Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) / Safety Professional (USFCO109USFIH104)

ProSidian Seeks a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) / Safety Professional - Construction/Industrial Hygiene (USFCO109USFIH104) as an Engagement Team Member generally located across the Savannah River Site / Aiken, South Carolina, supporting Environmental Management Sector requirements to support an engagement for a liquid waste contractor (Savannah River Remediation [SRMC]) at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, SC, which is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy.. 

JOB OVERVIEW

Provide services and support as a Construction/Industrial Hygiene Functional Area Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) / Safety Professional (USFCO109USFIH104) under Labor Category: Health and Safety Specialist at Savannah River Site / Aiken, South Carolina.  Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) / Safety Professional - Construction/Industrial Hygiene (USFCO109USFIH104) works collaboratively as part of the ProSidian Engagement Team as Exempt [1099] personnel.  Dedicated Planned Labor Hours (DPLH) of 1250 Straight Time (ST) Estimated Annual Quantity (Hrs. Per Yr.) | 0 Overtime Time (OT) Estimated Annual Quantity (Hrs. Per Yr.).  This is a Labor Hour Subcontract or Contract W-2 (IRS-1099) position, and ProSidian reserves the right to convert to a Full-Time ProSidian employed W-2 Position.  The role(s) are located at Savannah River Site / Aiken, South Carolina, with an identified Work Site Address (121 Richland Ave E, Aiken, SC 29801, USA), providing Construction/Industrial Hygiene functions working to provide BOA Support Services for multiple department requirement Service Areas (SA) for Savannah River Remediation LLC (The SRMC/LW Contractor) at the U.S. Department of Energy | Savannah River Site (DOE-SRS) in Aiken, SC to support the evolving needs of the organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES - Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) / Safety Professional - Construction/Industrial Hygiene (USFCO109USFIH104)

The Certified Industrial Hygiene (CIH) Technician / Safety Professional will provide on-site occupational-health and construction-safety support as a ProSidian Engagement Team Member supporting US Fusion and Specialty Construction | US Rubber and Specialty Applications at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina.  The position is primarily responsible for supporting the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, documentation, and control of workplace health hazards. The technician will also perform assigned safety-professional duties involving field inspections, hazard-analysis reviews, pre-job planning, worker observations, corrective-action tracking, and compliance support. Activities requiring independent CIH or CSP professional judgment will be performed by, or under the direction of, an appropriately credentialed professional. 

Responsibilities and Duties

Industrial Hygiene Responsibilities

• Support qualitative and quantitative exposure assessments for assigned facilities, work packages, processes, materials, and field conditions.
• Assist with developing exposure-monitoring strategies based on work scope, potential hazards, exposure routes, historical data, similar-exposure groups, and possible acute or chronic health effects.
• Conduct personal, area, task-based, and direct-reading monitoring using approved methods and calibrated equipment.
• Monitor potential exposures to airborne contaminants, respirable crystalline silica, asbestos, lead, metals, welding fumes, particulates, nuisance dust, volatile organic compounds, solvents, coatings, adhesives, chemicals, noise, vibration, heat and cold stress, illumination, biological agents, and ergonomic stressors.
• Prepare, calibrate, operate, inspect, maintain, and store industrial-hygiene instruments and sampling equipment.
• Maintain accurate field notes, calibration logs, sampling records, chain-of-custody forms, laboratory reports, exposure notifications, and data-quality documentation.
• Coordinate the submission of samples to approved analytical laboratories and track results through receipt and evaluation.
• Assist the supervising CIH with interpreting monitoring results against applicable OSHA exposure limits and authorized NIOSH, ACGIH, DOE, and project-specific occupational-exposure criteria.
• Promptly report suspected overexposures, unusual monitoring results, worker symptoms, complaints, control failures, or changing exposure conditions.
• Communicate approved monitoring findings and protective requirements to workers, supervisors, project management, occupational medicine, and site industrial-hygiene personnel.
• Recommend and help validate controls using the hierarchy of controls, emphasizing elimination, substitution, isolation, containment, engineering controls, local exhaust ventilation, and improved work practices before reliance on PPE.
• Evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of respiratory-protection, ventilation, hearing-conservation, heat-stress, chemical-management, hazardous-material, and ergonomic controls.
• Support respirator selection, medical-evaluation coordination, fit-testing, cartridge-change determinations, equipment inspections, and respiratory-protection documentation.
• Review Safety Data Sheets, chemical inventories, work packages, procedures, permits, Job Hazard Analyses, Activity Hazard Analyses, and pre-task plans for occupational-health hazards and required controls.
• Assist with reviewing new or modified activities involving hazardous materials, carcinogens, highly toxic substances, process gases, coatings, adhesives, sealants, solvents, and other chemicals before their introduction into the workplace.
• Support investigations of suspected occupational illnesses, employee exposure concerns, monitoring anomalies, and failed industrial-hygiene controls.
• Prepare or deliver approved hazard-specific training and technical briefings for supervisors, craft personnel, employees, and subcontractors.
• Coordinate with qualified radiological-control personnel when activities interface with radiological areas or requirements. Industrial-hygiene duties do not replace independently assigned radiation-protection or radiological-control functions.

Safety Professional Support Responsibilities

• Maintain a visible field presence and support safe execution of authorized construction, installation, maintenance, demolition, coating, lining, rubber, fusion, testing, and commissioning activities.
• Support implementation of the applicable Safety Management System, Worker Protection Plan, Integrated Safety Management requirements, site procedures, and project-specific safety plans.
• Participate in daily coordination meetings, plan-of-the-day meetings, pre-job briefings, safety meetings, constructability reviews, work-package planning, readiness reviews, walkdowns, and commissioning activities.
• Review JHAs, AHAs, work packages, permits, procedures, and pre-task plans for completeness, changing conditions, industrial-hygiene concerns, and appropriate protective measures.
• Verify that identified occupational-health and safety hazards are controlled before work begins and that controls remain effective during execution.
• Conduct and document field inspections, worker observations, housekeeping assessments, and compliance reviews.
• Identify unsafe acts, unsafe conditions, uncontrolled exposures, and noncompliant practices; communicate findings and track corrective actions through closure.
• Exercise stop-work responsibility and immediately elevate imminent-danger conditions, suspected overexposures, uncontrolled hazards, or serious noncompliance in accordance with project procedures and delegated authority.
• Support fact-finding, incident investigations, causal analyses, corrective-action development, lessons learned, and verification of corrective-action effectiveness.
• Assist with evaluating high-hazard activities involving confined spaces, hazardous energy, hot work, electrical work, elevated work, excavation, cranes, rigging, lifting, mobile equipment, pressure testing, and emergency-response considerations.
• Coordinate occupational-health and safety requirements with project management, field supervision, craft personnel, subcontractors, quality, engineering, environmental, occupational medicine, emergency management, and radiological-control organizations.
• Protect controlled, proprietary, personal, and project-sensitive information and maintain records in accordance with applicable document-control, records-management, and quality requirements.