Corporate Occupational Health and Safety Specialist

About Us

At EA, you'll find yourself surrounded by dynamic professionals that embrace collaboration and curiosity to foster innovation and problem-solving. This culture forms the essence of our value proposition to apply high-quality, objective, and interdisciplinary services to complex environmental challenges. With a strong foundation in servant leadership and community service, EA employees are encouraged to pursue personal and professional passions. As a team, we empower each other to share ideas, believe in our common purpose, and value differing perspectives.

We are seeking an enthusiastic Early Career Occupational Health and Safety Specialist to join our Corporate Health and Safety Department. This position offers an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate or early-career professional who is passionate about health and safety and eager to make an impact in an ever growing and dynamic environmental engineering company. As part of our dynamic team, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects while developing valuable skills and knowledge in environmental compliance, industrial hygiene, safety, and sustainability.

• Perform regulatory compliance analyses, audits, and assessments for safety on various types of projects. Project examples include soil remediation actions, sediment sampling and dredge placement analysis, building demolition, well installation and ground water sampling, etc.
• Conduct technical research for application of OSHA and other regulations to unique projects like shoreline stabilization activities, extremely remote work locations, and uranium mine cleanup.
• Support the development of safety programs.
• Create and deliver safety training on topics like fire safety, HAZWOPER, ladder safety, etc.
• Write safety policies and standard operating procedures.
• Create and report on safety metrics.

• B.S. degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, or related discipline
• 0-3 years of professional experience in the occupational health and safety field
• Strong self-motivation and the ability to work effectively with peers, clients, and independently
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Basic understanding of federal and/or state regulatory programs/statutes
• Comfortable working in both office and field/industrial environments
• Interest in regulatory compliance issues and a passion to learn and participate in a wide range of environmental, industrial hygiene, and Haz Mat assessment projects
• Travel is required and constitutes about 25% of duties. Travel may include EA office visits, training delivery, and field audits of EA projects

• Interest and ability to achieve ASP, CSP, CIH in the next 5 years
• Familiarity with technical editing in Word
• Interest in technology like safety management system software, mobile data collect, and new/emerging exposure assessment tools

This position requires specific driving duties. You must be able to pass a motor vehicle records check required by our insurer.

Offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a drug screen.

$55,000 — $80,000 USD

The EA pay range for this position is intended as a general guideline and does not guarantee specific compensation or salary. Factors considered when making an offer include job responsibilities, education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, alignment with market data, and compliance with federal and state laws.

At EA, our core values are openness, balance, and challenge and we strive to improve the quality of the environment in which we live, one project at a time. Our professional, team-centric culture promotes collaboration and flexibility and allows employees to guide their own career development path. To that end, we provide training and coaching to support ongoing development for our project managers and consulting engineers.

EA prides itself on servant leadership, career development for staff in all areas, and maintaining work-life balance including flexible schedules. We have a tremendous base of positive client…