R&D EH&S Compliance Associate ( {{city}})

Kelly is currently seeking an experienced R&D EH&S Compliance Associate in the Midland, MI area!

The R&D EH&S Compliance Associate is responsible for daily collection, packaging and labeling of laboratory chemical waste for transport and disposal; managing and inspecting building waste storage areas and selected safety and emergency equipment; documenting required inspections and maintaining R&D EH&S owned building files. The Compliance Associate will work independently or in a natural work group to produce timely and reliable results while meeting all regulatory and Dow requirements.

Responsibilities: Waste Collection & Packaging

• Collects waste from laboratories and process area for transportation to Central Accumulation Areas (CAA).
• Ensures laboratory waste containers are properly labeled prior to removal from labs/process areas
• Utilizes available resources to determine proper waste disposal methods.
• Ensures waste packs comply with federal, state, local and Dow regulations and requirements
• Maintains CAA including housekeeping, waste pack storage, waste inventory sheets, packaging supplies, and posting of signs.
• Completes and documents inspections of the CAA and other waste storage areas in accordance with Resource Conservation and Recovery Act RCRA requirements.
• Interacts with R&D personnel to plan individual clean-ups and projects that may involve special waste disposal activities.
• Coordinate with various work groups to organize and complete building wide cleanups.

Compliance Tasks

• Performs periodic checks of safety equipment and maintains files of required documentation. Initiates and follows through on issue resolution as needed (i.e. work order submittal and completion tracking)
• Informs and explains routine compliance check issues to building personnel as needed.
• Reports task completion status to Dow Supervisor (i.e. via MTL or other tracking mechanism)

Other Special Tasks

• Participate in various engineering and Industrial Hygiene projects.Such areas include conducting noise monitoring, lab hood air flow surveys, secondary flow indicator calibrations and local exhaust ventilation evaluations (including smoke tests).
• Assist with work process training for new Compliance Associates
• Assist R&D EH&S Compliance team as needed. Examples may include: procedure development, regulator and gas cylinder management, non routine packaging of large quantities (i.e. 55 gallons) of chemicals into smaller containers for disposal, empty drum recycling/disposal, and prepping pumps for repair. Special circumstances may require the use of a respirator.