Industrial Hygiene Specialist III

POSITION SUMMARY Identify and mitigate occupational health risks to ensure a safe work environment, focusing on chemical, biological, and psychosocial exposures. Support the development of preventive strategies aligned with company health standards and regulatory requirements. NATURE & SCOPE: Oversee the assessment and control of workplace hazards affecting employee health, including epidemic risks, while contributing to hygiene standards and toxic waste management systems. Collaborate with internal teams to implement effective health protection measures across operations. PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSBILITIES: - Support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of industrial hygiene and occupational health programs. - Develop and maintain procedures related to workplace health risk identification, assessment, monitoring, and control. - Ensure company activities are aligned with applicable occupational health, industrial hygiene, environmental, and regulatory requirements. - Provide technical advice on occupational exposure risks and required control measures. - Conduct comprehensive assessments of potential chemical, biological, physical, and psychosocial hazards in the workplace. - Identify work processes, activities, and operational areas that may negatively impact employee health. - Evaluate exposure risks related to hazardous materials, toxic substances, dust, fumes, gases, noise, heat stress, ergonomics, and biological agents. - Recommend practical control measures based on recognized standards, technical studies, and risk assessment outcome Conduct planned and unplanned workplace inspections, surveys, and field assessments to monitor the work environment. - Perform or coordinate occupational exposure monitoring, including air quality, chemical exposure, noise, heat stress, and other industrial hygiene measurements as required. - Review monitoring results and identify trends, gaps, or areas requiring corrective action. - Maintain industrial hygiene records, exposure data, and monitoring reports.es. - Participate in the development and review of emergency preparedness and response procedures related to: - Hazardous materials - Chemical exposure incidents - Biological hazards - Epidemics and pandemics - Toxic substance releases - Support the development of control plans to reduce the spread of infectious diseases within company facilities. - Provide technical input during emergency planning, drills, exercises, and incident response activities involving health-related hazards. - Support the development and review of procedures and regulations related to the handling, storage, transportation, and disposal of toxic or hazardous waste. - Ensure that toxic waste generated from operational activities is managed through a safe, controlled, and compliant disposal system. - Review chemical disposal requests and provide technical recommendations to ensure safe and compliant waste management. - Coordinate with environmental, operations, maintenance, and waste management teams to ensure proper implementation. - Review operational procedures, work methods, and maintenance activities to identify potential health risks. - Assess processes involving chemicals, hazardous materials, biological agents, or activities that may create occupational exposure. - Recommend improvements to work practices, engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment. - Support Management of Change reviews where changes may introduce new occupational health risks. - Support the investigation of occupational illness cases, exposure incidents, hazardous material releases, and biological risk events. - Participate in root cause analysis and recommend corrective and preventive actions. - Monitor closure of health-related observations, inspection findings, and corrective actions. - Prepare technical summaries and lessons learned to prevent recurrence. - Prepare industrial hygiene reports, exposure assessment summaries, inspection reports, and monthly performance updates. - Maintain records of surveys, exposure monitoring results, corrective actions, and health risk assessments. - Analyze occupational health data and recommend improvement programs. EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE: ESSENTIAL EDUCATION and/or QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED Bachelor’s degree in industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Health, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Public Health, or a related discipline. DESIRED EDUCATION and/or QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED Master’s degree in health sciences. MINIMUM YEARS EXPERIENCE IN SIMILAR JOB ROLE Minimum of 10 years in occupational health and safety. 6. SKILLS / TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AREAS: - Strong knowledge of industrial hygiene, occupational health, and workplace exposure control. - Knowledge of chemical, biological, physical, ergonomic, and psychosocial risk assessment. - Understanding of hazardous materials management and toxic waste disposal requirements. - Ability to conduct workplace surveys, inspections, and exposure monitoring. - Knowledge of emergency preparedness for hazardous materials, biological hazards, epidemics, and pandemics. - Strong technical reporting and data analysis skills. - Ability to interpret regulatory requirements, standards, and technical guidelines. - Good communication and coordination skills. - Ability to work with operations, maintenance, contractors, emergency response, medical, and environmental teams.

• Senior Specialist, Industrial Hygiene

  Maaden · Saudi Arabia