Health & Safety Specialist, Electronics

Health & Safety Specialist, Electronics-26000467

Description

Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. (LG&E) is seeking a Safety and Industrial Health Specialist to join our Electronic Gases EHS team based in Hampton, NJ.

This Safety and Industrial Health Specialist role on our Linde Electronic Gases HSE team provides leadership in Industrial Hygiene and Personnel Safety, serving as technical authority while driving teams to stronger compliance and continuous improvement across assigned operations. This role facilitates our strategic vision of not harming people or the environment. This role proactively identifies risk, leads complex exposure assessments, drives preventive and corrective actions, and influences leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders to achieve best-in-class processes for robust worker health & safety protection and associated regulatory compliance.

Our Electronic Gases business has a diverse portfolio of high purity gases (DOT Class and primarily in cylinders, but also portable tanks and manifolded tube trailers. Our product line continues to expand (including some specialty liquids) to meet our customers’ needs.Scope includes six operations facilities, seven stocking locations, laboratory teams as well as administrative and engineering teams (all in the US).

Safety and Health Specialist for Electronic & Specialty Gases Business:

•Provide robust knowledge of policies, standards, and regulations for IH and personnel safety topics.

•Drive program management and alignment of business practices to corporate standards.

•Support a Goals-driven Health and Personnel Safety improvement culture by generating relevant reports and metrics and engaging with site teams to find best practices.

•Provide training for various health and safety topics. Chemical Hazard Communication and Industrial Hygiene expertise is especially important for this role.Other core aspects align with “Life Safety Rules” topics such as PTW, Elevated Work, PPE, Manual Handling and powered device lifting, Electrical Safety and more.

•Provide direct support to Operations (electronic and specialty gas facilities) and stocking sites. Engage with site teams to be continually prepared for third-party regulatory inspections (OSHA general industry in particular) and Linde internal assessments of personnel safety process and IH compliance.

•Develop competencies of facility managers and HSE Coordinators. Facilitate resources to enhance sustainable health & safety best practices.

•Conduct assessments on HSE topics, including those related to OSHA general industry and others as noted above. Use the designated Linde Global HSE Assessment Management Platform as applicable.

•Support safety-related incident investigation, ensuring clarity of root causes and corrective/preventative action (CAPA) plans. Influence Electronic Gases teams in timely planning and completion of actions to remediate non­conformances or address recommended actions.

•Maintain a thorough knowledge of industrial health and personnel safety practices. Participate in relevant industry-association activity (eg, CGA, AIHA) bringing best practice details back to the business.Use HSE-driven communication to the business for awareness of HSE goals, Lessons-from-Incidents, HSE success examples and more.

•Coordinate with the broader Linde Gas & Equipment business on personnel safety and IH topics to ensure alignment and to build best practices which benefit the broader Linde business.

•Various other assignments as directed

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• degree required (engineering, industrial hygiene, chemistry or similar)

•5 - 10 years of experience in an operations/chemical manufacturing environment

•Excellent knowledge of Federal and State regulations and industry best-practice standards

•Training/Presentation skills to large and small groups.

•Excellent communications skills (oral and digital).Ability to organize present instructional/ informative information.

•Preferred specialty training and experience: Industrial Hygiene in chemical-handling or similar industrial setting; OSHA compliance in industrial operations (with construction safety work as a good supplement). Ergonomics assessment a plus.

•Experience should include Respiratory and Hearing Protection Risk Assessments and associated compliance program management.Also topics such as, but not limited to: PTW, LOTO, Elevated Work, Hot Work, Materials Handling, and Hazard Communication (with GHS classification familiarity).

•Hands-on and acts with a sense of urgency.

•Strong communication and interpersonal skills, must be able to effectively communicate across the organization

•Must be proficient in computer skills including Word, Excel & PowerPoint; able to navigate custom databases

•Self-motivated with the ability to work on teams as well as independently, managing multiple tasks

•Ability to develop and lead small teams.

•Willingness to travel 30-50% as needed.

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain and protect our planet. The company serves a variety of end markets including chemicals & refining, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, and primary metals. Linde's industrial gases are used in countless applications, from life-saving oxygen for hospitals to high­purity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing, hydrogen for clean fuels and much more. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions. , class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in class="staticcontentlinepanel">