Lead Environmental Health & Safety Specialist
industrial_energy_operations › Environmental Health & Safety · S5 — S5 — Principal Support Specialist · Support
Serves as the senior technical authority for workplace safety and environmental compliance programs across a site or multi-site organization.
Median pay · United States · annual
$57,975 USD
▲ +62.4% vs S1 on this ladder
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What this role is
Serves as the senior technical authority for workplace safety and environmental compliance programs across a site or multi-site organization. At the Principal Support Specialist (S5) level, the role owns function-wide support practice, program-level and systemic support problems, and drives support strategy across the function. Subject-matter authority; shapes the practice.
What this level does
- Develop and standardize new inspection checklists, sampling protocols and equipment-calibration procedures within the EHS support area, and roll them out to the team
- Resolve the most complex procedural EHS issues — ambiguous audit findings or novel exposure scenarios — drawing on deep knowledge of regulations, industrial hygiene and monitoring techniques
- Act as the working lead and technical reference for EHS technicians across sites, facilitating execution and providing peer guidance on procedure
- Contribute EHS support expertise to program design led by professional staff, translating field experience into workable procedures and training content
- Own the integrity of core compliance records (OSHA 300 logs, SDS libraries, permit trackers) and define how the support team maintains them
- Knowledge applied
- Highly skilled in EHS support procedures; contributes to the creation of new checklists, protocols and methods within that area.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Resolves complex procedural issues and develops improved techniques where standard procedure does not apply.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Acts as working lead and technical reference across sites; provides peer guidance and informs professional program design.
- Typical experience
- 6+ years; expert in EHS support and monitoring specialty.
Skills at this level
- Safety Inspection Programs
- — Plans, sequences and runs scheduled inspections and safety checks against health, safety and environmental standards, recording findings and confirming that controls, equipment and work practices meet requirements.
- Environmental & Industrial-Hygiene Sampling
- — Collects air, noise, respiratory and other environmental/hygiene samples following defined protocols; labels, logs and hands off specimens and flags out-of-range results.
- Monitoring Equipment Maintenance & Calibration
- — Maintains and calibrates gas meters, sound-level and air-sampling devices on schedule, verifying readings and taking instruments out of service when out of tolerance.
- EHS Compliance Recordkeeping
- — Maintains OSHA 300 logs, SDS/MSDS libraries, permit trackers and inspection records accurately and to regulatory retention requirements using EHS software such as OSHALOG 300 and MSDS tools.
- Safety Training Delivery
- — Delivers established safety and hazard-awareness modules to employees, tracks attendance and completion, and supports setup of training sessions.
- Regulatory Compliance Knowledge
- — Applies working knowledge of health, safety and environmental regulations to identify and control exposures during inspections and to determine whether conditions meet standards.
- Hazard Identification & Escalation
- — Recognizes potential exposures and unsafe conditions during checks, distinguishes routine from non-routine findings, and escalates or corrects within established procedure.
- Corrective Action Follow-Up
- — Investigates inspection and sampling findings, determines the appropriate corrective step within procedure, and tracks it to closure to prevent recurrence.
- Permit & Waste Compliance Coordination
- — Tracks permit renewals and waste-disposal and program compliance requirements across a site, ensuring deadlines and documentation are met.
- Procedure Development
- — Creates and standardizes new inspection checklists, sampling protocols and calibration procedures within the EHS support area and rolls them out to technicians.
- Compliance Reporting & Data Analysis
- — Compiles inspection, sampling and incident data into compliance reports, identifying patterns and trends for professional EHS staff.
- Scientific & Technical Foundation
- — Applies a science base in biology, chemistry, microbiology, ergonomics, occupational safety and industrial hygiene to interpret readings and evaluate hazards.
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