Senior Industrial Hygienist

The role

The Senior Industrial Hygienist will run the industrial hygiene program across San Jose manufacturing, machining, and R&D sites. This role involves conducting exposure assessments, managing health programs, and ensuring compliance with OSHA and Cal/OSHA standards.

What you will do

• Maintain and expand qualitative and quantitative exposure assessment programs.
• Plan and conduct personal and area air monitoring, noise surveys, and heat stress evaluations.
• Communicate results to employees and leadership through written notifications and reports.
• Review SDSs and toxicology data for new or changed processes, chemicals, and equipment.
• Recommend and verify controls following the hierarchy of controls.
• Evaluate ventilation and local exhaust performance and support combustible dust hazard analyses.
• Run respiratory protection, hearing conservation, hazard communication, and heat illness prevention programs.
• Maintain compliance with OSHA and Cal/OSHA general industry health standards and record keeping.
• Manage sampling equipment, calibration, chain of custody, and relationships with labs and consultants.
• Develop and deliver relevant training for employees and supervisors.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of industrial hygiene experience in a general industry setting, such as industrial or manufacturing operations.
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in industrial hygiene, occupational health, chemistry, biology, engineering, or a similar science-based discipline.
• Direct experience designing and conducting exposure assessments using NIOSH and OSHA sampling methods and interpreting results against OELs.
• Strong working knowledge of toxicology, including routes of exposure and dose-response.
• Experience working with engineers and process owners to understand a process and turn it into a sampling plan.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA and Cal/OSHA health standards and ACGIH TLVs.
• Direct experience running respiratory protection, hearing conservation, and hazard communication programs.
• Commitment to continually improving ability to research and monitor regulations and industry best practices.
• Great interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong ability to manage multiple projects in a disciplined manner.
• An open and humble approach to finding the best solution to an issue.
• The patience and determination to work in a fast-paced work environment with conflicting priorities.

Nice to have

• CIH certification preferred, or active progress toward it.
• Experience with graphite, carbon, or metal dusts and combustible dust hazards.
• Experience with ventilation testing and direct-reading instruments.
• A master’s degree in industrial hygiene, toxicology, or an EH&S-relevant discipline.
• Experience and passion for working with Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles.

Benefits

• Equity compensation in the form of stock options
• Premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance
• 401K plan with employer contributions
• Flexible spending accounts
• Industry leading paid-time-off policy featuring flexible and inclusive holiday observance
• Paid volunteer time off

About the company

Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid using thermal batteries. The company is dedicated to a future powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.