Safety Engineer I — Semiconductor Construction

Company: Global Hire

Location: Arizona, United States

Job type: Full-time · On-site

Pay USD: 30.00 per hour (starting rate)

Read this before you apply

Two requirements, and both are disqualifying.

The first: you need an engineering degree. A bachelor’s degree in engineering. Not a technical diploma, not a certificate in occupational health and safety, and not experience alone no matter how long. This is a requirement of the immigration category used to enter the United States, not our preference, and there is no way around it.

The second: working English. You will coordinate with contractors, supervisors and auditors who do not speak Spanish, on a site where a misunderstood instruction is expensive. We verify it during the process, and the consulate verifies it again. If your English will not carry a technical conversation, don’t apply yet — come back when it will.

If you meet both, keep reading.

What this is

Arizona is building semiconductor fabrication plants. These are among the largest and most heavily regulated industrial projects in the United States: thousands of workers on site, dozens of contractors at once, and electrical, chemical, mechanical and ultra-clean systems being installed in parallel, against a schedule measured in days.

Fab construction sits at the top of the safety profession. The standards are stricter than almost anything you have worked under, the engineering controls are more sophisticated, and the documentation is audited constantly. Two or three years inside a project like this will teach you more than a decade on ordinary sites — and it is experience that is recognized anywhere, including back home.

What you will do

• Risk analysis. Assess the hazards of each activity before it begins, applying engineering criteria: hazard identification, consequence analysis and the hierarchy of controls.
• Design and verification of engineering controls.
• Fall protection, shoring and excavation support, lockout/tagout, confined space entry, rigging and lifts, temporary electrical installations.
• Document review. Review contractors’ job safety plans against applicable regulation and project specifications, and return them corrected.
• Field verification. Walk the site to confirm that what is installed matches what was designed and authorized. Incident investigation.
• Determine root cause and propose the control that prevents recurrence. Data. Collect and analyze project safety indicators, and identify where risk is concentrating. Training. Deliver inductions and technical safety briefings to contractor personnel.
• You report to the project safety lead and work alongside the construction engineers, not separately from them.

What you need

A bachelor’s degree in engineering — industrial, civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical or related — with your professional license. 1 to 3 years of experience in industrial safety, construction or industrial process environments. Working English, spoken and written. Verified during the process. Willingness to relocate to Arizona and work full-time on site. A Mexican valid passport.

Certifications

Required before you start on site, or within your first 90 days:

• OSHA 30-Hour Construction First Aid / CPR / AED
• Valued, and supported once you are on the team:
• Associate Safety Professional (ASP) — Board of Certified Safety Professionals NFPA 70E, electrical safety in the workplace HAZWOPER 40-Hour Competent Person: fall protection, confined space, excavation Rigging and crane safety

If you don’t hold the required ones yet, say so in your application. It is not a reason to rule you out — it is a step we plan for before your start date.

What we offer

USD 30.00 per hour as a starting rate, in an engineering role with a defined path to Safety Engineer II and III as the project advances. Experience on semiconductor construction — a sector building capacity for the next decade, and the single strongest line you can add to an industrial safety résumé.

Training under United States safety standards, with certifications that remain yours and remain valuable wherever you work next. Full visa support: file preparation, employer letter and consular interview coaching, at no cost to you. A technical safety team you can learn from, rather than an isolated position.

One honest note about timing: several weeks, sometimes months, pass between accepting the offer and starting work. There is documentation, a consulate and dates that are not ours to control. We don’t promise timelines we can’t keep.

Selection process

Application and verification of your engineering degree. If there is no engineering degree, it stops here. Recorded video interview, partly in English. Technical interview with Safety Excellence Group. Offer. Visa file and consular appointment.