Senior Scientist

The Senior Scientist is an experienced environmental health and safety professional who provides project management as a project manager to various long-term or short-term Healthcare projects. You will provide consultation for our growing healthcare practice, working with both regional and national clients to audit and improve the hospital physical environment as well as the environment of care, life safety, occupational monitoring and industrial hygiene programs. This position has the responsibility to help with providing and further developing the healthcare training program, shaping marketable services in the healthcare sector, and developing potential clients.

Client Development: Working with marketing and sales executives in developing new clients.

Healthcare Services Development: Working in collaboration or independently in developing new healthcare services including developing training materials, standard operating procedures, and documentation (e.g., checklists, etc.).

Staff Management: Provide mentoring to junior staff members. Staff management opportunity as the team grows.

Staff Development: Working in collaboration or independently in developing and standardizing healthcare staff training. Working with the healthcare team in seeking new training opportunities to develop junior healthcare staff members.

Healthcare Regulatory Compliance: Providing guidance to healthcare clients to ensure physical environment/environment of care and life safety compliance with CMS, TJC, DNV, and other regulatory agencies. Perform building inspections/tours, inspection, testing and maintenance document review, policy and procedure development.

Environment of Care: Participates in Environment of Care/Safety Committee meetings, supporting clients with data collection and review for safety related topics (water management, hazardous waste compliance, differential pressure relationships, etc). Performing/overseeing risk assessments, conducting audits to measure the performance of safety related metrics.

Fire and Life Safety Compliance: Readily recognize fire and life safety compliance issues in the hospital environment (eg. corridor obstructions, damaged fire doors/walls, missing/damaged emergency equipment) and options for correcting issues. Perform and evaluate fire drills and other fire safety related training. Familiar with NFPA Life Safety Code and other relevant standards.

Pre-Construction Risk Assessment: Providing assistance with assessing construction projects for their impact on the healthcare environment, including risks to infection control, life safety, and other physical environment hazards (noise, vibration). Assist in assessing compliance with measures enacted to mitigate these hazards.

Safety Training: Developing and providing formal and informal training to staff and personnel (both internal and client staff) related to any of the above. designing, maintaining and updating Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) policies and databases; preparing and delivering EH&S training programs; updating written materials as needed.