Industrial Hygienist Jobs

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Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

Supporting IBMs Corporate Health & Safety Team, the Industrial Hygienist will support various business units in monitoring, evaluating, and advising on health and safety solutions. Primary duties include assessing physical and chemical hazards within manufacturing. In your role, you will have the ability to collaborate withing health and safety professionals within North America while focusing on supporting Canada operations.

The Industrial Hygienist Role Includes

• Conducts industrial hygiene surveys and investigations of a variety of complex industrial manufacturing and research operations in order to identify, evaluate and control occupational safety and health hazards which may be hazardous to the health of our employees.
• Evaluates equipment and ventilation systems to ensure adequate controls are implemented.
• Provides safety and health training for employees.
• Has a desire to participate in technical meetings, professional societies, technical standard-setting activities.
• Performs baseline and periodic industrial hygiene exposure assessments of work operations.
• Performs pre-purchase chemical procurement evaluations.
• Safeguards life and property in regard to the classical industrial hygiene disciplines including chemical, biological, asbestos, noise, and toxic and hazardous gases.
• Maintains a comprehensive understanding of business unit strategies.
• Performs employee exposure monitoring, conducting required air and surface sample collection.
• Evaluates well-being trends internal and external to IBM, maintaining awareness of regulatory and internal requirement changes.
• Assists management in the performance of work site safety and health inspections and correcting unsafe acts and conditions.
• Develops and assists line management and employees in the effective implementation and compliance of the safety and health programs and procedures.
• Participates as a member of a local health and safety team, supporting safety programs where required.
• Understands and supports health benefits programs and initiatives.
• Supports IBMs Global Health & Safety Management System (ISO 45001 Certified).
• Assures compliance with all applicable safety and health local regulations.
• Assists managers and employees, using professional skills, judgment, creativity, and people skills to maintain our safety culture.

Important*** This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. To be eligible for this position, you need to be a citizen or a permanent resident of Canada.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bilingual (English, Fluent).
• At least 1-2 years experience in applying Industrial Hygiene (IH) Principles and in a research/manufacturing work environment within the IH field.
• Bachelor's Degree in safety or occupational health sciences or a closely-related scientific/engineering technical discipline or equivalent.
• High level communication skills.
• Ability to be an effective problem-solver and work independently with minimal supervision.

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

• At least 2-3 years experience in applying Industrial Hygiene (IH) Principles and in a research/manufacturing work environment within the IH field.
• Certified Industrial Hygienist or working towards certification.
• Experience in industrial hygiene sample collection and results advisement within manufacturing.

About Business Unit

IBM Corporate Headquarters (CHQ) team represents a variety of functions such as marketing, finance, legal, operations, HR, and more, all working together to solve some of the world's most complex problems, help our clients achieve success and build collaborative work environments for IBMers.

Your Life @ IBM

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.