Sr. Industrial Hygienist, Worldwide Industrial Hygiene

Job description

We are expanding our Industrial Hygiene team and need a talented professional to join our global field team to support our North America region. Are you a passionate leader who is practical, business focused and have strong skills in building trust? In this role, you will assess industrial hygiene risk, evaluate the control effectiveness, and educate stakeholders on industrial hygiene programs, risks and impacts. As the industrial hygiene subject matter expert to the field, you will support field-based projects, including designing exposure monitoring strategies.

During and after impactful incidents, you will provide technical support for response, post incident investigation, and risk management. You will work collaboratively across matrixed organizations with Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) Field Operations, WHS Program Managers, Operations, and Legal. Adaptability, persistence, and ability to influence are essential to success in this role. This role requires travel up to 25% of time.

Key job responsibilities

• Serve as cross-functional resource for industrial hygiene and provide expert level exposure assessment support to field operations
• Research background and historical multi-source information specific to topical areas using both internal data sources as well as with being actively aware of external trends
• Apply industrial hygiene principles into complex problems using modeling, data and other methods to eliminate or reduce risk of injury/illness
• Research and be familiar with applicable regulations.
• Support industrial hygiene requests from operations, including responding to incidents
• Provide support in incident investigations and action plan management related to industrial hygiene exposures
• Provide support to develop recommended exposure control strategies
• Lead or be involved in field-based projects addressing industrial hygiene risks
• Communicate effectively with operations, WHS leadership, legal, procurement, and finance
• Provide industrial hygiene support for new facilities and projects as part of design review
• Maintain subject matter expertise across the full range of industrial hygiene hazards

A day in the life

Lead IH Programs

• Support and advance industrial hygiene programs for business unit partners across multiple geographies and risk areas, providing expert guidance to field operations

Manage Complex Risk Programs

• Own the full lifecycle of cross-functional risk programs, from strategy development through implementation and continuous improvement

Drive Risk Reduction

• Define risk program objectives, support implementation of controls, and drive measurable improvements in your risk area (e.g., increased compliance, wider control adoption, automation)

Collaborate Across Functions

• Partner with Workplace Health and Safety Field Operations, Environment, Operations, Disaster Recovery, Legal, and other stakeholders in a matrixed organization

Influence & Execute

• Work with internal and external legal teams, policy owners, and regulators to interpret laws, regulations, and business policies; oversee rollout of controls and audits

Represent the Organization

• Present risk management programs to internal partners, senior leaders, external audit firms, regulators, and potentially at industry association meetings

Contribute to Strategic Planning

• Support the strategic business planning process and own organizational goals related to your risk program

Measure Impact

• Define and track metrics that quantify program effectiveness and risk reduction

About the team

Worldwide Industrial Hygiene (WWIH) supports all Worldwide Amazon Stores (WWAS) business units (BUs) and regions focusing on physical, chemical, and biological health hazards that cause acute and long-term illnesses.

Health hazards that impact associates

mold, noise, heat, cold, communicable disease, ionizing radiation (x-rays), non-ionizing radiation (UV, EMF, lasers), chemicals (ASINs, janitorial, manufacturing), pharmaceuticals, indoor/outdoor air quality, illumination, blood borne pathogen, and legionella. The team is comprised professionals that own specific hazard types (e.g. heat, noise) and control systems (e.g. ventilation). As well as professionals that build mechanisms to ensure conformance to industrial hygiene programs (e.g. training, data management systems).

The Field team provides tactical support to WHS Field and Operations. Individuals work alone and collaboratively across all verticals depending on the business need. WWIH partners with the business to define risk tolerance, controls, and guide the business on compromises between competing priorities.