Emergency Response Engineer 3/4

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Linthicum Heights, MD +1 · Environmental

Northrop Grumman is seeking an Emergency Response Engineer to support their Environmental, Health, Safety, and Fire Protection team. The role involves responding to hazardous materials releases and fires, maintaining emergency equipment, developing training programs, creating Standard Operating Procedures, coordinating with external agencies, leading evacuation teams, reviewing permits, overseeing fire suppression systems, participating in design reviews for safety, collecting ERT statistics, managing ERT budgets, conducting fire safety inspections, and coordinating employee engagement activities. The position also includes inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire alarm and water-based fire suppression systems. A U.S. Government Secret Clearance is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Supporting and responding to hazardous materials releases and fires to mitigate incidents quickly and efficiently to minimize production down-time as well as assisting in recovery efforts
  2. Maintaining emergency response equipment and keeping consumable inventory response ready
  3. Developing and implementing training for the emergency response team (including CPR/AED First Aid, HAZWOPER, etc)
  4. Developing site-specific Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Pre-Plans for both specific materials and locations, to ensure emergency preparedness
  5. Coordinating with outside emergency response teams and agencies

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years of experience in EHS, emergency response, fire service, or related experience; or a Master’s degree with 3 years of experience in EHS, emergency response, fire service, or related experience; or 9 years of experience in EHS, emergency response, fire service, or related experience may be accepted in lieu of Bachelor's degree
  • Ability to undergo annual medical surveillance and acquire medical certification for the use of a self-contained breathing apparatus
  • Ability to respond to fire and hazardous materials incidents in a timely manner inclusive of non-working hours
  • Local to the site for supporting the site’s emergency response team
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret Clearance
  • U.S. Citizenship required

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree in Fire Science, or related field
  • Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) Technician Certification, Hazardous Materials Incident Commander and/or Hazardous Materials (Hazmat) Specialist Certifications
  • Firefighter I, Fire Inspector I, and Fire Service Instructor I
  • Fire Officer II
  • A good working knowledge of applicable federal, state and local codes
  • A comprehensive understanding of chemical substances, acids, toxic materials, liquids, gases and solids including their potential hazards
  • Experience in conducting in-person training
  • First Aid/CPR Instructor
  • HAZWOPER Instructor
  • Active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret clearance

What the JD emphasized

  • site’s emergency response team
  • site’s emergency response team
  • U.S. Government Secret Clearance