EHS Specialist

EHS Specialist -III

Pay Rate: 63.50/HR Location: West Point, PA Duration: 5 months with possibility of extension.

Qualifications: BA degree in Engineering, Science, or related field. Certification as a Professional Ergonomist is highly preferred. Hybrid position- 2-3 days onsite. Years of experience: 10-12. 30 hours per week. Work can be split with on-site utilized for conducting assessments and off-site for compiling data and reports.

Ergonomist: An ergonomist, also known as a human factors specialist, is a professional who studies and designs systems, equipment, and workplaces to optimize human well-being, performance, comfort, and safety.

Responsibilities:

• Ergonomic Evaluations: Ergonomic evaluations and combines a scientific and functional approach to developing solutions.
• Ergonomic analysis requires the use of a variety of measurement tools: digital video/picture, weights and measures, and employee/supervisor surveys.
• Ergonomic services are to be provided by a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE) or Ergonomic Expert overseen by CPE.
• Ergonomic Risk Assessment (ERA): Expert will identify ergonomic risk factors present in the work environment, as well as identify potential root causes and development of recommendations/controls that will reduce the ergonomic risk.
• Controls may include engineering, administrative, and/or behavioral/work practice controls that will also improve performance, productivity, and quality.
• Ergonomic Risk Mapping (ERM): Expert is to provide an at-a-glance status regarding where risks lie. This mapping allows the facility, operations, and maintenance teams a visual representation of where risk resides through a birds-eye view.
• Physical Demands Analysis (PDA): Expert will provide a PDA. The PDA will provide an objective measure of the peak physical demands of identified job positions while establishing and quantifying the essential functions critical to successful job performance.
• Functional Job Description (FJD): The expert is to provide Functional Job Descriptions. FJDs outline the manual material handling aspects, body positions, and movements necessary to perform the physical requirements of the job.

Physical demands data will be added into existing job descriptions, as a separate attached document.