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Chemical Lab Safety Coordinator

Tidal Vision

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Other Engineering

Bellingham, WA, USA

Posted on Thursday, September 5, 2024

JOB TITLE: Lab Project & Safety Administrator

REPORTS TO: Facilities & Maintenance Manager

STATUS: non-exempt

LOCATION: Bellingham, WA (on-site)

SALARY RANGE: $35.00-$45.00/hour

BENEFITS: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, optional FSA/HSA, 401k with 6% employer match, life and AD&D insurance, Employee Assistance Program, short & long term disability, tuition reimbursement, 21.67 days of paid time off + 10 holidays

About Tidal Vision:

We believe that sustainability should not require customers to compromise on price, convenience, or performance. Our mission is to create positive and systemic environmental impact by making our biopolymer solutions cost competitive, more convenient, and better performing than the synthetic chemicals we displace. We value innovation and take pride in challenging the status-quo; we choose to view obstacles as opportunities. We value new ideas and encourage the team to apply creativity and invent new solutions to meet challenging demands. We foster open, direct communication, and a collaborative working environment through our unique approach to work culture. We value our employees and demonstrate that through our compensation and benefits programs and opportunities for growth and development.

About Tidal Vision’s Unique Work Culture:

Tidal Vision strives to build and invest in the highest performing and most innovative team. We put our people and customers above process, avoid company-wide rules as much as possible, and have the courage to take unusual approaches to advance our mission. With this approach, we believe we can create a more flexible, fun, stimulating, creative, collaborative, and innovative organization.

Our commitment to developing, practicing and promoting direct and open communication, responsibility and freedom, and leading with and seeking context is a responsibility for every role at Tidal Vision.

Job Summary:

Tidal Vision is hiring a Lab Project & Safety Administrator to own the safety, administration, continuous improvements, and expansion projects within the laboratory.This position will streamline processes, providing our technical staff/scientists the ability to focus on project specifics while having supplemental support in inventory management, researching and implementing safety standards, maintaining and troubleshooting equipment, and setting up workstations, etc.

Essential Job Functions:

Must be a member of the Safety Committee responsible for representing the Lab and participate by developing and executing safety protocols, training, etc.
Developing and implementing a chemical hygiene plan, and training all new hires in chemical hygiene and safety in compliance with OSHA, BSL, etc., while maintaining internal requests from the lab team regarding chemical regulations, lab equipment usage, general housekeeping matters, etc.
Ensuring the development team has the correct resources available so they may remain primarily focused on development initiatives.
Seeking and driving continuous improvement initiatives for the lab (efficiency, safety, LEAN) and holding the team accountable for the changes made.
Must seek context to create, prioritize,, and execute lab projects with management and building maintenance to ensure growth targets for the lab are met.
Develop, manage and audit lab inventory systems (including chemicals and SDSs).
Performing HSE and QMS audits within lab spaces.
Responsible for onboarding all new laboratory staff including: required safety, culture, and general lab systems training.
Making an inventory of all lab equipment, scheduling and tracking periodic maintenance and calibration service using a maintenance management system (CMMS).

Basic Qualifications:

2+ years experience of technical or administrative laboratory experience with extensive knowledge of health, safety, and environmental (HSE) factors.
2+ years experience with chemical regulations and compliance.
2+ years of experience with a variety of analytical laboratory equipment.
2+ years of inventory management experience within a laboratory.
Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, engineering or related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications:

Project management experience.

Licensing & Special Requirements:

Incumbent is subject to a criminal background check.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements:

Most of the work will be performed within a laboratory environment or an office within a laboratory. Some work (such as inventory or scaleup method research) may be performed in a factory or warehouse setting. May require standing and sitting for prolonged periods of time. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand, talk, hear, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, detect odors; and must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Required to wear PPE at appropriate times.

Tidal Vision provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

The statements contained herein reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the level of knowledge and skill typically required, and the scope of responsibility, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned including work in other functional areas to cover absences or relief, to equalize peak work periods, or otherwise to balance the workload. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.

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