EH&S Specialist

FLIR Systems, Inc.; Goleta (CA); Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Teledyne OEM is seeking an Environmental, Health, and Safety Specialist in Goleta, CA. You will lead hazardous waste management, manage chemical inventories and SDS, and ensure air quality and permit compliance. The role includes OSHA safety support, incident investigations, and regulatory reporting.

Ideal candidates have 2–3 years of EH&S experience in industrial settings, a related degree, and strong cross-organization communication. U.S.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of chemistry, hazardous materials, and EH&S regulations (EPA, DTSC, Cal-OSHA).
• Experience with environmental compliance, safety audits and emergency response (HAZWOPER preferred).
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across all organizational levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead hazardous waste management to ensure regulatory compliance and ISO 14001 objectives.
• Manage hazardous chemicals and environmental compliance systems (inventories, SDS, reporting).
• Provide technical expertise in air quality, waste, and permit compliance; track permits and inspections.
• Support OSHA safety compliance, risk assessments, inspections, investigations, and training.
• Respond to environmental incidents and spills with containment and reporting actions.
• Assist with regulatory inspections, audits, permit renewals, and ISO 14001 initiatives.

Skills

Environmental compliance

Hazardous waste

Air quality

Industrial safety

Regulatory knowledge

ISO 14001

HAZWOPER

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Associate’s degree in related field

Tools

Regulatory tracking tools

Microsoft Office

SharePoint

Job description

Join Teledyne OEM as an Environmental, Health, and Safety Specialist!

Are you ready to launch your career to the next level? Join our mission-focused team, where we value technical excellence, collaboration, and agility.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the hazardous waste management program to achieve regulatory compliance and support ISO 14001 environmental management objectives through effective waste handling, inspections, training, recordkeeping, continuous improvement initiatives, environmental performance tracking, and audit readiness.
• Manage hazardous chemicals and environmental compliance systems, including chemical inventories, SDS management, hazardous material reporting, compliance records, environmental metrics, and regulatory tracking tools.
• Provide technical expertise in air quality, hazardous waste, and industrial wastewater permit compliance, including permit condition tracking, inspections, recordkeeping, reporting, and regulatory agency interactions.
• Support safety compliance activities, including OSHA compliance, risk assessments, safety inspections, corrective action tracking, incident investigations, and employee safety training programs.
• Respond to environmental incidents, chemical spills, and emergency events, providing technical support for containment, reporting requirements, corrective actions, and environmental impact mitigation.
• Support regulatory inspections, environmental audits, permit renewals, ISO 14001 initiatives, and corporate compliance assessments, ensuring all environmental and safety programs remain audit-ready and compliant with federal, state, and local requirements.

Preferred Experience:

• Environmental compliance experience in semiconductor, electronics, aerospace, or advanced manufacturing industries.
• Working knowledge of California air quality, hazardous waste, industrial wastewater and environmental permitting requirements.
• Experience supporting or implementing ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems (EMS).
• Strong knowledge of environmental regulations, regulatory reporting, and agency inspections.

What You Need:

Knowledge of chemistry, hazardous materials, and relevant EH&S regulations (EPA, DTSC, Cal-OSHA). Experience with environmental compliance, safety audits and emergency response (HAZWOPER preferred). Strong communication skills and ability to work across all organizational levels. High attention to detail, accurate documentation, and ability to work independently. Proficient with Microsoft Office and SharePoint; able to obtain required EH&S certifications. Physically able to perform inspections, wear PPE, and lift up to 50 lbs.; holds valid CA driver’s license.

Bachelor's degree and 2-3 years’ experience or Associate’s degree in a related field and 4-6 years EH&S experience in CA industrial/manufacturing/R&D environments preferred. U.S. citizenship due to access restrictions. Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.

Salary Range: $77,900.00-$103,800.000 The anticipated salary range listed for this role is only an estimate. Actual compensation for successful candidates is carefully determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, location, local regulations (such as minimum wage), education/training, work experience, key skills, and type of position.

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.

You may not realize it, but Teledyne enables many of the products and services you use every day. Teledyne provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit and analyze information for industrial growth markets, including aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, energy, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.