The Role
The EHS Engineer develops and enforces EHS programs, ensures regulatory compliance, manages hazardous materials, leads audits, and provides safety training in semiconductor environments.
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Summary:
The EHS / Safety Engineer is responsible for maintaining, improving, and enforcing existing Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) and Safety SOPs, as well as developing new programs and SOPs. This role serves as the technical authority for wafer fab safety engineering and ensures regulatory compliance while maintaining strong working relationships and reporting practices with federal, state, and local regulatory agencies.
The EHS / Safety Engineer will partner closely with Operations, Facilities, and Engineering to ensure safe tool operation, process integration, and personnel protection, while aligning all activities with regulatory and company requirements.
Objectives:
- Own and continuously improve Atomica’s EHS and Safety programs across cleanroom, laboratory, and facilities operations.
- Ensure compliance with OSHA/Cal-OSHA, Fire Code, CUPA, DTSC, air permitting (APDC), stormwater, and industrial wastewater requirements.
- Serve as the primary regulatory liaison, leading inspections, audits, agency communications, and follow-up actions.
- Ensure accuracy, integrity, and completeness of environmental and safety reporting, including oversight of laboratory analysis data and routine monitoring.
- Act as the wafer fab safety subject matter expert, supporting tool installations, process changes, job hazard analyses, and risk assessments.
- Develop and implement safety guidelines and controls for new materials, chemistry, tools, and processes.
- Manage and execute hazardous materials and hazardous waste programs.
- Lead incident investigations, root cause analyses, corrective actions, and regulatory reporting.
- Develop and deliver safety training programs, including new-hire orientation and refresher training.
- Own site emergency response and preparedness programs, including fire and gas alarms, spill response, drills, and coordination with emergency responders.
- Identify, monitor, document, and report non-compliance, driving corrective and preventive actions.
Capabilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in EHS, Chemistry, or a related technical discipline; equivalent combinations of education and EHS/Safety experience will be considered.
- 4+ years of EHS and Safety experience in the semiconductor industry; experience in legacy or mature CMOS fabs is a strong advantage.
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently, exercise sound judgment, and influence across all levels of the organization.
- CSP, CIH, CHMM, or similar professional certification preferred.
What Atomica Offers You:
- Amazing growth and learning opportunities in MEMS
- Competitive Health, Vision, Dental Insurance
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) plan with company match
- Continuing education opportunities
- Paid Time Off
- Flexible Spending Account
- Catered in-office lunches
Compensation:
$80,000-$115,000
*Atomica encourages applications from candidates at all levels where pay will be based on experience.*
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in EHS, Chemistry, or a related technical discipline
- 4+ years of EHS and Safety experience in the semiconductor industry
- CSP, CIH, CHMM, or similar professional certification
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The Company
What We Do
Atomica Corp. unleashes the power of Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) to help solve the great problems of our time. Utilizing a uniquely collaborative approach to development and manufacturing, it partners with innovative companies to deliver breakthrough MEMS-based solutions in cloud computing, autonomous vehicles, cell therapy, molecular diagnostics, genomics, 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), and more. Atomica is the largest MEMS foundry in the USA, serving customers from its 130,000 square foot manufacturing campus (with a 30,000 square foot class 100 clean room) in Santa Barbara, California. The company is ISO 9001 certified and ITAR registered. Its extensive experience spans the full spectrum of MEMS, including photonics, sensors, microfluidic biochips, and other micro components
