Safety Coordinator

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Cook up EHS and THM programs
• Ensure EHS program complies with Company, federal, state, and local guidelines
• Follow and enforce all safety regulations
• Conduct THM and EHS compliance audits
• Manage THM and safety records/documentation
• Review current safety training and recommend revisions, improvements, and updates
• Provide EHS training elements to all employees
• Collaborate with management to stop operations and activities that could harm staff or equipment, and address personnel when non-compliance is identified
• Conduct accident investigations
• Effectively lead safety committee team and activities of designated safety personnel
• Instruct and follow-up on the activities of inexperienced employees

Qualifications

• Five (5) years of safety experience required, including experience facilitating an effective EHS program in an industrial setting
• Advanced training or certification in safety preferred
• Possess intermediate knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Internet/Intranet experience preferred
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance procedure manuals
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry

Reasoning Abilities

• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, verbal, diagram or schedule form

Physical Demands

• Have adequate sight, hearing, and use of limbs to safely operate powered vehicles
• Sights capabilities to distinguish proper product identification as well as warning and operational indicators
• Hearing capabilities to distinguish differences in warning alarm indicators and standard operation indicators
• Sight capabilities to identify accuracy and neatness of required job assignments
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl capabilities to handle job requirements
• Balancing to maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching in all areas due to limited direct supervision and/or observation
• Ability to verbally communicate either face to face or via telephone with other fellow employees to accomplish all assigned job requirements
• Climb and descend ladders or steps whether fixed or portable on company facilities in order to access all areas if needed
• Hear and understand verbal communication whether it is face to face or via telephone
• See and understand written communication
• Walking through, under, and around machinery with clearance of 30"
• Activates and uses telephone, calculators as required in assigned job requirements
• Ability to feel objects, size and shape and to determine temperature by touching of skin, primarily by that of the finger tips

Work Environment

• While performing job duties, the employee may be exposed to working around moving machinery and vehicles, inclement weather or other outside environment conditions