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Certified Industrial Hygienist roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, where your employer files on your behalf to establish permanent residency. Demand for CIH-credentialed professionals in manufacturing, construction, and energy sectors makes sponsorship a realistic path for qualified foreign candidates.
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Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states: Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy.
Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition. We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond. Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.
Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model to enable collaboration and flexibility. Many roles are expected to work onsite three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday); however, work location expectations vary based on role, team, and business needs.
Position Summary
Designs and develops safety programs, policies, and procedures. Provides professional consulting across the company. Monitors, interprets, analyzes and communicates federal, state, OSHA and other related rules and regulations. Designs and develops improvement strategy/plans. Conducts health risk assessments and audits. Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments. Consults with management in highly unique or unusual situations.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provides corporate oversight, overall program management and leads the development of initiatives. Takes the initiative in developing company response for new safety & health programs.
- Represents the company in depositions and legal issues. Provides work direction and mentors other team members including professional and hourly employees, in helping them understand their assignments and technical requirements.
- Consults on complex safety & health initiatives and serve as subject matter expert resource for others. Leads cross functional teams. Provides assistance and direction when required for effective team functioning. May serve as acting supervisor when required, such as time reporting requirements, expense approval, etc.
- Administers special projects including but not limited to contractor oversight, ventilation requirements, and budgeting activities. Identify and select qualified abatement/demolition contractors for industrial hygiene projects to drive excellence and safety priorities. Experience as a technical liaison with regulatory agencies during project permitting process and close-out.
- Identifies, recommends and implements (under direction of management) initiatives/programs to support achievement of business area and corporate objectives. Collaborates with Investment Recovery to ensure demolition and salvage recycling contractors are OSHA compliant and operating safely while obtaining the most value from project recycling.
- Acts as the regulatory compliance subject matter expert in the area of safety & health. Analyzes data, reviews initial responses developed by Consultant and Senior Consultant. Reviews and develops response for highly complex regulation. Recommends policy and procedural changes based on regulatory requirements. Interprets new and proposed regulations and recommends response.
- Serves as subject matter expert regarding industrial hygiene, health or environmental hazard training, presents final training materials to management for approval and implementation.
- Conducts and reviews complex health audits, industrial hygiene surveys, assessments and inspections, exposure monitoring, medical surveillance and engineering controls. Investigations - Independently conducts and coordinates highly complex, extremely serious and/or highly confidential investigations. Provides oversight on other investigations.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Business or related discipline required. Master's degree in Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Health with an emphasis in Industrial Hygiene or closely related field from an ABET Accredited University Program preferred.
- Minimum 10-15 years of Industrial Hygiene related experience. ABIH Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) certification AND Certified Safety Professional (CSP) required.
- Experience as a technical liaison with regulatory agencies during project permitting process and close-out.
Our culture is grounded in shared values and employee commitments that guide how we work, support one another, and grow together.
OUR VALUES
Connected, Committed, Trustworthy, Safe
OUR EMPLOYEE COMMITMENTS
- Work that makes a difference
- A team you can count of
- Opportunities to grow
- Rewards that help you thrive
Xcel Energy provides job applicants reasonable accommodations for disabilities throughout the application process. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, now or at any time in the future, please complete the Applicant Accommodation Request Form.
Non-Bargaining
The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $97,600.00 to $138,600.00 per year
This position is eligible for the following benefits: Annual Incentive Program, Medical/Pharmacy Plan, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA), Transportation Reimbursement Account, Short-term disability (STD), Long-term disability (LTD), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Tuition reimbursement, Transit programs, Employee recognition program, Pension, 401(k) plan, Paid time off (PTO), Holidays, Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO), Parental Leave
Benefit plans are subject to change and Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.
In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information including but not limited to dates of school attendance and graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Deadline to Apply: 11/28/26
EEO is the Law (PDF) | Equal Opportunity Statement (PDF) | Employee Rights (PDF)
All Xcel Energy employees and contractors share responsibility for protecting the company's information and systems by adhering to cybersecurity policies, standards, and best practices, recognizing that cybersecurity is everyone's responsibility.
ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT
Xcel Energy endeavors to make https://www.xcelenergy.com and https://jobs.xcelenergy.com accessible to any and all users. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, now or at any time in the future, please complete the Applicant Accommodation Request Form. For any other application related questions, including application follow-ups or technical issues, please use our Recruiting Assistance, Electra, for assistance. Electra can be found in the lower right-hand corner of our Xcel Energy Careers site.
INTRODUCTION
Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states: Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy.
Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition. We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond. Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.
Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model to enable collaboration and flexibility. Many roles are expected to work onsite three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday); however, work location expectations vary based on role, team, and business needs.
Position Summary
Designs and develops safety programs, policies, and procedures. Provides professional consulting across the company. Monitors, interprets, analyzes and communicates federal, state, OSHA and other related rules and regulations. Designs and develops improvement strategy/plans. Conducts health risk assessments and audits. Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments. Consults with management in highly unique or unusual situations.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provides corporate oversight, overall program management and leads the development of initiatives. Takes the initiative in developing company response for new safety & health programs.
- Represents the company in depositions and legal issues. Provides work direction and mentors other team members including professional and hourly employees, in helping them understand their assignments and technical requirements.
- Consults on complex safety & health initiatives and serve as subject matter expert resource for others. Leads cross functional teams. Provides assistance and direction when required for effective team functioning. May serve as acting supervisor when required, such as time reporting requirements, expense approval, etc.
- Administers special projects including but not limited to contractor oversight, ventilation requirements, and budgeting activities. Identify and select qualified abatement/demolition contractors for industrial hygiene projects to drive excellence and safety priorities. Experience as a technical liaison with regulatory agencies during project permitting process and close-out.
- Identifies, recommends and implements (under direction of management) initiatives/programs to support achievement of business area and corporate objectives. Collaborates with Investment Recovery to ensure demolition and salvage recycling contractors are OSHA compliant and operating safely while obtaining the most value from project recycling.
- Acts as the regulatory compliance subject matter expert in the area of safety & health. Analyzes data, reviews initial responses developed by Consultant and Senior Consultant. Reviews and develops response for highly complex regulation. Recommends policy and procedural changes based on regulatory requirements. Interprets new and proposed regulations and recommends response.
- Serves as subject matter expert regarding industrial hygiene, health or environmental hazard training, presents final training materials to management for approval and implementation.
- Conducts and reviews complex health audits, industrial hygiene surveys, assessments and inspections, exposure monitoring, medical surveillance and engineering controls. Investigations - Independently conducts and coordinates highly complex, extremely serious and/or highly confidential investigations. Provides oversight on other investigations.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Business or related discipline required. Master's degree in Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Health with an emphasis in Industrial Hygiene or closely related field from an ABET Accredited University Program preferred.
- Minimum 10-15 years of Industrial Hygiene related experience. ABIH Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) certification AND Certified Safety Professional (CSP) required.
- Experience as a technical liaison with regulatory agencies during project permitting process and close-out.
Our culture is grounded in shared values and employee commitments that guide how we work, support one another, and grow together.
OUR VALUES
Connected, Committed, Trustworthy, Safe
OUR EMPLOYEE COMMITMENTS
- Work that makes a difference
- A team you can count of
- Opportunities to grow
- Rewards that help you thrive
Xcel Energy provides job applicants reasonable accommodations for disabilities throughout the application process. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, now or at any time in the future, please complete the Applicant Accommodation Request Form.
Non-Bargaining
The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $97,600.00 to $138,600.00 per year
This position is eligible for the following benefits: Annual Incentive Program, Medical/Pharmacy Plan, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA), Transportation Reimbursement Account, Short-term disability (STD), Long-term disability (LTD), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Tuition reimbursement, Transit programs, Employee recognition program, Pension, 401(k) plan, Paid time off (PTO), Holidays, Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO), Parental Leave
Benefit plans are subject to change and Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.
