Description

Who We Are

As the Savannah River Site’s management and operations contractor since 2008, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) makes the world safer. With safety and security in the forefront, SRNS develops innovative approaches to deliver on our environmental commitments and nuclear materials challenges; supplies products and services necessary to maintain the nation’s nuclear deterrent; secures nuclear materials to prevent unwanted proliferation; and transforms nuclear materials into assets and stable wasteforms. The SRNS workforce is highly capable, engaged, and adaptable to meet existing and expanding missions. SRNS employees apply superior expertise and innovative solutions to complex and challenging national and global issues. We have the knowledge to address a range of national and international nuclear issues. We make the world safer – and you can, too.

Job Family Description

Occupational Health and Safety personnel ensure workplace environments comply with health and safety regulations and standards to prevent accidents, injuries, and health hazards. They conduct risk assessments, regular inspections, and audits to identify potential hazards and recommend corrective actions. They develop, implement, and train employees on health and safety processes, procedures, and protocols. They ensure organizational compliance with health and safety requirements from regulatory agencies. They review and provide input for hazards and controls in job safety analyses. They investigate incidents, analyze causes, and recommend corrective actions to mitigate risks that affect workers, property, the environment, and the general public.
Discipline Description

Industrial Hygienists evaluate and recommend controls for environmental, chemical, and physical hazards that can affect the health and well-being of workers, the general public, and the environment. Industrial Hygienists provide compliance-based oversight of operations to ensure that site activities are conducted in accordance with all applicable state and federal regulations, DOE directives and orders and in a manner that will have minimal impact on workers, the public, and the environment. This includes identification, evaluation and control of those environmental factors or stresses arising in or from the workplace that may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being, or significant discomfort and inefficiency among workers. They review data and perform calculations in support of conducting hazard risk assessments depending on exposure agents and determining sampling strategies. They provide employees’ exposure reports and educate employees on their potential exposures. They verify controls through sampling/monitoring of personnel performing an evaluated task, adjust controls based on results, and update the hazard risk assessment. Industrial Hygienist produce technical documents, articles, and presentations.
Some Typical Duties & Responsibilities Include:

Have extensive knowledge and understanding of 29 CFR 1910, 29 CFR 1926 and 10 CFR 851 and ability to apply them through education or past experience.
Incorporates conventional Industrial Hygiene (IH) practices and a variety of complex features such as complicated technical requirements, application of new or special materials or processes and difficult coordination or oversight requirements into problem solving and programmatic planning where only general objectives are stated.
Performs comprehensive, advanced practices of IH by anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling environmental factors or stresses in the workplace.
Performs advanced assessments of work exposures; design and conduct comprehensive exposure monitoring strategies.
Develops alternate solutions to existing problems, performing all necessary detailed work.
Applies resourceful and critical thinking to unique or complex problems.
Provides informal guidance to new team members.
Able to research, modify and apply existing methods and technology to conventional IH problems.
Impacts the quality of own work and others on the team and uses existing procedures to perform tasks.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in relevant field plus at least two years of experience (YOE) in a relevant role, OR Master's degree in relevant field

Equivalencies to experience and education requirements will be considered