Contract Medical Professionals Needed to Support COVID Rapid Antigen Screening at Manufacturing / Pharmaceutical Facilities

The EI Group, Inc. (EI), a full-service supplier of health, safety, and environmental consulting/training services, has supported our industry client base throughout the southeastern US since 1988. Beginning early 2020, EI refocused our occupational health and industrial hygiene services from the evaluation of workplace exposure to physical agents (noise, airborne contaminants, radiation, etc.) to biological agents, specifically services which minimize the occupational transmission of COVID-19. These services include employee workplace screening to identify employees who are potential coronavirus carriers from their vehicles as they arrive or depart from work. EI’s COVID screening support includes administration of a questionnaire to identify symptomatic employees or those workers who had potential contact with COVID carriers and infrared body temperature screening of industrial employees. As COVID rapid antigen tests finally became available for workplace screening in late 2020, EI responded to the demand by our clients to better identify asymptomatic employees who carry the coronavirus by adding periodic, on-site antigen screening of their workforce. 

Based on the demand by our clients for workplace screening of employees, the EI Group (EI) is searching for contract medical professionals to support COVID Rapid Antigen screening at Manufacturing/Pharmaceutical facilities. These professionals include Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Paramedics and First Responders with prior occupational health experience.  Qualified candidates must possess the background experience, entrepreneurial initiative, and demeanor to support EI’s continued expansion into consulting services focused on preventing the occupational transmission of COVID.   

Specific Duties and Responsibilities: 

Manage on-site occupational COVID screening operations at manufacturing operations, typically a staff of 5-10 technicians. Serve as the liaison between Human Resources and the EI Group. 

Evaluate employee responses to COVID questionnaire to determine if they had prior contact with a potential COVID carrier or exhibit symptoms related to a potential COVID infection 

Screen employees as the arrive to work via infrared temperature scan, using the New Rochelle Incident Command protocol which involves monitoring forehead temperature and administering questionnaire from employee vehicles as they arrive to work 

Administer rapid COVID antigen tests (sourced from a wide variety of pharmaceutical manufacturers) to manufacturing employees. 

Provide consultation to COVID + employees identified through COVID screening operations. Triage with facility Occupational Health or Human Resources for those employees identified as COVID carriers through rapid antigen testing and provide follow-up for subsequent PCR screening confirmation by a certified laboratory. 

Track COVID carriers identified in the workplace to assure they have sufficiently quarantined per CDC guidelines. Provide and manage contract tracing of COVID positive employees. 

Contract medical professionals will be compensated on an hourly basis, with hourly rate based on experience and background. Working schedule is flexible from 20-40 hours/week. 

Benefit packages available. If you are interested in becoming a contributing member of our team, please forward your resume to careers@ei1.com today!