Safety Associate - OCU - Technical - 1st Shift

Job Summary

Develops, implements, and leads health, safety, environmental, and emergency preparedness programs for a facility.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops and implements pertinent training
• Develops, implements, and leads health, safety, environmental, and emergency preparedness programs
• Maintains health, safety, environmental, and emergency preparedness program
• Understands and implements relevant legal, regulatory, and corporate requirements as defined by agencies (such as, OSHA, EPA, state regulations, corporate requirements, DOC, Department of Homeland Security)
• Co-chairs facility Safety, Health and Wellness Committees; serves as a primary contact for facility health and wellness issues; communicates health and wellness information with facility site management
• Serves as facility Emergency Coordinator; leads facility emergency preparedness for Emergency Response Medical Teams
• Serves as company representatives in various capacities to customers, suppliers, and outside agencies
• Interacts effectively with all levels of employees throughout the company
• Exercises independent decision-making and initiative in determining what needs to be done and planning and implementing the needed activities; performs problem solving, creative technical and analytical work, budget management, and hands on applications; coordinates programs including planning, scheduling, ordering, and tracking
• Demonstrates adaptability and responsiveness to changing work needs and willingness to undertake new tasks as they become evident; initiates, develops, leads, and participates in improvement projects
• Knows and complies with all safety policies and procedures
• Demonstrates confidentiality as required
• Shares work with exempt and other OCU employees as required
• Manages own work and maintain a flexible schedule in order to meet the demands of priority work; participates in self- and team-audits and associated corrective action; plans and engages in continuous learning in order to be prepared for changing work demands
• Travels as required by the position
• Performs other miscellaneous duties, as required, to get the job done

Competencies

• Action oriented
• Courage
• Customer focus
• Demonstrates self-awareness
• Nimble learning
• Optimizes work processes
• Resourcefulness
• Health and Safety Fundamentals
• Health, Safety and Environment Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis
• Health, Safety and Environment Management Systems
• Risk Assessment
• Values differences

Education, Licenses, Certifications

• High school diploma, GED or equivalent required
• Two years of experience/education requirement accomplished through one of the following: Bachelor’s degree, associate’s degree and at least two years of relevant experience, or at least four years of relevant experience required
• Two year degree in Health and Safety Required, bachelors or interest in pursuing a BS/BA preferred
• Associate Safety Professional, Graduate Safety Professional, or Certified Safety Professional preferred
• Experience With Corporate Sponsored HSE Tools Preferred

Additional Information

Fielding technical issues with the tool on the floor and working with the Powerfleet support team. You will re responsible for maintaining existing Accelera Velocity EHS risk assessment (project Heart) entries and entering new risk assessments as they come along. Training tracking and general record keeping for the Accelera functions is a vital responsibility. You may be required to function as a Subject matter expert in the cross functional teams supporting various programs apart of the greater CEP Health and Safety Management system.

Due to the operational nature and specific job duties of this role, work is required to be completed 100% in person/On-site. Cummins and E-Verify At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Cummins validates the right to work using E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Visit EEOC.gov to know your rights on workplace discrimination.