Safety Specialist

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops, implements, and manages plant environmental programs
• Conduct Safety Committee Team Meetings
• Afford assistance to management in preparing a variety of EHS presentations
• Regularly communicate health and safety matters to Mgmt. Team and Company
• Keeps informed on current environmental, health and safety regulations and legislation and recommends policy changes
• Conducts risk assessments
• Analyzes accidents and near misses; and searches for patterns to establish corrective actions and reduce the potential for future accidents.
• Develops and conducts/coordinates EHS training
• Completes/maintains required record keeping including MIOSHA, OSHA, DEQ and others
• Maintain site environmental reports and permits
• Conduct site regulatory inspections
• Affords assistance with accident/incident investigations
• Conduct frequent EHS tours/audits of all plant areas and makes recommendations for corrective actions for all environmental, safety and health problems noted
• Conducts new hire EHS orientations
• Affords assistance with the improvement of the plant’s recycling efforts

Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Integrity and Trust
• Comfort Around Higher Management
• Informing

Education and/or Experience

• A four-year degree is required – Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental, Industrial Hygiene or related field.
• Experience may be substituted for degree.
• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in Occupational Health & Safety preferred.

Physical Demands

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• You must notify the company if such an accommodation is needed.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk for most of the 8 hour shift.
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 35 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.

Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving forklifts and pallets.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to outside seasonal weather conditions when loading trucks.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Hearing protection is encouraged.
• The employee must be able to work in the confined space of a semi trailer on a regular basis.
• We also require steel toed shoes and protective eyewear at all times in the plant.