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Consultant, Asbestos Specialist

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The posting

Step into a high-impact consulting role where your expertise in asbestos and field safety helps shape safer environments across complex projects.

ERM is seeking a committed and knowledgeable Consultant, Asbestos Specialist to join our team in Irvine, CA. This role offers a unique opportunity to apply deep technical expertise while expanding your experience across construction, demolition, production safety, air compliance, and contaminated site investigation. You will play a critical role in protecting people, projects, and communities—partnering with clients and multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, compliant, and high-quality outcomes. If you’re motivated by meaningful fieldwork and want to grow within a collaborative, safety-first culture, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact.

Why This Role Matters

This position sits at the center of environmental safety and compliance—ensuring asbestos-related risks are properly identified, managed, and mitigated across complex industrial and construction environments. Your work directly contributes to safer worksites, regulatory compliance, and the success of high-profile remediation and demolition projects.

What Your Impact Is

  • Help ensure safe execution of environmental construction and remediation projects.
  • Safeguard teams by upholding and enforcing health & safety standards.
  • Provide accurate asbestos sampling, reporting, and compliance oversight.
  • Partner with clients to deliver trusted, high-quality environmental solutions.
  • Expand ERM’s impact across multidisciplinary consulting areas.

What You’ll Bring

Required:

  • Bachelors or Degree in Engineering, Geology, Environmental Science or a related discipline; or eight (8) years of equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of experience in asbestos-related projects specifically to industrial sites, large demolition projects, construction safety, air compliance and contaminated site investigation.
  • California Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) Certified Asbestos Consultant (CAC) or Certified Site Surveillance (CSST) Certification, current.
  • California Department of Public Health (CDPH) – Certified Lead Sampling Technician or Certified Lead Inspector / Assessor, current.
  • Strong computer skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CAD, etc.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Willingness to be cross trained in additional health and safety/industrial hygiene work
  • Ability to travel within the southern and central California areas.
  • Driver's License Required: This position requires a valid driver's license and/or the ability to operate a company vehicle due to the nature of job duties, which include frequent travel to various client locations across a large geographical area
  • This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship

Preferred:

  • 40-hour OSHA HAZWOPER training
  • 8-hour OSHA HAZWOPER Supervisor certification
  • CPR/First Aid certification
  • Bloodborne pathogens training
  • Confined space and excavation awareness training
  • Emergency preparedness training
  • Hazard recognition and job hazard analysis experience
  • Incident investigation and root cause analysis experience

Key Responsibilities

  • Serve as Asbestos Field Sampling Technician on assigned site investigation, remediation, and decommissioning/decontamination/demolition environmental construction projects and implement site-specific Health & Safety Plans
  • Ensure appropriate level of PPE is available and properly used, including maintenance and sanitation
  • Collect asbestos samples in accordance with regulatory guidelines and industry best practices
  • Manage sample collection and documentation processes
  • Assist with development of sampling plans, reporting, and review
  • Verify communication systems are in place and functioning
  • Monitor conformance with safety and emergency procedures
  • Conduct daily safety briefings with field teams
  • Oversee maintenance of safety equipment and execute decontamination procedures
  • Monitor site conditions for asbestos clearance sampling
  • Exercise stop-work authority when imminent safety hazards arise and resume work upon proper authorization
  • Conduct behavior-based safety observations and coordinate Event Communication System activity
  • Collect and evaluate safety observations
  • Maintain accurate project and compliance records
  • Support work across related consulting fields including decommissioning, demolition, production safety, construction safety, air compliance, and contaminated site investigation
  • Complete and maintain all required training

If you're ready to bring your asbestos expertise into a broader environmental consulting career while working alongside industry experts in a safety-first culture, this role offers the platform to grow, lead, and make a difference.

For the Consultant, Asbestos Specialist position, the anticipated annual base pay is $77,920–$97,429 (USD). Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. In some cases, pay may fall outside this range. This role may be eligible for bonus pay (casual and fixed term/flex force employees are not bonus eligible).

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and other applicable benefits to eligible employees.

Note: Bonuses, commissions, and other forms of additional compensation are not guaranteed and subject to the sole discretion of ERM and its policies and procedures.

Who We Are: As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.

Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.

ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, ERM employees or any other company location. ERM is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Thank you for your interest in ERM!

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