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    DC Safety Specialist - Elgin, United States - FleetPride

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    Transportation / Logistics
    Description

    The Safety Specialist, reporting to Sr. Mgr. EHS & Compliance, works with DC leadership, and employees to support and enforce policies that protect employees and keep the work environment safe and compliant. The DC Safety Specialist conducts inspections, supports accident investigations, owns, and facilitates safety training, and helps define the safety culture of the organization. Safety Specialists also ensure that safety-related training records, accident reports and other documents are completed and filed appropriately. The successful candidate will be a driven, solutions based, self-starter. They will be the driving force to ensure the facility is maintained in accordance with OSHA requirements, as well as supporting and enforcing policies that ensure a safe and compliant workplace.

    Essential Tasks

    • Assist in implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the workplace to ensure compliance with Company Safety policies to provide a safe and secure workplace for employees, visitors, vendors, and guests.
    • Manage multiple, complex, and essential safety projects from conception to implementation.
    • Perform work task Risk Assessments and develop safety standard work in conjunction with associates.
    • Complete ergonomic assessments on job tasks, incorporating findings into applicable Standard Work.
    • Creates, supports, and implements strategies to establish and improve safety compliance.
    • Coordinate with any outside emergency agency, Fire, Police, Sheriff, OSHA, etc. Develops, evaluates and recommends process and equipment changes and improvements to maximize safety and improve environmental impacts of operations.
    • Act as Emergency Response leader in the case of chemical spills, fire, serious injuries and other unplanned emergency events.
    • Act as the point of contact and lead the efforts for any regulatory visits such as OSHA, Fire Marshal etc..
    • Evaluate jobs and build out JHA and JSA programs. Chair the site Safety Committee.

    Skills

    • Bias for Action: Evaluate, act and communicate in a timely manner.
    • Decision Making: Make timely, practical, and effective decisions using facts, data, and logic to support your reasoning.
    • Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself and other individuals and organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
    • Influence: The ability to produce positive outcomes through others by communicating, training, and coaching.
    • Sound Judgment: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
    • Conflict Management: Ability to effectively resolve high stress situations by understanding all sides of a problem and working with others to develop the best solutions.
    • Communicating: Deliver information to others in an effective and appropriate manner.
    • Active Learning: Understanding the implication of gathering new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
    • Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others to ensure all goals are met.
    • Analysis: Ability to use reporting and mathematics to identify and solve problems.
    • Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
    • Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

    Attributes

    • Integrity: Acting with morals and ethics in all circumstances and maintaining utmost confidentiality
    • Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
    • Oral Comprehension: The ability to understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
    • Written Comprehension: The ability to understand information and ideas presented in writing.
    • Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
    • Originality: The ability to come up with new and different ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
    • Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
    • Problem Sensitivity: The ability to determine when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It involves recognizing there is a problem and resolving it.
    • Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
    • Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

    Physical Demands

    The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

    • Constant walking
    • Frequent sitting and standing
    • Frequent reaching above shoulder heights and below the waist
    • Occasional lifting of items up to 50 pounds.
    • Occasional climbing of ladders

    Atmospheric/Environmental Conditions

    The performance of this position will require exposure to the warehouse areas where certain areas may require the use of personal protective equipment such as steel toed shoes and safety glasses. The primary environment is characterized by non-climate-controlled warehouse work. Work a flexible schedule/shift/work area, including weekends, nights, and/or holidays.

    Qualifications

    Education

    • Bachelor's degree in Safety, Business, Risk Management, or a two-year University degree in Industrial Safety, Environmental Management (or related field), and/or equivalent work experience

    Professional Experience/Competencies

    • Minimum of 2 years of experience in Supply Chain EHS Required.
    • Knowledge of principles of accident prevention, safety, OSHA requirements Required.
    • Knowledge of ergonomic fundamentals preferred.

    Computer Skills

    • Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint.

    Certifications/Licenses

    • OSHA 30 preferred
    • AED & CPR Certified Preferred

    Travel

    • No Travel Requirements

    This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties requested by his or her supervisor.


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