Environmental, Health, and Safety Specialist

As an Environmental, Health, and Safety Specialist (EHS Specialist), you'll play a vital role in keeping Virginia Tech residential and dining spaces a safe and healthy environment. Your work directly impacts the Hokie experience by ensuring that students have a safe, comfortable, and healthy living environment to live and learn in. From conducting routine building walkthroughs, to inspecting fire extinguishers, exit signs, and emergency lights to conducting pest control treatments and mold surveys, you'll help maintain the spaces where students live, study, and build lifelong memories.
Through your efforts, you'll assist students with their needs in dorm rooms and living areas, making a real difference in their day-to-day lives.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Carry out pest control inspections and treatments
• Inspect fire extinguishers, exit lights, and emergency lights
• Conduct mold surveys and remediation efforts
• Conduct asbestos and lead sampling

• Highschool diploma or equivalent
• Ability to work independently

• Commercial Applicator Pest Control Licensure
• Registered Pest Control Technician Licensure
• Mold survey and remediation experience
• Asbestos and Lead-Based Paint experience

3

Non-Exempt: Eligible for overtime

Regular

Pay $50,000-$55,000/year and commensurate with experience

40

August 4, 2025

Previous applicants to this position will not need to reapply in this posting.

The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check as well as a driving check with a safe driving record.

Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on, transdisciplinary approach to preparing scholars to be leaders and problem-solvers. A comprehensive land-grant institution that enhances the quality of life in Virginia and throughout the world, Virginia Tech is an inclusive community dedicated to knowledge, discovery, and creativity. The university offers more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of more than 36,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in eight undergraduate colleges, a school of medicine, a veterinary medicine college, Graduate School, and Honors College. The university has a significant presence across Virginia, including the Innovation Campus in Northern Virginia; the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke; sites in Newport News and Richmond; and numerous Extension offices and research centers. A leading global research institution, Virginia Tech conducts more than $500 million in research annually.

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