Job Description

About Sandia:

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov*These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking a highly motivated person who is passionate about building a safe and healthy work culture to join our dynamic Safety and Health Engineering team as the Engineering Program/Project Lead (EPPL) for Chemical Safety and Management.

The position requires the development, implementation, and maintenance of a high-quality technically-sound chemical safety and management program. The program has impact and visibility laboratory wide and across the NNSA/DOE complex.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Develop and improve corporate chemical safety program specifications, standards, and procedures using technical knowledge in the field.
• Lead the Sandia Chemical Management Working Group.
• Develop and lead a Sandia Chemical Safety Council.
• Provides leadership and tactical planning to achieve long-term strategic sustainability goals of the program.
• Perform assessments using strong technical knowledge and defined scientific practices for a wide variety of activities involving chemicals ranging from R&D laboratory work including scale up activities, to storage requirement review, to performing chemical safety hands-on training.
• Use technical judgment built upon a strong technical background to lead members of the industrial hygiene team, identify potential risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and corrective actions, and recommend risk acceptance or avoidance for all aspects of the project.
• Ensure Sandia’s chemical safety program is not only compliant with all laws and regulations but is also a model for the NNSA/DOE communities.
• Work in partnership with senior leadership, mission execution organizations, other Safety and Health Engineering staff, and others as needed to ensure safety and health.
• Collaborate with other highly trained professionals across the occupational safety and health disciplines and line management to ensure proper work hazard evaluations.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

In this role the person will have chemical safety responsibility for all Sandia sites including but not limited to Sandia NM, Sandia CA, Tonopah Test Range, and Kauai locations. Travel to remote sites occasionally unplanned.

This position requires occasionally working a modified work schedule, travel, and work outdoors in all weather conditions.

The Sandia job code title for this position is Engineering/Program/Project Lead.

Salary Range:

$109,300 - $217,400

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate\'s experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Qualifications We Require:

• Bachelor of Science (BS) in chemistry or similar discipline / STEM degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant chemical safety experience; or Master of Science (MS) in chemistry or similar discipline / STEM degree and a minimum of 1-year relevant chemical safety experience.
• Minimum of 6 years of technical program management work, including program policy development, technical review, customer communications and negotiations; implementation of program requirements; program assessment including documentation and change control actions; working within time constraints.
• Experience with Chemical related worker safety regulations and drivers.
• Experience with industrial hygiene/safety program development.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance and higher clearances as necessary.

Qualifications We Desire:

• Chemical Hygiene Officer Certification (CHO)
• Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH)
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
• Advanced knowledge of the following regulations: OSHA1910.1450 Laboratory Standard; OSHA1910.1200 Hazard Communication
• Familiarity with American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists Threshold Limit Values and Biological Exposure Indices (ACGIH TLVs and BEIs), and National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Relevant Exposure Limits (RELs)
• Experience in the application and use of chemical safety techniques and practices in Research & Development (R&D) environments
• Experience as a classroom instructor
• Current DOE L-level or Q-level security clearance
• Experience applying Process Safety Management (PSM)
• Knowledge of vacuum and cryogen technologies (liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, etc.)
• Understanding of OSHA regulations, ASME Codes, NFPA Codes, DOT regulations, CGA, ANSI standards and DOE/DOD Orders/standards

About Our Team:

Safety and Health Engineering provides the tools and expertise necessary to evaluate and control occupational hazards that may occur during work, while also ensuring SNL meets contractual and promulgated worker safety and health requirements. Organization 4622, Safety and Health Engineering II is responsible for a diverse set of occupational safety and health programs that includes Material Handling Safety, Fall Prevention and Protection, Explosives Safety, Aviation Safety, Chemical Safety, and Respiratory Protection, along with others.

Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Security Clearance:

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Job ID: 693748

Job Family: EN

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.