Industrial Hygienist - Hampton

POSITION SUMMARY
The industrial hygienist will author technical reports and perform industrial hygiene evaluations of workplaces and operations to ensure the overall health and safety of employees and compliance with applicable regulations. These evaluations involve anticipating, recognizing, evaluating and recommending controls for a wide variety of unique occupational health hazards. Frequent travel will be required.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

- Serve as industrial hygiene and occupational, environmental and public health consultant for other elements of the organization providing CBRN hazard response planning and force health protection consultations to leading DoD, federal, state and industrial clients.
- Management and leadership of industrial hygiene and occupational, environmental and public health tasks may be required such as performing surveys, equipment evaluations, process hazard analyses, operational risk management assessments, corrective actions and training development and delivery.
Project Management: Plan and manage projects from inception to completion utilizing good business practices, Battelle guidelines and resources to provide quality products within task scope, resources and timelines in the technology areas of industrial hygiene, occupational, environmental and public health response and countermeasures to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) hazards.
Business Development: Develop and execute new business opportunities. Develop marketing presentations focused on client needs and Battelle capabilities. Maintain relationships with key clients and coordinate activities with the MRR Senior Industrial Hygienist and other appropriate Battelle business development staff. Explore opportunities with additional clients.
Facilitation and Instruction: Develop, instruct and facilitate technical seminars, workshops, discussion groups, training sessions, and tabletop and field exercises in all areas of CBRN response planning and operations for military installations and medical facilities.
Risk Assessment: Provide technical and analytical support in planning CBRN passive defense, consequence management, force health protection and military operational risk management. Develop force health protection and incident response guidelines by authoring technical guidance documents that address health risk communication and mitigation.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

-Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in industrial hygiene, occupational health, safety engineering or related field.
-At least 12 years of experience in industrial hygiene, occupational health or safety engineering.
-Experience in occupational health and safety or industrial hygiene program management.
-Experience in CBRN health hazard assessment in an operational or field environment.
-Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance at the Secret level.
-Strong written and verbal communication skills.
-Ability to coordinate and manage multiple projects while meeting technical requirements, budgets, and deadlines.
-Physically capable of performing the essential job functions of an industrial hygienist at a work site while wearing personal protective equipment, to include respiratory protection. It is envisioned that wearing PPE will be an infrequent but necessary requirement of the job.

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