Industrial Hygienist, HWAD

We're looking for an experienced
Industrial Hygienist .

The Industrial Hygienist develops, administers, and evaluates industrial hygiene and occupational health programs for Hawthorne Army Depot. This position establishes exposure-control standards, conducts monitoring and sampling, supports DoD and regulatory compliance, and provides technical guidance to protect employees from workplace health hazards.

This position is located on site in Hawthorne, NV.

As the Industrial Hygienist, here’s the work you’ll do:

• Administer the Industrial Hygiene program, including lead, asbestos, ergonomic, exposure monitoring, hearing conservation support, and related occupational health programs. Establish site standards, procedures, and controls that align with Company requirements, applicable OSHA/ANSI requirements, and applicable DoD regulations and contract expectations
• Evaluate workplace health hazards by conducting inspections, reviewing records, interviewing employees, and performing qualitative and quantitative monitoring for chemical, physical, biological, noise, vibration, ventilation, ergonomic, and other potential exposures. Interpret results, determine risk significance, and recommend corrective actions or engineering controls
• Establish, train, equip, and maintain a HAZMAT response capability in coordination with Safety, Fire & Emergency Services, Environmental, Operations, and site leadership. Develop or support response procedures, readiness activities, drills, equipment requirements, and post-event reviews for hazardous material incidents within the scope of assigned responsibilities
• Develop and maintain occupational health and industrial hygiene procedures, manuals, exposure-control requirements, PPE standards, sampling protocols, and employee communications. Provide technical guidance to management, supervisors, employees, and the Occupational Health Clinic on hazardous materials, medical surveillance inputs, exposure controls, and safe work practices
• Establish and maintain health-related monitoring programs, including a wastewater sampling protocol that can be activated in coordination with site leadership and medical/public health partners when a potentially contagious disease entity or emerging health risk is identified. Coordinate findings, reporting, and risk-control recommendations while maintaining confidentiality and applicable privacy expectations
• Support site compliance and continuous improvement by performing audits, investigations, report preparation, data analysis, and corrective-action tracking. Coordinate with Fire, Facilities, Environmental, and other functions on fire suppression/extinguisher-related exposure or compliance concerns when assigned, while primary maintenance responsibility remains with the appropriate fire/facilities function

• Industrial hygiene program management capability sufficient to develop standards, sampling plans, exposure-control procedures, and corrective-action recommendations.
• Knowledge of occupational health, hazardous materials, exposure assessment, PPE, engineering controls, and medical-surveillance support requirements.
• DoD, OSHA, ANSI, state, federal, Company, and contract compliance knowledge sufficient to maintain standards and advise management on occupational health risks.
• HAZMAT response, emergency readiness, and incident-support capability sufficient to establish training, equipment, procedures, and coordination with site response functions.
• Sampling and monitoring capability sufficient to operate, calibrate, and interpret results from industrial hygiene equipment and health-related monitoring programs, including contingency wastewater sampling protocols
• Communication and technical documentation…