Industrial Hygiene Specialist

SSR Mining’s Marigold Mine, located near Battle Mountain, Nevada, is looking for an Industrial Hygiene Specialist to join our team! In production since 1989, Marigold is a large run-of-mine heap leach operation with several open pits, waste rock stockpiles, leach pads, a carbon absorption facility, and a carbon processing and gold refining facility. At Marigold, our vision is to be one of the world’s premier mining companies, providing exceptional shareholder value by delivering excellence in all that we do. Our people’s safety and well-being is key to our success. We offer a generous benefits package which includes a medical, dental and vision plan, a 401k retirement plan and employee stock purchase plan – both with employer contribution, paid time off, disability leaves, bonus program and much more!

Key Areas of Responsibilities & Duties:

Reporting to the Safety, Health, & Security Manager, the Industrial Hygiene Specialist will typically work four consecutive ten-hour shifts during the day shift which may include occasional weekends, holidays and night shifts, including on-call responsibilities and is responsible for the following:

• Provide occupational safety and health guidance, training, testing, reporting, controls, and support to the departments and personnel at the Marigold Mine.
• Development of IH initiatives and sampling strategy for site
• Coordinate and perform IH sampling across site, and realization of other IH initiatives
• Assist with MSHA inspections and sampling as directed
• Assist in updating physical demands analyses and health risk assessments
• Sample shipment, data entry, statistical analysis, and reporting of samples
• Employee notification of sampling results
• Assist divisions with toolbox and other training sessions as directed
• Conduct new hire trainings as directed
• Maintain stock of IH sampling supplies and equipment calibration status
• Provide health sampling, noise sampling, and biological sampling as needed
• Monitor and audit effectiveness of all controls in place for health exposures
• Develop systems, standards, and programs for safety and health purposes
• Maintain records related to occupational health
• Manage gas detection on site
• Lead formal health risk assessments
• Fulfil on call responsibilities as required
• Performs additional duties as required

Required Skills

• Strong leadership skills
• Extensive skills using Microsoft programs
• Comfortable giving presentations and speaking to large groups
• Excellent communication and organizational skills

Required Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety and Health or other related field
• Exposure to conducting Industrial Hygiene sampling for dust/silica, noise, metal fumes and mercury
• Ergonomic experience, preferred
• Work experience in industry (mining industry preferred)
• Experience performing audiometric testing, preferred; CAOHC certification
• CSP, CIH, or CMSP designation, preferred
• Experience in emergency response, preferred
• Certified MSHA instructor, preferred