Environmental Services Coordinator jobs in Tucson, AZ

The Industrial Hygiene and Environmental Services Coordinator manages activities and projects to promote health and safety, protect the environment, and provide occupational and workplace safety and training. The candidate will oversee all aspects of laboratory safety including chemical, biological and radiological safety. The Industrial Hygiene and Environmental Services Coordinator is also responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance with local, state, and federal regulatory agencies such as but limited to: OSHA, EPA, and other related agencies.

The work schedule for this position is flexible and may include working evenings and weekends.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Composes, administers, and implements OSHA workplace safety, environmental protection, and safety programs. Develops, implements, and manages compliance programs to keep current with regulatory standards. Evaluates and improves procedures to facilitate and promote safe work practices
• Audits campus and departmental operations for compliance with local, state, and federal laws and regulations. Maintains records and inspections related to environmental protection and safety programs and projects. Prepares related reports and correspondence including those for regulatory and insurance inspections. Assists with and ensures all discrepancies are corrected or mitigated
• Interprets and applies environmental safety and laboratory safety standards. Ensures compliance with all associated federal and local laws, regulations
• Coordinates and schedules chemical using areas and inspections
• Addresses staff and student health issues or concerns. Coordinates and schedules job assessment physicals
• Provides support services and makes recommendations for repair or replacement of personal protective equipment and ergonomic equipment needs
• Coordinates general health and safety inspections, illness and accident prevention, and collaborates on communicable disease response
• Manages environmental safety programs and projects including disposal of hazardous chemical waste materials or radiation safety. Develops action plans and evaluates programs for operational and funding needs
• Responds to emergencies and non-routine situations. Investigates hazardous material releases, accidents, near misses and complaints. Assists in the implementation of corrective actions; and provides status reports to supervisor
• Networks to stay informed of current safety technologies
• Participates in the laboratory design and associated construction review process for capital improvements and construction projects. Assist with acquiring permits associated with the Industrial Hygiene and Environmental Services from the agency having jurisdiction. Maintains working knowledge of required construction documents as necessary
• Collaborates with campus operations to ensure industrial hygiene, laboratory and environmental safety providing systems and leadership
• Conducts training programs to help insure a sustainable safe workplace to comply with applicable laws, regulations, and codes including participating and/or leading emergency response training
• Coordinates and schedules Industrial Hygiene and Environmental Services activities, applicable service contracts and workloads. Coordinates work with internal departments. Provides estimates for contracts, designated projects, anticipates and relays budget needs for environmental safety activities. Monitors and tracks cost and provides departmental reporting using associated college software
• Maintains logs, files, and compiles weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports as required by the college, and applicable state and/or federal regulations
• Participates regularly in professional development regarding applicable learning necessary for scope of work. Maintains up-to-date pertinent knowledge to ensure college compliance
• Maintains positive working relationship with internal employees, external vendors, stakeholders, and external agencies. Seeks to gain compliance through understanding and relationship building
• Performs all other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, Science, Engineering, or a closely related field and
• RCRA Hazardous Waste Generator Training, HAZWOPER, Department of Transportation and Associate Safety Professional Certification (or the ability to obtain within 3 months of hire) and
• Valid Arizona driver's license

or

• an equivalent combination of certification, education, and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above

Preferred:

• Three to five years of related experience in technical experience in environmental health and safety program management such as: environmental compliance, occupational safety, and hazardous material

The ideal candidate will have the following knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Knowledge of regulatory compliance principles and practices
• Knowledge of public safety and security procedures
• Knowledge and application of organizational and time management principles
• Skill in effective communication (both written and oral)
• Skill in budget/resource management
• Skill in performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature
• Skill in problem solving
• Skill in coordinating and monitoring the work of others
• Skill in independent decision making
• Ability to adapt and maintain professional composure in emergent and crisis situations
• Ability to apply analytical and critical thinking skills as well as draw conclusions and prepare accurate reports of results
• Ability to develop and maintain effective and positive working relationships
• Ability to operate relevant equipment required to complete assigned responsibilities for the position

Physical Requirements:

• Environment: Work is performed primarily in a non-traditional work environment with staff contact and frequent interruptions.
• Physical: Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an non-traditional work setting; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb, balance, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull moderate to heavy (over 50 pounds) amounts of weight; to operate various equipment required to perform job including office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination, i.e., computer keyboard; may be required to travel to other locations using various modes of private and commercial transportation; and to verbally communicate to exchange information. May be exposed to various hazardous conditions such as extreme heat, extreme cold, infectious disease, moving vehicles, electrical current, chemicals, tight spaces, or high places, moving mechanical parts, etc. Ability to wear respirator.
• Vision: Ability to see in the normal visual range with or without correction.
• Hearing: Ability to hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.