Health & Safety Engineer

Job Summary

Under the direction of the location EHS Manager, the Health & Safety Engineer will support the daily health and safety functions for the Kawneer facility in Bloomsburg, PA. The Health & Safety Engineer is accountable for ensuring that Health and Safety activities reduce risk, eliminate incidents, and are performed within external regulatory requirements and internal management guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Develop and sustain systems to drive compliance, fatality prevention and injury reduction.
• Act as key health and safety liaison with location manufacturing, maintenance & engineering departments to assist in the execution of their strategic and tactical health and safety plans.
• Analyze injury and incident data and assist line management in the implementation of focused injury reduction efforts.
• Provide expertise to proactively address injury reduction efforts.
• Provide technical expertise and participate in injury / incident investigations to assist in identifying root cause analysis and provide recommendations to prevent recurrence.
• Assume leadership of the location's industrial hygiene program including execution of IH sampling plans, the administration of IH databases and employee exposure records and hazardous material management.
• Select and manage PPE requirements.
• Afford assistance with the completion of designated health and safety ASAT audit protocols and overall process.
• Maintain working knowledge of federal, state and local health and safety regulations and identify all requirements that apply or may apply to the facility.
• Develop, review and facilitate Health & Safety related training.
• Assess, evaluate, eliminate / minimize risks collaboratively with employees using technical knowledge of Health and Safety regulations.
• Afford assistance in investigations of health and safety incidents, root cause analysis, entry into databases and item closure tracking.
• Cook up systems to ensure metrics are accurate and timely per guidelines.
• Afford assistance in implementing Human Performance systems.
• Participate in continuing professional education, staying current and competent in the respective Health & Safety profession through seminars, courses, literature review, etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 1 year of professional experience in Health and Safety in a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in safety, Industrial Hygiene, or Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in Health and Safety in a manufacturing environment.
• Prior Alcoa/ Health & Safety experience.
• Previous Occupational Health & Safety experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience implementing and maintaining Health & Safety programs.
• Industrial Hygiene experience.
• Experience with Behavior Based Safety programs.
• Experience with Ergonomic assessments.
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Skills

• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Experience with Power BI or advanced Excel analytics.
• Experience or exposure to: OSHA standards and Manufacturing or industrial environments.