Fab Safety & Emergency Response Expert (Japanese) at Mercor

Fab Safety and Emergency Response Expert (Japanese) | $85/hr | Remote

About the role

Review and create expert content on semiconductor fab hazards, emergency procedures, and safety documentation. This hourly contract role is for Japanese-speaking fab safety and emergency response experts.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years as an EHS engineer, emergency response team (ERT) member, fab facilities or sub-fab engineer, electrical safety engineer, or occupational health nurse/EMT
• Native Japanese speaker or JLPT N1 (N2 acceptable with Japanese fab experience)
• Can read Japanese technical safety documents: SDS (安全データシート), 作業手順書, and safety signage
• Hands-on work inside an operating semiconductor fab, or fab-floor work for a semiconductor equipment or gas supplier
• Direct knowledge of fab hazards: toxic and pyrophoric gases, HF and wet chemicals, gas detection, cleanroom evacuation
• Last fab-floor experience within the past 8 years
• Not office-only, audit-only, or compliance-only EHS work; not construction or general-manufacturing safety without cleanroom or HPM exposure

Preferred qualifications

• Responded to a real fab incident (gas alarm, chemical spill, evacuation, earthquake), or held an ERT or 自衛消防隊 lead role
• Experience at a Japan fab or Japanese equipment maker: JASM/TSMC Kumamoto, Kioxia, Sony Semiconductor, Renesas, Rapidus, Micron Hiroshima, Tokyo Electron, SCREEN, Kokusai
• Knows SEMI S2/S8/S22 tool-safety standards, or facilities experience with utilities, abatement, gas cabinets, or tool hook-up
• Japanese safety certifications such as 衛生管理者, 高圧ガス製造保安責任者, 危険物取扱者, 電気主任技術者 (電験), or 保健師

Pay and schedule

$85/hr, hourly contract. Fully remote.