Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

Altria (East Jackson St, Richmond) - Customer Site VA

The Environmental Health and Safety Specialist provide dedicated EHS support for Perkin Elmer employees at the customer’s Center of Research and Technology. Serve as the primary customer EHS liaison, proactively identify and mitigate risks, and ensure compliance with Perkin Elmer programs, applicable regulations and customer requirements.

• Serve as the primary onsite EHS representative; coach employees, promote hazard reporting and exercise stop-work authority when imminent danger exists.
• Ensure OSHA, EPA, state, Perkin Elmer and customer compliance; maintain documentation, manage self-inspections, conduct audits and walkthroughs, and close corrective actions.

• Chemical Hygiene Plans and Hazard Communication, including SDS review, labeling, chemical storage, compatibility, inventories and ventilation assessments.
• Assess corrosives, flammables, compressed gases and cryogens, including handling, storage, transport, cylinders, regulators, dewars and oxygen deficiency hazards.
• Support BSL-2 operations, biological risk assessments, containment, signage and biological waste management; ensure applicable biosafety compliance.

• Oversee hazardous waste compliance, inspections, characterization, labeling, satellite accumulation, storage and disposal; reinforce customer waste segregation requirements.
• Evaluate chemical, biological, physical and ergonomic exposures; partner with Industrial Hygiene to review monitoring results, identify monitoring needs and recommend controls.
• Conduct PPE assessments and verify selection, use and maintenance; support respiratory protection, hearing conservation and medical surveillance.
• Assess workstations, repetitive tasks and manual handling of chemicals, waste and gas cylinders; recommend engineering and administrative controls.

• Assess laboratory and automation equipment for guarding, emergency stops, interlocks and pinch points; coordinate corrective actions with customer and operations leadership.
• Conduct JHAs and laboratory risk assessments; apply the hierarchy of controls and support Management of Change.
• Investigate injuries, near misses, property damage and environmental incidents; conduct root cause analyses, track corrective and preventive actions, and analyze trends.

• Customer Partnership and Operational Support Coordinate EHS orientation and laboratory training; assist customer training assignments and completion, deliver toolbox talks and promote continuous improvement.
• Participate in customer safety meetings, inspections and audits; partner with laboratory and operational leadership to resolve concerns and align EHS requirements.
• Improve workflows, sampling, chemical handling and ergonomics; review equipment, analytical methods and process changes before implementation and support safe transitions.

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job at any time.

• OSHA general industry and laboratory standards, EPA RCRA and applicable state regulations.
• Laboratory safety fundamentals: chemical hygiene, hazard communication, ventilation, compressed gases, cryogens and BSL-2.
• Risk assessment, JHA, inspection and root cause analysis.
• Sound hazard judgment, including when to stop work and when to elevate.
• Coaching and influencing scientific staff and customer stakeholders.
• Clear training delivery and concise documentation.
• Self directed across multiple priorities with limited supervision.

• BA/BS…