In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information including but not limited to dates of school attendance and graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Deadline to Apply: 11/28/26
EEO is the Law (PDF) | Equal Opportunity Statement (PDF) | Employee Rights (PDF)
All Xcel Energy employees and contractors share responsibility for protecting the company's information and systems by adhering to cybersecurity policies, standards, and best practices, recognizing that cybersecurity is everyone's responsibility.
ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT
Xcel Energy endeavors to make https://www.xcelenergy.com and https://jobs.xcelenergy.com accessible to any and all users. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, now or at any time in the future, please complete the Applicant Accommodation Request Form. For any other application related questions, including application follow-ups or technical issues, please use our Recruiting Assistance, Electra, for assistance. Electra can be found in the lower right-hand corner of our Xcel Energy Careers site.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Certified Industrial Hygienist
Align your CIH credential with PERM requirements
PERM requires your employer to document that the job duties genuinely require your specific qualifications. A CIH credential combined with a degree in industrial hygiene, occupational health, or a related field strengthens the minimum requirements definition and reduces audit risk.
Target industries with recurring PERM filing patterns
Manufacturing, petrochemical, construction, and federal contracting firms sponsor industrial hygienists most frequently. Search OFLC PERM disclosure data by SOC code 29-9011 to identify employers who have certified hygienist roles before, then focus your applications there.
Search green card sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Certified Industrial Hygienist roles by employers with active EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship history. This cuts the time spent researching which companies will actually support a PERM filing versus those that won't.
Clarify EB-2 versus EB-3 eligibility before your offer
If the role requires a master's degree or you hold an advanced degree, negotiate for EB-2 classification, which skips PERM's wage-level constraints for advanced-degree professionals. EB-3 works for bachelor's-level positions but typically involves longer priority date waits for high-demand countries.
Confirm your employer uses E-Verify before accepting
Federal contractors and many large industrial employers must use E-Verify for employment authorization. Confirming your prospective employer is already enrolled avoids delays once USCIS approves your I-140 and you move toward adjustment of status.
Use the OFLC Wage Search to verify your prevailing wage tier
PERM requires your offered wage to meet or exceed the prevailing wage DOL certifies for your location and experience level. Run the OFLC Wage Search for SOC 29-9011 in your target metro before negotiations so you can identify whether your offer will satisfy DOL's wage requirements.
Green Card Certified Industrial Hygienist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Certified Industrial Hygienist role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Certified Industrial Hygienist positions can qualify for either category depending on how the employer defines the role. EB-3 covers roles requiring a bachelor's degree in industrial hygiene, safety, or a related field. EB-2 applies when the position requires a master's degree or equivalent advanced credentials. Your employer's attorney drafts the job description to match the appropriate category, so the framing of minimum requirements matters significantly.
How is the PERM green card process different from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary status with a two-year initial period and lottery risk for cap-subject petitions. PERM-based green card sponsorship leads to permanent residency with no annual lottery and no cap at the EB-3 level for most countries. The PERM process is slower, often taking 12 to 24 months from labor certification through I-140 approval, but the outcome is a path to lawful permanent residency rather than repeated visa renewals.
How do I find employers who will actually sponsor a green card for this position?
Most job postings don't specify green card sponsorship, so identifying willing employers requires research. Migrate Mate filters Certified Industrial Hygienist listings by employers with documented EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship history, so you can focus on companies already familiar with the PERM process rather than educating a first-time sponsor from scratch.
What role does the CIH credential play in a PERM application?
The ABIH's CIH certification is an industry-recognized professional credential, but PERM's minimum requirements must be tied to education and experience rather than professional certifications alone. Your employer can list CIH certification as a preferred or required qualification in the job description, which helps demonstrate the specialized nature of the role and supports an EB-2 advanced-degree classification if combined with a relevant master's degree.
Can my employer start the PERM process while I'm on an H-1B or OPT?
Yes. PERM labor certification can run concurrently with active H-1B or OPT employment. Many employers begin PERM filings early to lock in a priority date, since processing at DOL currently takes 12 to 18 months for standard applications. Filing early protects against future backlogs, particularly for candidates from countries like India or China where EB-3 priority dates move slowly.