EHS Technician

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Under the direction of the Safety Manager, this position is responsible of collecting EHS data to assess regulatory compliance and maintains EHS sampling equipment. Enters data into Materion Safety and ensures data integrity. Conducts EHS audits and observations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Collects health, safety and environmental samples and maintains EHS sampling equipment. Understands the theory behind exposure assessment and relevant EHS sampling equipment
• Enters EHS data into Materion safety and independently authors EHS reports summarizing the data. Creates recommendations based on the data.
• Conducts EHS audits and authors reports on findings. Makes recommendations to address audit findings.
• EHS technicians collect health, safety and environmental samples and enter them into Materion Safety. They also perform EHS inspections and provide advice to hourly employees and their supervisors.
• Other tasks as required

Qualifications

Education

• Required: High School degree
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in EHS or Associated Degree in EHS or related field, air and water sampling course work, familiarity with MS Office.

Experience  

• Required with Associates degree: > 3 years or relevant experience
• Required with High School diploma: > 6 years or relevant experience
• Required with Bachelor’s degree diploma: 0-1 years or relevant experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Independently follows written instructions from EHS professionals, local and corporate EHS policies and procedures
• Supports EHS professional staff with data collection
• Works with complicated environmental and industrial hygiene equipment
• Verifies complex data, correlation and preparation of EHS reports
• Performs calculations, data entry, data analysis, field monitoring and report writing under at the direction of an EHS professional
• Maintains and calibrates environmental and industrial hygiene equipment
• Keeps abreast of the latest EHS data collection equipment and methods
• May provide guidance, support and train less experienced technicians
• Prepare and conduct EHS training
• Conducts workplace EHS observation to assess regulatory compliance, promotes hazard recognition and mitigation
• Supports emergency response efforts

The selection of the person to be hired for this position is contingent on the candidate having export compliance eligibility for access to U.S. controlled technology which comes under the licensing jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of State, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

The candidate selected will have to qualify as either a U.S. citizen, a U.S. National, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a Person Admitted into the U.S. as an Asylee or Refugee., a National of a country that is not prohibited from having access to U.S. controlled technology (via a letter of assurance), or a Person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction. Please understand that any job offer that requires approval of an export license will be conditional on Materion’s determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with Materion’s business requirements.

Materion Corporation and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) is an equal employment opportunity employer. It is the Company’s policy to not unlawfully discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also the Company’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on the Company. Please inform the Company’s personnel representative if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.

Materion’s Veteran Employee Resource group supports veterans and promotes the benefits of hiring veterans in the workplace. We honor all those who have served and are a military friendly company. Veterans are encouraged to apply and military experience and skills are transferrable to Materion careers.

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