
• Coach supervisors and frontline leaders on hazard recognition and safe work practices.
• Promote employee participation in safety initiatives.

• Support environmental compliance programs and initiatives.
• Assist with waste management and waste reduction programs.
• Monitor wastewater‑related activities.
• Support spill prevention and response programs.
• Assist with air and water permit requirements and documentation.
• Support chemical storage and…