Sr. Industrial Hygienist, Worldwide Industrial Hygiene

We are expanding our Industrial Hygiene team and need a talented professional to join our global field team to support our EU and AMET regions. 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 within EU and AMET (at least 35% 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

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.

Basic Qualifications

- 8+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level
- Professional certification in Occupational/Industrial Hygiene recognized by the International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA) e.g., CIH, DipOH, Chartered Occupational Hygienist, ROH, COH.
- Bachelor's degree in Occupational Hygiene, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health, Environmental Health, or a related scientific discipline in line with the European Qualifications Framework (EQF)

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building cross-functional partnerships and influencing stakeholders across the organization to act without having a direct reporting relationship
- Experience in compliance, audit or risk management
- Master's degree (postgraduate qualification) in Occupational Hygiene, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health, or a related field.
- Experience working across multiple EU member states or in a multinational regulatory environment (including the middle east).

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