Industrial Hygiene Technician
- Pay Rate: $94 – $108/hour (on W2)
- Contract Length: 12 months
- Location: Channahon, IL 60410
Raise is currently hiring a contract team member on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader.
Overview
You lead the hands-on industrial hygiene (IH) work at a refinery in Joliet, Illinois. You find, measure, and control hazards in active process units, and you turn that data into exposure assessments, reports, and plans the site relies on. You keep the IH lab and instruments ready, guide teams during incidents, and help shape how the site protects its people.
Responsibilities
- Lead monitoring and sampling inside active process units to identify, assess, and control chemical, physical, and biological hazards.
- Maintain the IH lab and keep monitoring instruments calibrated and ready for planned and unplanned events.
- Analyze sampling data, document qualitative and quantitative exposure assessments in the site database and write clear reports.
- Help build the annual site IH plan with the IH Coordinator and oversee IH programs and practices.
- Lead investigations into concerns that could affect employee health.
- Review new or modified equipment for health hazards as part of the management of change process.
- Support refinery operations and turnarounds and help teams troubleshoot gas meter readings and interference.
- Provide monitoring support during incidents and emergency response, including outside normal hours when needed.
- Write and deliver training materials and site procedures on occupational health.
- Represent IH in site self-assessments and audits, and lead portions of them.
Required Qualifications
- 1-3 years of IH experience in an industrial or manufacturing setting
- Advanced knowledge of air monitoring methods, sample handling, data analysis, and instrument calibration
- Strong working knowledge of different chemicals and how to monitor them
- Experience completing exposure assessments and writing technical reports
- Comfort working inside active process units, with availability for occasional after-hours incident support
- Clear communication with engineering, maintenance, and operations teams, and with every level of the organization
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in industrial hygiene, or in a physical science or engineering field
- Petrochemical or refinery experience
- Certification from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH)
- Knowledge of ventilation and radiation as they relate to IH
- Experience providing IH support in a laboratory setting
- Strong computer skills, including relational databases and spreadsheets
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