Senior/Principal Environment, Safety, and Health Coordinator – Operational Suppo

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We are seeking a dedicated and knowledgeable Environment, Safety, and Health (ESH) Coordinator to join our team. The ESH Coordinator will play a crucial role in promoting a safe and healthy work environment by developing, implementing, and maintaining effective safety programs and practices. This position involves collaborating with various departments to ensure compliance with environmental regulations, safety standards, and health policies.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Identify problems; collect, analyze, and interpret data; and identify potential control strategies to mitigate or control risks.
• Collaborate with other highly trained ES&H Professionals across the occupational safety and health disciplines and line management to ensure proper work hazard evaluation and control.
• Support mission activities through self-assessments, causal analyses, and metrics.
• Provide direct ES&H support and contribute to Center and Division ES&H initiatives.
• Provide strong customer focus and partnership in supporting ES&H needs of line management, staff and utilizing a shared learning/risk-based approach.
• Perform a variety of environmental, safety, and occupational health related functions.
• Assist/collaborate with management in implementing and assuring environment, safety, and health performance and compliance across all operations in the organization.
• Develop, implement and communicate organization-specific ES&H policies, processes, hazard controls and tools.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

$102,400 – $199,700

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications, and Application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline, plus five (5) or more years of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance.

• Certification as a safety professional (CSP) or industrial hygienist (CIH) or active pursuit of such.
• Experience applying safety principles and overseeing materials science R&D operations that include heavy activity in pulsed power (accelerator) sciences, regulated lasers, and chemistry operations.
• Experience assisting/coaching staff and management in effectively and efficiently implementing ES&H requirements and procedures.
• Experience and/or familiarity with DOE, OSHA and other regulatory agencies.
• Experience reviewing and analyzing ES&H data in order to recommend performance improvements.
• Experience with occurrence reporting and management processes.
• Experience or training in accident or event investigation, including root cause analysis.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex issues clearly and concisely both in writing and verbally.
• Active DOE security clearance.

Department 04625 provides Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) operational support. The ES&H coordinators in this department support staff and management in Division 1000, Division 6000 and the Executive Support Division. Department personnel support and facilitate implementation of ES&H requirements and processes and assist in the identification and analysis of hazards and risks which may create an unsafe worksite. Department personnel collaborate with ES&H and subject matter experts to formulate engineering and administrative controls to mitigate hazards. In addition, the department supports assurance activities through self-assessments, causal analyses, and metrics.

About Matrix Organization

You will report directly to the ES&H Integration Manager in department 04625 and will be embedded in Center 1600, the Pulsed Power Sciences Center. Center 1600 operates multiple large-scale, high-hazard industrial facilities supporting pulsed power research and experimentation, including systems such as Z Machine, Thor, Mykonos, STAR, and DICE. These facilities support research in High Energy Density Physics, Fusion Technologies, and Advanced Radiography, relying on intricate and complex equipment and systems that integrate high-voltage, pressure, laser, radiological, and many other high-hazard conditions. The scope and technical rigor of these operations require a seasoned ES&H professional with experience in high-hazard industrial environments to provide consistent on-the-ground oversight, ensure regulatory compliance, and maintain the high standards of safety performance essential for mission success.

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

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This Limited Term Employee (LTE) position is a temporary position for one year term, which may be renewed at Sandia’s discretion up to a maximum of seven years.

Individuals in LTE positions may bid on regular Sandia positions as internal candidates, and in some cases may be converted to regular career positions during their term if warranted by ongoing operational needs, continuing availability of funds, and satisfactory job performance.