Safety Specialist I - Sr

About the role

The Safety Specialist I - Sr position at Entergy is tasked with examining the workplace/worksite for environmental or physical factors that could affect employee and/or contract partner health, safety, comfort, and performance. This role involves conducting risk assessments, safety analyses, job site reviews, and coaching to ensure the workplace/worksite is as safe as possible.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure effective implementation of safety programs in accordance with management system elements.
• Conduct training as necessary to ensure applicable rules, procedures, and expectations are understood.
• Conduct engagements and observations with employees and contract partners providing immediate coaching on safe and unsafe conditions observed.
• Lead, plan and schedule field and site inspections, document deficiencies, and develop sustainable solutions to prevent repeat findings.
• Lead the incident investigation process including root cause analysis and identification of corrective actions.
• Set and reinforce safe work expectations in accordance with applicable laws, rules, procedures, and expectations.
• Review safety related data and metrics to identify trends and recommend corrective actions to address any issues identified.
• Stop work if there is any unsafe condition.
• Provide mentoring to other safety professionals.
• Take an active role in the planning of upcoming work to help identify potential safety issues and solutions.

Requirements

• Minimum Education: Bachelor Preferred for Safety Specialist Senior, Bachelor Preferred for Safety Specialist Lead.
• Minimum Experience: 6-10 years industry experience with a minimum of 3 years in safety for Safety Specialist Senior, 10+ years industry experience with a minimum of 4 years in safety for Safety Specialist Lead.
• Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Working knowledge of construction and general industry safety regulations, ability to observe and engage with employees and contract partners, investigation/RCA with tools such as TapRoot, Cause Mapping, Fishbone, Five whys, etc., skilled in analyzing and interpreting data to identify trends, ability to interact with customers and members of the public in a pleasant and tactful manner, ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities, strong oral and written communication skills, excellent organizational skills, ability to work irregular hours and out of town assignments as required.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education: Any Level Degree Preferred for Safety Specialist I, Any Level Degree Preferred for Safety Specialist II, Bachelor Preferred for Safety Specialist III.
• Minimum Experience: 0-2 years work experience for Safety Specialist I, 2-4 years industry and/or safety experience preferred for Safety Specialist II, 4-6 years industry and/or safety experience preferred for Safety Specialist III.
• Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Working knowledge of construction and general industry safety regulations, ability to observe and engage with employees and contract partners, investigation/RCA with tools such as TapRoot, Cause Mapping, Fishbone, Five whys, etc., skilled in analyzing and interpreting data to identify trends, ability to interact with customers and members of the public in a pleasant and tactful manner, ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities, strong oral and written communication skills, excellent organizational skills, ability to work irregular hours and out of town assignments as required.

Skills

• Working knowledge of construction and general industry safety regulations.
• Ability to observe and engage with employees and contract partners.
• Investigation/RCA with tools such as TapRoot, Cause Mapping, Fishbone, Five whys, etc.
• Skilled in analyzing and interpreting data to identify trends.
• Ability to interact with customers and members of the public in a pleasant and tactful manner.
• Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to work irregular hours and out of town assignments as required.

Benefits

Entergy offers competitive benefits packages, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Onsite work schedule is provided.

Accessibility

Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click here and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

Additional Responsibilities

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.