Sr. Industrial Hygiene and Safety Specialist

Yorke Engineering, LLC; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/Dental/Vision

401k with company match

Job summary

Yorke Engineering, LLC is seeking a Sr. Industrial Hygiene and Safety Specialist to join our Northern California team (San Francisco, Berkeley).

This full-time role focuses on designing safety and environmental programs, ensuring regulatory compliance, and providing client-facing training during regular business hours. The ideal candidate brings 10+ years in safety/industrial hygiene, strong communication, and experience in a consulting environment.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree or higher in Public Health and Safety or related field; GPA minimum 3.0.
• PM experience and/or experience supporting project teams.
• Strong Health & Safety rule knowledge and regulatory interpretation.
• Experience with air quality and multimedia compliance.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Willingness to travel and work in the field.

Responsibilities

• Review, evaluate and analyze work environments; design safety and environmental programs.
• Provide training to clients and project teams; communicate analyses to Yorke and regulators.
• Lead project management activities and ensure quality across multiple clients.

Skills

10+ years experience

Project management

Regulatory compliance

Written and verbal communication

Industrial hygiene

EH&S management

IH monitoring & reporting

LOTO experience

IIPP

Travel to client sites

IH certifications

Education

BS in Public Health / Safety

Tools

MS 365 suite

SharePoint

Excel

PowerPoint

Access

Job description

Join Yorke Engineering, LLC, an Environmental Consulting leader in California that implements Environmental Engineering and Compliance solutions for our clients throughout California. Our mission is to solve environmental compliance problems for industrial and governmental/infrastructure facilities. We are a growing and dynamic organization of highly respected professionals. Yorke Engineering, LLC has assisted over 2,000 client organizations with their Air Quality and Environmental Compliance, Engineering, and Permitting needs. Our philosophy is to efficiently help government and industrial customers with the complex array of environmental laws and regulations. From simple permits to complex agency negotiations, from small companies to the largest of California’s organizations, Yorke successfully solves our clients’ Air Quality and Environmental challenges. Our team has over 1,000 years of combined environmental experience and consists of engineers and scientists that specialize in Air Quality, Waste, Water, CEQA, Safety, and Industrial Hygiene.

We are looking for a sharp Sr. Industrial Hygiene and Safety Specialist to join our Northern Ca team (San Francisco, Berkeley) during regular business hours. This is a full-time position at 40 hours per week during our normal business hours. We offer competitive salaries, a full benefits package including Paid Time Off, Holidays, Full Medical/Dental/Vision, along with a 401k program with a generous company match.

We offer a friendly, high performance, team-oriented work environment where professionals can grow amongst their respective peers. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to expand their professional development in a challenging yet rewarding environment.

Position Summary:

The Sr. Industrial Hygiene and Safety Specialist reviews, evaluates, and analyzes work environments and is responsible for designing policies and procedures to ensure adherence to regulations on workplace safety, health, and the environment. They will also design programs to prevent disease or injury to workers and damage to the environment and provide training to clients. This candidate will be analyzing regulatory required compliance and technical issues, communicating those analyses within Yorke, with clients, and with regulatory agencies, providing project management leadership and support to project teams, and performs other duties as required or assigned.

This is an experienced level position working under general supervision. Positions at this level are assigned to perform the more complex and sensitive duties in the occupational field.

The candidate qualifications we are looking for include:

• 10+ years of experience as a Safety Specialist, Industrial Hygienist, or EHS Specialist preferably in a consulting environment;
• Ability to work in an organized team fashion with a track record of strong written and verbal communication to develop schedules and task requirements, uphold quality standards, and drive the team towards project completion;
• Analyzes and ensures regulatory compliance as they relate to workplace health, safety, and environmental policies for our clients, this includes local, state and federal level regulations;
• Ability to perform safety, environmental, or occupational health inspections for compliance with established policies to identify potential new hazards;
• Familiarity with various monitoring and sampling methods, procedures, and techniques used in collecting and testing related to air, dust, odor, and noise monitoring;
• Experience in developing and supporting an efficient EH&S Management System on behalf of clients’ sites;
• Experience with different facets of IH and EH&S services such as:
• Personal Protective Equipment;
• OSHA Regulations;
• ISO 140001;
• Industrial Hygiene Monitoring and Reporting;
• Ergonomics Evaluations and Reporting;
• Experience in Lockout/Tagout (LOTO);
• Illness and Injury Prevention Plans (IIPP);
• Training on new regulations;
• Extensive experience with process, manufacturing, and/or other industrial facilities;
• Ability to manage multiple clients at any given time without losing focus of quality;
• Experience in dealing with regulatory agencies.

Job Requirements:

• B.S. degree or higher in Public Health and Safety, Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Science, Chemistry or any other relevant degree from an accredited university (minimum GPA of 3.0);
• Project Management experience and/or experience in supporting project teams;
• Well-developed technical expertise in Health & Safety rules and regulations;
• Experience with other environmental services related to air quality and multimedia compliance;
• Excellent verbal and written communication;
• Analysis, interpretation, and application of rules and regulations towards practical solutions;
• Experience in conflict resolution and crisis management;
• Capable of working independently in the field;
• Ability to think critically and develop solutions;
• Advanced computer applications, database management and strong Microsoft 365, Sharepoint, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Access abilities;
• Field experience and ability to travel to client sites;
• CSP, CAC, CHMM, Lead Assessor, and/or CIH certification highly desired.