Environmental, Health, & Safety Engineer

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

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What You'll Do

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

As an EHS Engineer, you will develop into a business partner to help support the business groups’ EHS goals and the path to achieve them, while ensuring corporate EHS goals and legal requirements are being met. You will be responsible for supporting the corporate and regional EHS functions with a primary focus on our KLA locations, and customer footprint in South Korea. This role will be a part of the APAC EHS team and interface regularly with counterparts in other countries.  This is an extraordinary opportunity to join a rapidly growing company with an expanding EHS team. We are looking to bring in motivated and top technical talent to join us on this path!

The person in this role will:

• Provide day to day EHS support for our locations and customer accounts in South Korea.
• Support EHS standards in meeting KLA expectations by providing guidance, assistance, and consultation.
• Report status of EHS matters to facility management and to the KLA EHS manager or director.
• Develop and implement EHS policies, programs, and training.
• Manage mandatory EHS training programs and maintain compliance records.
• Support managers, supervisors, and team leaders in incident investigations, corrective action deployment, and effectiveness evaluations at all KLA locations.
• Ensure the functionality of KLA safety committees.
• Responsible for compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements, customer EHS requirements, customer surveys, and industry group standards.
• Conduct periodic audits related to the EHS management systems, compliance, and company policy/procedure conformance, with special attention to compliance to the Serious Accident Punishment Act (SAPA).
• Complete all required environmental, safety, and other regulatory reports per local requirements.
• Be the EHS subject matter expert for the locations you support with excellent customer service.
• Analyze EHS performance metrics, self-assessments, and trends and respond in a proactive matter to prevent or minimize EHS incidents and monitor program / system status.
• Manage the site-level and customer account risk assessment process.
• Manage chemical safety programs, including chemical inventory control, MSDS management, and regulatory compliance.
• Provide support to our ESG (sustainability) efforts for the sites under your span of control.
• Keep current on regulatory trends and provide updates to location management and corporate EHS as needed.
• Manage contractor and supplier EHS compliance programs across KLA Korea operations.
• Be the key point of contact for customer EHS inquiries, incident investigations, and other reports as needed.
• Develop and implement the site level requirements for our ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 programs.
• Represent KLA EHS in front of our customers. Partner with customer EHS teams to identify and resolve safety issues that could impact the safety of KLA employees.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7-10 years of EHS experience managing multiple locations
• Experience working in a diverse, fast-paced environment
• Must be proficient in MS Office programs
• Excellent project management skills and ability to work to commitments
• Communicate concepts in a succinct and easy to comprehend manner
• Experience with EHS Management Systems (ISO 14001 & ISO 45001) preferred
• Korean Industrial Safety Engineer certification is highly preferred and considered a key qualification.

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Use of AI Statement 

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.

We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.