Junior Design Review/Construction Safety Professional

The Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is seeking a Junior Design Review/Construction Safety Professional to join the Operations Support Team. Working under specific direction and close technical review, this role provides Prevention through Design (PtD) and EHS design-review support across facility, infrastructure, construction, and maintenance projects. The primary purpose is to help project teams identify foreseeable lifecycle hazards early and incorporate practical controls into planning, design, procurement, construction documents, commissioning, operations, maintenance, and eventual decommissioning. In this role, you will apply foundational health and safety knowledge to well-defined, routine-to-moderately scoped design reviews using established criteria, checklists, drawings, specifications, hazard registers, and project systems. You will document comments, track resolution, support coordination with EHS subject-matter experts, and promptly escalate complex or high-risk matters. Additionally, you will perform routine construction-safety field assurance and limited industrial-hygiene support within established qualifications and under technical oversight. We're here for the same mission, to bring science solutions to the world. Join our team and YOU will play a supporting role in our goal to address global challenges! Have a high level of impact and work for an organization associated with 17 Nobel Prizes! Why join Berkeley Lab? We invest in our employees by offering a total rewards package you can count on: Exceptional health and retirement benefits, including pension or 401K-style plans Opportunities to grow in your career - check out our Tuition Assistance Program A culture where you’ll belong - we are invested in our teams! In addition to accruing vacation and sick time, we also have a Winter Holiday Shutdown every year. Parental bonding leave (for both mothers and fathers) Pet insurance You will: Prevention through Design and Project Design Review (60%) Support EHS reviews of project concepts, programming documents, schematic and design-development packages, construction documents, and significant design changes using established criteria and checklists. Review routine drawings, specifications, design narratives, equipment layouts, workflows, access provisions, and related documents to identify foreseeable health and safety hazards and opportunities for early risk reduction. Apply the hierarchy of controls, prioritizing hazard elimination, substitution, and engineering controls over administrative controls and personal protective equipment. Evaluate hazards across the asset lifecycle, including construction, installation, testing, commissioning, operation, inspection, maintenance, repair, emergency response, and decommissioning. Assess routine design considerations involving access and egress, work at heights, material handling, hazardous energy, electrical clearances, guarding, ventilation, chemicals, noise, ergonomics, confined spaces, and maintainability. Support design hazard analyses, risk registers, checklists, decision logs, and other records documenting hazards, recommended controls, responsible parties, and resolution status. Enter actionable review comments in Bluebeam, Smartsheet, or other project systems and track responses, revisions, and closure under senior technical review. Participate in design charrettes, design, constructability, and readiness reviews, and project coordination meetings as assigned. Identify required EHS disciplines, route questions to appropriate subject-matter experts, compile multidisciplinary input, and track comments to resolution. Help verify that accepted EHS controls are incorporated into drawings, specifications, equipment requirements, procurement documents, work packages, commissioning plans, and other enforceable project documents. Use field observations, incident trends, lessons learned, and recurring deficienc…

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