EHS Specialist
Redwood City, CA, United StatesYesterday
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Key details
- Salary
- $110K–$129K/yr
- Location
- Redwood City, CA, United States
- Work style
- Onsite
- Job type
- Full-time
- Function
- Operations & Strategy
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- Yesterday
Skills
About the role
Synthego is seeking a hands-on, detail-oriented Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Specialist to support environmental compliance, hazardous waste management, and workplace safety across its laboratory and manufacturing facilities in Redwood City, California.
This role will be responsible for executing and maintaining EHS programs, with a strong emphasis on chemical and hazardous waste compliance, regulatory inspections, environmental reporting, and facility safety. The EHS Specialist will ensure that required inspections, assessments, permits, records, and corrective actions are completed accurately and on time.
The ideal candidate has practical experience managing EHS compliance in a chemical, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or laboratory environment; a strong working knowledge of California and local environmental regulations; and the ability to work independently in a changing regulatory environment. This individual must be comfortable working directly with employees, facility and manufacturing teams, external consultants, and regulatory agencies to resolve compliance issues and implement sustainable corrective actions.
This is an execution-oriented role requiring a proactive, organized professional who can identify risks, take ownership of issues through closure, and maintain a consistent state of inspection readiness.
What You'll Do:
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Own and maintain site safety programs to protect employees, contractors, visitors, and facility operations.
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Own, report, and monitor EH&S KPIs, take corrective actions as needed
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Conduct periodic mock safety inspections and quarterly safety inspections, including consultant-supported assessments where appropriate
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Maintain centralized tracking of inspections, safety tickets, incidents, audit findings, regulatory commitments, and corrective actions using designated company systems.
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Own, maintain, and improve all safety procedures
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Assist in managing Synthego’s Emergency Response Team, coordinate training, evaluations, and maintain relevant equipment.
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Work hand in hand with the Service Engineering and facility teams to identify, prioritize, and remediate any issues.
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Perform safety assessment for new procedures, new materials, new products, new equipment purchases/installations, etc... to ensure compliance with safety standards
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HepB vaccination tracking (w/ HR)
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Work with industrial hygienist on routine monitoring
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Improve program for ergonomic assessments working with third party resources
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Own prescription safety glasses, respiratory protection program, and safety footwear program
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Improve a program for Job Hazard Analysis and roll out across all sites.
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Advocate for Environmental Health and Safety, driving a strong and committed safety culture throughout the organization.
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Investigate, compile, and develop reports on any incident/accident that may occur; and ensure action items are adequately complete. Conduct root cause analyses and proposed corrective actions.
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Own the safety ticketing system, ensure investigations are done, and Corrective and Preventive Actions are tracked
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Evaluate site-level execution of employee safety and injury prevention programs; implement and monitor site level safety metrics.
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Ensure compliance with applicable Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) requirements, California hazardous waste regulations, and San Mateo County Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA) requirements.
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Ensure permits, plans, and submittals remain current
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Maintain effective working relationships with regulatory agencies, waste vendors, engineering firms, environmental consultants, and other service providers.
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Maintain hazardous waste manifests, waste profiles, accumulation records, inspection logs, container labels, training records, and other required documentation.
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Verify proper waste segregation, container compatibility, labeling, closure, accumulation time limits, and management of hazardous waste containers and secondary containment. Coordinate hazardous waste pickups, waste vendor activities, waste characterization, and disposal documentation.
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Maintain and improve the Chemical Hygiene Plan and related safety procedures, forms, and inspection checklists.
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Investigate environmental compliance deficiencies, identify root causes, and implement corrective and preventive actions to prevent recurrence.
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Maintain accurate, readily retrievable records and ensure chemical hazardous and environmental compliance documentation is inspection-ready.
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Maintain an up-to-date compliance tracker identifying applicable requirements, owners, due dates, status, supporting records, and outstanding actions.
Site Safety Program Execution
Compliance