Environmental, Safety & Health Principal - Kwajalein Atoll

Ready to launch your career? RGNext operates, maintains, and sustains mission-critical systems to provide safe and effective launch, testing, and tracking of Department of Defense, civil, commercial, and international space lift vehicles. We support ballistic missile, guided weapon and aeronautical tests and evaluations as well as space situational awareness operations and experiments to defend the United States and ensure our nation’s safety.

Our employees serve on the forefront of global defense and space operations, offering challenging, stimulating, and personally rewarding career opportunities.

This position is located on Roi-Namur, on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Benefits include free housing, three meals a day, and potential U.S. overseas tax incentives.

• Provide program oversight functions and administer policies, procedures, and best management practices in accordance with the RGNext contract, Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) Program, OSHA, and the Department of Army Safety Program requirements.
• Coordinate with and provide technical assistance to project departments (Engineering, Technical Facilities, Range Instrumentation, Range Safety, Mission Operations) regarding compliance with project-specific OHS requirements and safely plan and execute work activities.
• Participate in meetings with customers, project team members, and contractors/subcontractors to advise them of occupational health and safety requirements that may affect project design, schedule, or cost.
• Advise project leadership and employees of OHS noncompliance; stop work in imminent danger situations and under conditions of adverse health and environmental impact; recommend acceptable work practices and ensure their implementation.
• Manage or assist with training program requirements, including internal and contracted training (develop, deliver, track).
• Deliver or assist in delivering OHS-related training (new employee safety orientation, fall prevention, working at heights, confined space, respiratory protection, facility safety inspection, job hazard analysis, MEWP, basic crane & rigging, safety leadership training).
• Provide training for the following:
  Tower climber rescue, Electrical safety/LOTO (NFPA 70E) and OSHA Construction or General Industry.
• Assess organizational work activities and processes, develop Job Hazard Analysis (JHA), perform risk assessments, manage tracking, and deliver associated reporting requirements.
• Provide support for occupational medical programs.
• Perform programmatic occupational health and safety assessments/surveys (noise exposure, confined space, respiratory protection).
• Support knowledge of construction/heavy equipment operations (cranes, forklift, MEWP).
• Support knowledge of asbestos, lead, and PCB operations.
• Participate and provide support for accident and incident investigations.
• Develop reports and update OHS program databases.
• Manage/conduct facility safety inspections (annual/custodial) and corrective action tracking; assist with Hazardous Materials, Waste, and Petroleum Products (HMWPP).
• Provide support for subcontractor work scope review (OHS related).
• May provide support for environmental program operations.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Working knowledge of occupational health and safety standards, rules, and regulations and proficiency in applying them to programs and projects.
• Self-starter with decision-making capability and the ability to work independently.
• Possess professional principles of conduct and application of leadership and team-building skills.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Health & Safety or related discipline, or a combination of education and experience.
• Eight (8) or more years of relevant occupational health and safety experience.
• Possess and/or obtain and maintain instructor certification in the following areas:
• Tower climber rescue
• Electrical safety/LOTO (NFPA 70E) training
• OSHA Construction or General Industry
• BCSP certification, HAZWOPER instructor, EM-385, maritime safety, NFPA 70E training and certified crane inspector preferred.