Operations Supervisor

Total Safety is looking for a EHS Supervisor to join their safety conscious team! The EHS Supervisor ensures that all Environmental Health and Safety functions in assigned area are meeting internal requirements and external regulatory compliance, and that security and emergency action plans are in place and tested.

Total Safety is the world's premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and the products necessary to support them, including gas detection, respiratory protection, safety training, fire protection, compliance and inspection, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical treatment/paramedics, communications systems, engineered systems design, and materials management. Our Core Values are People, Safety & Wellbeing, Accountability, Responsibility, Empowerment, Honesty, Transparency, and Integrity.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, completion of industrial hygiene field investigations, identifying monitoring methods and media, performing exposure monitoring for hydrocarbons, particulates and other airborne contaminants, conducting noise dosimetry sampling and completing area noise surveys, assisting with indoor air quality investigations, operating and maintaining field testing equipment, and compiling data from field investigations.

Additional responsibilities include review of sampling plans, project equipment, proposed project schedule and the ability to communicate and answer any questions with other field team members.

Specific Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct industrial hygiene surveys including, but not limited to, personnel and area noise sampling, air sampling for occupational exposure assessment (VOC’s, benzene, hydrogen sulfide, Hexavalent chromium, dust, particulates, etc.), illumination, ventilation surveys, IAQ, ergonomic studies, and other studies as appropriate to level of expertise.


• Operate, calibrate, and maintain instruments including sampling pumps, calibrators, noise dosimeters, and sound level meters, and direct reading gas meters.


• Conduct safety inspections at client site.


• Collect notes on activities performed by workers being monitored and/or maintain daily log of activities related to project work.


• Complete data sheets, IH calculations, chain of custody forms, and prepare samples for shipment to laboratory.


• Create data tables and drawings for reports.


• Enter field data into MedGate.


• Conduct respirator fit testing.


• Submit administrative paperwork including timesheets, expense reports, field reports, etc. on timely basis in accurate and neat format.


• Assists others as needed.

Education: High school diploma or GED plus ARSC (Association of Reciprocal Safety Councils) Basic Orientation Plus and client-site specific safety orientation. Prefer an associate degree in science or technology-related field such as industrial hygiene, engineering, industrial technology, environmental sciences, safety, biology, physics, or chemistry. 

Experience:  A minimum of five (5) years of progressive experience in the field of IH.  Training in asbestos, lead or mold not required, but beneficial.  Additional training may be required depending on client- or project-specific requirements and/or company policies.

Required Licenses or Specific Training:  Background screening may require TWIC (Transportation Workers Identification Credential), NABSC (North American Background Screening Consortium), or other graded background program.  Drug and alcohol screening according to DISA, NASAP (North American Substance Abuse Program), or other corporate policy.  Medical examination including a standardized medical questionnaire, pulmonary function test, chest x-ray, audiometric exam, and respirator fit test.  Must have a valid driver license.

Proficiency in the care and use of all sites specific, facility and customer required Personal Protection Equipment (PPE).  Trained in Respiratory Protection and fully certified to wear respiratory breathing equipment (Fit Tested).

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