Cherokee Millwright, Inc. Safety Director

About the role

The safety manager provides technical safety and health support to production and corporate personnel. Develops safety and health programs and objectives and coordinates safety training programs. Monitors safety and health regulations and provides technical support to plant and personnel to ensure compliance with federal and state safety and health regulations.

Responsibilities

• Works closely with staff in engineering, human resources, legal, operations, and research and development.
• Provides technical safety and health support and information to production and corporate personnel.
• Prepares written safety and health programs and policies.
• Complies and updates safety databases, including ISN and Avetta, and all intracompany databases.
• Identifies company safety training needs and develops and coordinates safety training programs.
• Organizes, develops, and creates agenda for companywide annual training day.
• Develops annual company safety and health goals.
• Participates in new product/process reviews, including process hazard analyses, operator training, etc.
• Supports corporate/plant engineering to implement engineering controls to minimize safety and occupational health hazards.
• Supports plant personnel in selection of appropriate personal protective equipment.
• Maintains corporate safety library (e.g., videos, regulations, reference manuals).
• Promotes safety and health awareness through internal company memoranda, newsletters and specific training programs.
• Assists as necessary in implementation of a hazard communication program and preparation of reports.
• Reviews process-operating procedures/records and provides input for safety and health considerations.
• Understands federal and state occupational safety and health regulations and monitors regulatory changes as they occur.
• Provides technical support to corporate and plant personnel to ensure compliance with applicable occupational safety and health regulations.
• Advises manufacturing plants and corporate staff of regulatory changes with which the plants must comply, with sufficient advance notice to ensure compliance on the effective date of new regulations.
• Audits practices and records of manufacturing plants to ensure compliance with company programs and federal/state occupational safety and health regulations.
• Monitors lost-time injuries/illnesses and worker’s compensation claims.
• Reviews safety inspection reports and follows up as necessary.
• Reviews injury/illness and noninjury incident investigation reports and follows up as necessary.

Supervisory responsibilities

This position has direct supervisory responsibilities and management of the safety program includes directing safety related activities. Also serves as a coach and mentor for other positions in the department.

Qualifications

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a safety science, engineering or equivalent.
• At least five years of previous experience in safety manager position or higher.

Reasoning ability

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to sit.
• Frequently required to talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Other duties

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.