Health and Safety Specialist

Great opportunity for an organized and driven individual interested in providing industrial safety support for a large manufacturing facility. The Health and Safety Specialist promotes a positive safety culture while maintaining compliance with OSHA and all other governing standards to maintain a safe and healthy work environment. Inspects machines, designs safe workspaces, and creates policies for workers to follow that minimize job-related hazards. Works with all levels of the organization to continuously improve site safety. Advises management on all issues related to the safety and health of employees.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and enforce a disciplinary action program
• Coordinate or execute necessary or beneficial safety training; maintain records of al trainings conducted
• Develop ways to keep workers and the general public safe from harm
• Ensure safe workspaces
• Conduct regular safety inspections
• Inspect machines and test for faults; remove defective equipment
• Investigate complaints
• Execute initiatives to reduce absenteeism and equipment downtime
• Take steps to lower insurance premiums and workers' compensation payments
• Ensure legal compliance and prevent government fines
• Design and enforce a disciplinary action program
• Design programs to control, eliminate, and prevent disease or injury
• Search for and identify biological, chemical, and radiological hazards
• Advise workers on proper lifting techniques
• Inform an organization's management of areas not in compliance with State and Federal laws or employer policies
• Advise management on the cost and effectiveness of safety and health programs
• Devise and implement health programs
• Provide training on new regulations
• Demonstrate how to recognize hazards; develop methods to predict hazards
• Evaluate current equipment, products, facilities, or processes and those planned for future use
• Analyze data to uncover patterns in injury data
• Evaluate the probability and severity of accidents
• Conduct accident investigations and write accident reports

Required Skills, Education, and Experience:

• 3-5 years minimum experience as a Health and Safety Specialist, or similar position
• Bi-lingual (English and Spanish)
• Experience with the development of comprehensive safety plans and job hazard analysis
• 2+ years’ experience designing & delivering safety training
• Related experience in a manufacturing/distribution environment
• Strong communication and use of Microsoft office platforms to include MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint with the ability to develop PowerPoint presentations
• Demonstrated leadership, interpersonal, communication, and teambuilding skills
• Interpersonal skills to effectively lead, influence, and do work across organizational boundaries, which include maintenance, operations, capital, and contractors
• Self-starter, ability to plan/organize tasks and consistently produce results with minimal supervision