"Experiment Review Coordinator"

The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) is one of DOE's premier user facilities. Users come to NSLS-II to take advantage of its high brightness and resolution in pursuit of their scientific goals.

Position Description

The candidate will serve as an Experiment Review Coordinator to advocate and provide technical resources on matters of environment, health and safety. Primary responsibilities include providing professional knowledge and expertise in the administration, support and implementation of environmental, health and safety programs to assure compliance with regulatory agency guidelines, consensus standards and BNL policies.

This hands-on position involves partnering with line management representatives, employees, senior staff, subject matter experts, and NSLS-II Users. Fieldwork venues include: laboratories (chemical, biological, physical, nanomaterials, etc.); construction sites; physical plants (infrastructure and maintenance) and large experimental equipment. The Experimental Review Coordinator supports the NSLS-II, one of the newest, most advanced synchrotron light sources in the world. NSLS-II enables its growing research community to study materials with nanoscale resolution and exquisite sensitivity by providing cutting-edge imaging capabilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Reporting to the NSLS-II Environment Safety, Health and Quality Manager this safety engineer will have the responsibility to:

• Conduct Experimental Safety Reviews for NSLSII, inclusive of review and approval of experimenter's documentation, identification of hazards and controls, and ensuring the safety of staff and users during the performance of the experiments through the implementation of controls.
• Identifies higher risk experiments (highly toxic, energetics, radioactive, biological, etc.) and notifies the ESH Manager of the need for an extended safety review.
• Provide Field ESH oversight expertise during routine work activities. Serve as Liaison with the user community regarding pending experiments and raise concerns to management as needed.
• Assist NSLSII with the identification of hazards associated with all facets of NSLS-II operations, provide recommendations on controls and compliance requirements and communicate to workers and safety staff.
• Develop local policy (for NSLSII) regarding use of biologicals and radioactive materials capturing safety requirements that are in compliance with OSHA, DOT, DOE and other regulatory requirements.
• Conduct/participate in audits, assessments, and surveillances of safety and health programs.
• Respond to issues, events, and safety concerns, and provide support to the incident commander and NSLS-II managers to ensure that hazards are identified and controlled.
• As assigned, participate and/or lead investigations of accidents, events, incidents, illnesses, and injuries.
• Participate in design reviews of equipment and facilities for environmental, safety, and health to ensure compliance with laboratory requirements.
• Participate/lead Readiness Reviews including Beneficial Occupancy Readiness Reviews, Operational Readiness Reviews, and Internal Readiness Reviews. Prepare reports, conduct causal analyses and identify corrective actions to address findings, as well as following actions to closure.
• Be familiar with Environmental and Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Chemistry or related health and safety field and a minimum of 3 years' progressively responsible related work experience which demonstrates advanced capabilities and use of sophisticated engineering approaches.
• Knowledge of OSHA/ACGIH regulations with IH impacts
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Possession of a valid driver's license and satisfactory driving record
• Willingness to obtain and maintain related professional certifications such as ASP, CSP, CIH.
• Must demonstrate the ability to present ideas and concepts orally and in writing in a clear and concise manner to communicate technical information and interact with individuals with diverse backgrounds and levels of understanding including senior management, engineers, scientists, and trade workers.
• Willingness and aptitude to learn from our current Safety staff and to be a team player
• Solid safety-based reasoning skills
• Strong interpersonal and time management skills

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Master's degree in an Engineering, Scientific, or Environment, Safety, and Health (ESH) discipline is preferred.
• 5 years' work experience as a mechanical, project, or safety engineer/manager, in an industrial, construction, or scientific setting.
• Working knowledge of 10CFR851
• Working knowledge of DOE Order 420.2D
• Knowledge of ACGIH controls and recommendations
• Safety Professional (ASP/CSP) or Engineering (PE) credentials, or the ability to obtain those credentials in a short period of time, is highly desirable.
• Other relevant safety or professional certifications will be valued.
• Previous work experience in a Department of Energy accelerator facility

Environmental, Health & Safety Requirements:

• Person should be capable of wearing a respirator.
• Person will work around magnetic fields > 5 gauss

Brookhaven National Laboratory is committed to providing fair, equitable and competitive compensation. This is a multi-level role and the full salary range for this position is $92,000.00 - $148,000.00 / year. You will be placed at the level and salary commensurate with your experience. Salary offers will be commensurate with the final candidate's qualification, education and experience and considered with the internal peer group.