Overview & Essential Job Functions
Position Summary:
Provide safety and risk management leadership, teamwork, coordination, and expertise across divisional and/or regional operations to help ensure sharing of best practices and/or preferred procedures. Position helps to ensure the company maintains compliance with federal, state, and local laws/regulations and internal policies and procedures.
Essential Job Functions:
- Leadership: Work in conjunction with the Director of Safety and liaise with management to develop and implement specific and measurable risk management objectives that support the division in achieving safety performance excellence. This includes, ensuring that assessments, audits, and inspections are carried out at regular intervals and appropriate key performance indicators are identified, measured, and maintained.
- Employee Training: Responsible to facilitate, document, and ensure management, supervisors, and other employees receive the company’s required safety training at their assigned location. Conduct safety meetings and/or safety training for employee development. Mentor other safety professionals in the areas of OSHA, DOT, EPA, and Hazardous Materials Transportation management. Conduct train-the trainer sessions for key employees.
- Inspections, Field Observations, Investigations, and Safety Processes: Conduct safety assessments, inspections and field observations within assigned area. Assist with routine updates to company safety training programs, policies, and procedures. Respond to general branch inquiries regarding safety processes and training materials. Investigate incidents and near miss/hits and perform root cause analysis, when necessary. Follow-up on remedial action item(s) to help ensure processes are refined and continual improvements are made and/or sustained.
- Transportation Safety Compliance: Work closely and take direction from fleet management professionals to provide information and data regarding DOT roadside inspections and related fleet maintenance matters. Is responsible to work with others to ensure driver qualification files are kept up to date and compliant. Routinely inspects and trains others on DOT hours of service, driver fitness, roadside inspections, and related DOT matters. Conduct driver ride-along and coaching; perform defensive driving training and implement follow-up actions as needed.
- Claims, Employee Injuries, and Medical Interface: Routinely interface with claims team, and third party administrators (TPA) on workers’ compensation matters or auto claims management. Work with claim professionals on a regular basis to ensure adherence with special TPA account procedures. Actively assist others to manage employee injuries working closely with claims team. Detect potential problems or trends that require additional research and refer to the Director of Safety for further assistance and/or direction.
Qualifications & Environmental Demands
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Safety Management; Environmental Health & Safety or any other related field.
- Ability to identify trends and implement best practices in a manner that drives exceptional performance.
- Must be able to articulate, build consensus for, and effectively implement solutions.
- Effective presentation and facilitation skills with experience presenting ideas and concepts to diverse audiences including senior executives.
- Strong ability to work in changing environment, see through complexity.
- Demonstrated successful experience working in a demanding, high performance work environment and team- oriented culture.
- Must be able to think and act strategically, but also be willing to “roll up sleeves” to handle activities within the function.
- Insightful understanding of behavior-based safety; grasps concepts and implications of emerging trends.
- Ability to manage personnel through strong leadership skills and to motivate/coach personnel.
- Superior knowledge of and experience with the OSHA and DOT regulatory requirements.
- Knowledge of DOT, OSHA and other applicable health and safety standards.
- Required to drive to different locations to promote, inspect, coach and train others on safety and risk management systems, policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Excellent computer skills with the ability to proficiently use the Microsoft Office.
- Excellent time management skills and team orientated.
- Valid driver’s license and good driving history with reliable transportation and the ability to travel.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bilingual – English/Spanish
- Certified Occupational Health & Safety Technologist (OHST), Certified Safety Professional (CSP
- Minimum of two years of safety leadership experience in the waste management industry or transportation industry.
- Prior experience in the solid waste or transportation industry
- A professional safety certification through a nationally recognized safety organization, such as the National Safety Council.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations.
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